Russian special military operation in Ukraine #39

@JohninMK article

Our aviation began to suffer losses. Basically, from the portable anti-aircraft missile systems of the Stinger type delivered to Ukraine (the Stingers themselves have not yet been used). It turned out that we had nothing to oppose to the massive use of MANPADS. It did not work out to use the Syrian version of front-line aviation, our strike aviation - Su-27, Su-35, Su-34 and Su-24.

In Syria, the militants had very few MANPADS.

Arkanghelsk
From a real expert, not some clowns talking nonsense

He already mentioned a goddamned coordinated SEAD campaign

Which was initiated at the beginning of SMO, but for reasons unknown, although he speculates lack of unity of forces - ended without much fare

In any case the VKS absorbed PVO SV , so the beloved ground forces were stripped of command over the PVO

And now the airforce will have unified radar , by viewing what SHORADS and VSHORADS are seeing so that our planes are not ambushed

And yes, what he says is very easy to understand if you're not a fucking idiot

Fighting the VSU like some ww1 reverie is not smart nor is it doing the task of "negating their ability to resupply the front line"

It just turns every battle into a Mariupol or a Bakhmut

With airpower, you can come in and Blitz these forces out of their entrenchments and clean them up without expending so much artillery

Imo , the VKS made a point to the Armed forces by staying quiet

Artillery, in this day and age, will not do it alone

Sorry for you outdated cheerleaders and humanitarians - who do not want to hurt civilians, but spend 20,000 shells a day in pointless exchanges with an inferior enemy

andalusia wrote:I have been busy doing other things but I want to know is the war about to come to an end and has Russia defeated the Ukraine?

This just falls within the whole "China supplying weapons to Russia" mantra. Similar to North Korea, Iran

The Iranian drone story is still up in the air as well. No one actually has a shred of evidence it was indeed coming from Iran or if Russia was indeed just building their own on same design, or what not. We don't know what was on the planes between the countries.

But China won't risk that currently.

What evidence does he need to provide?

The results speaks for themselves

10s of lost su34, su25, su30, ka52,

And now they stopped losing planes, why? Because they stopped flying over the frontline- definitely not due to lack of juicy targets

the VKS just took over the ground forces air defense, and will establish their own priorities in the SMO -

Which is excellent, all air defense means should be subordinated to the VKS , not the other way around. Those army monkeys are stuck in ww1 - and it has jeopardized Russia, allowing missile and drone strikes on Engels, Saki, Belbek, Saratov, Rostov

Those assets were being wasted on the army , now the airforce can concentrate on other tasks with control of the PVO

My guess is they will plug the gaps in air defense coverage with the Buk and TOR batteries they're going to get

This will mean that not one drone or missile will get to Belgorod

And now the fighters and bombers can be directed towards actually demilitarizing Ukraine - not wasting Kalibr on some transformers