Russian special military operation in Ukraine #55

Jokes aside the Zircon is not declared operational yet right?

Cirkon was found to be very efficient. It is already accepted for service. Currently, not only on ships but also on land launchers from which Kiev was attacked.

hypersonic missiles with European SAMP/T and U.S. Patriot systems

Even their developers say that they can´t.

could indicate a shortage of other types of missiles.

2 years after the first statement Russia is running out of missiles again. 

n order to find weaknesses in Ukrainian air defenses

They already found some weak "spots". Like the Kharkov region. Odessa. Zaporoshye...

A hypersonic missile with some sort of fabric composite shell? 

If you look closely you can see the computer chips from german washing machines. 


Coming back to the Kh-35 missiles being used against radar stations in the past weeks.
Could they be ground launched?
From Bal complexes?

Another American Abrams tank was destroyed near Avdeyevka, according to reports on Russian social media.

https://t.me/geopolitics_live/19883

Oryol Governor Andrey Klychkov has confirmed that Russian forces struck an Abrams tank near Avdeyevka

The US-made vehicle was destroyed by military personnel from a special forces brigade that is regularly assisted by the Oryol region. The governor specified that the Abrams was struck near the settlement of Berdychi.

Geraniums flew to Sumy, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Odessa and Nikolaev regions.
Tactical aviation strikes on targets in the Kharkov region, as well as on the occupied part of the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
Ballistic missile strikes against targets in the occupied part of the DPR and the Kharkov region.
Tu-22M3 bombers attacked targets in the Odessa region with X-22 missiles.



Interesting arrivals:
A facility in Kharkov was hit by gliding bombs. They had never made it there before. Ukry writes that new UMPB glide bombs were used, which are equipped with an engine and can be launched from 300 mm MLRS or from aircraft. The range is unknown, but if they hit Kharkov, then it’s 30 kilometers from the border there.

(https://t.me/jnb_news)

It is reported that a Russian Aerospace Forces plane was shot down in Sevastopol by friendly fire from air defense.

Judging by the images, the pilot ejected successfully.

Here, once again, no comments, the interaction was completely bottomless and remains that way, no matter what.

military informant

https://t.me/milinfolive/119318

Sevastopol Governor Razvozhaev confirmed that the plane crashed into the sea near the city.

“The pilot ejected. He was picked up by rescuers from the Sevastopol Rescue Service at a distance of two hundred meters from the shore. His life is not in danger,” Razvozzhaev stated.

The missing plane is reported to have been a Su-27 fighter.

I give up. I will take a month off from this thread.

This war has taught me life is easier to be a high ranking Russian army military official than it is for Navy or Airforce because you will get less scolding.

have taken such a step in order to stabilise the contact line.

This it the fourth or fifth time that they send troops to "stabilise" the front.
It seems it doens´t work.

Very different results to presumably the same munitions.

New Pope or not??? 

Yes. There are ground launched and air launched versions of the missile. 

I meant those specific missiles we saw in videos destroying radars.
Drone spots the target, Bal launches missile.
BUMM.
Cheaper than sending aircraft.

 plane crashed into the sea near the city.

Ukros will claim it was Patriot. 

Sending F-16s to Ukraine is a ‘kamikaze’ mission

The F-16s being delivered to Ukraine “will not change the situation on the battlefield,” and Russia will destroy them “just as we today destroy tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers,” Vladimir Putin told Russian military pilots during a working visit to Tver region Wednesday.

Veteran military aviation historian and author Nikolai Bodrikhin agrees with this assessment, saying the F-16 is an “old” plane whose characteristics, capabilities and limitations are “well known” to the Russian military.

“Our fighters have missiles with a range that’s probably no less than that of the F-16’s air-to-air missiles, and there are ground-based complexes, even the old S-200 complexes, which can hit them quite easily – all the more so when it comes to the more modern S-300, S-400 and others,” Bodrikhin said. “In other words, we have a lot of air defense systems capable of destroying a significant number of these aircraft, even if they attack simultaneously.”

The observer believes the only practical threat US-made aircraft can pose to Russia are as a missile carrier on a suicide mission. “I don’t expect these planes to play any major role, but they can carry and accelerate air-to-ground missiles like a kamikaze – speeding the missile up and getting shot down, but the missile will be become difficult to intercept. This is the only regard in which a danger can manifest itself,” Bodrikihin explained.

To counter this threat, Russia’s Air Force and Air Defense Troops will have to track the F-16 jets from the moment of launch, and when they gain an appropriate height (conventionally, above 3,000 meters), they must be attacked and destroyed, according to the observer.

https://t.me/geopolitics_live/19949