How Russia LOST 11 Jets In 11 Days



🔥 Dive into the astonishing tale of Ukraine’s stunning victory over Russian aircraft! 🇺🇦✈️ Discover how Ukraine shot down 11 Russian planes in 11 days, dealing a significant blow to Russia’s air campaign. But what’s the larger impact on the ongoing conflict? 🤔 Don’t miss the breakdown of this critical moment and its implications. Learn about the rare feat of downing a Beriev A-50 radar plane and Ukraine’s adaptation of air defense systems. Stay tuned for more military analysis! 💥🛩️ #Ukraine #Russia #AirWarfare #themilitaryshow

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23 thoughts on “How Russia LOST 11 Jets In 11 Days”

  1. Be it F-16s, Grippens, Rafale, or even Mirages, in light of Macron's boots in Ukraine, they can be provisioned with 'professional' ground support staffs and facilities as an aid package; and they'd be well removed from the frontline.

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  2. Everyday Ukraine continues to lose some territory. What's the point in counting planes and tanks? If the West thinks they can bleed Russia to death, they are living in a fool's paradise.

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  3. At 4:30 — Saying "there is only one of these" is misleading.

    The airframe is a development platform for the A-100, not a working airborne early warning and control platform. It's easy to designate an Il-76 as an 'A-100' and mount a radar shroud. The challenging work is designing modern electronics to go into it. That takes many years with a Pentagon-level budget and access to a robust industy. It will take Russia significantly longer, which means they are likely to end up with an effectively obsolete system when it is finally ready.

    Until there is a viable, partiall-working system there is no point in building a fleet of airframes. Even if Russia has a desperate immediate need (which it does) they can't just spend money and get a dozen of them.

    By some counts, Russia is down to two modernized A-50 aircraft. The ones in storage are like a laptop you put away two decades ago: it was obsolete and worn when you retired it. Age and progress hasn't done it any favors.

    Which leads to the dilemma: what does Russia do? They can restart A-50U production, which was the announced plan. But it's still expensive and risky to restart production, especially procuring components that are no longer manufactured. They can go all-in on a crash program to finish development of the A-100 design, but that might still take another decade. Or they can build a hodgepodge of whatever old equipment can be scrounged and call it the A-100M

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  4. Judging by the sorry state the moskva was in when it got axed i wager the A50 had 60% of its copper wiring sold for drinking money and the radar dish was decorative at best

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  5. Taking down a A-50 Radar Plane, which is basically a flying military command center, is really significant as they usually fly a good distance away from any airspace that may be in range of any threat of being shot at, let alone shot down. Plus as other comments already mentioned, they have other aircraft flying as an escort to maintain their protection. Their range of the radar on those planes can cover a large area ( exact range is classified but you can look them up to get the exact range they cover).
    For example, The US has their E-3 Sentry planes, used with NATO, flying as close as NATO airspace is allows them to fly to Ukraine tracking all aircraft, missles, ground forces in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's invaison of Ukraine!

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