In the contested skies over Ukraine in 2024, a Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-25 streaks across the sky, its familiar silhouette unchanged since the days of the Cold War.
But as it approaches its target, something is different, as the pilot releases not Russian-made munitions but a NATO-approved French Hammer-guided bomb.
Born in the 1970s as the USSR’s answer to the American A-10 Warthog, the Sukhoi Su-25 was built to survive intense ground fire during close support missions. Its twin R-95Sh engines, each producing 9,900 pounds of thrust, push it to speeds over 600 miles per hour. With thick armor plating shielding the cockpit and a powerful twin-barrel autocannon that can fire 3,000 rounds per minute, the model has proven its worth in dozens of conflicts around the world.
From Soviet factories to desert battlefields and now carrying Western-made weapons over Eastern Europe, the Su-25 has evolved far beyond its creators’ expectations.
Today, in Ukraine’s contested airspace, this modern-day “Flying Tank” continues to adapt. As these battle-hardened aircraft crisscross the skies, they fly for both sides of the conflict. The same robust airframe that once symbolized the Soviet might now embodies the complexities of 21st-century warfare, serving in ways its designers never envisioned.
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Giving A10’s to Ukraine?
I hope the subject comes up after the coming election so the transfer can be stopped and the war ended.
THE USA needs to get one " FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES OFC"!!
YEP I WANT ONE
The A10 hasn’t been tested in combat like the frogfoot.
I predict US A 10's (Wart Hog's) will live as long as B 59's (BUFF's) and be flown multi generational like the "BUFF"
As a kid dove hunting the Imerial Valley N/E of Salton Sea about 1984, I Got to Hear the RRRRRRRRrrr of their cannons gunnery training.
I will "Never Forget" that sound!
I also camped, fished and hunted as a kid near March AFB a S.A.C. base watching Chrome Doom and others going on.
so does it kill ukrainans? or is this a mouuthpiece for russia?
fuck this documentary. fuck this premise. anything that celebrates killing my friends should be left alone.
🇺🇦 We are winning
More clickbait…this is neither super nor fighter.
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A Ukrainian Air Force SU-25 shot-down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014! It was riddled with 30mm holes, yet CNN & Wikipedia still say it was downed by "Putin's" Missile.
Makes an Awesome PSS scale slope RC plane. Looks great!
Su-25: NOT a fighter, it's CAS (Close Air Support)
Anyone else find it weird that WW1, WW2 Ukrain was on the enemy side of the allies. They committed suck heinous acts to there own citizens that the Nazi SS was shocked and horrified. They not once backed the USA or Nato in anything and yet our president sends billions to them.
Fighter? Do you know what a fighter is?
This airplane has proven nothing other than the fact that it’s entirely obsolete on the modern battlefield.
Russia’s war in Ukraine? How about NATO’s war in Ukraine?
If you uploaded your voice into AI, I wonder if we could tell…..
Not a fighter,its a ground attack aircraft,as usual the commentators have the wrong script
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
Another awesome video Dark Skies!!! Great work!
Where is the so called game Changer…. Tide Turner f16s that the comedian been bragging from the beginning of the war….
He said he needs f16 to win the war…. So they gave him…. Now what….
His Christmas list just doesn't end….
Give me A10 any day awesome plane
Su 25 is not even a fighter
Thank you for turning the music down. I was worried I'd have to stop watching your content due to obscene musical levels. I enjoy your stuff, thanks for making it.
Interesting video but you don't say much about the losses of the ukrainian air force since february 2022. There is not much operationnal Su 25 left in the ukrainian army.
Wouldn't the plural of frogfoot be frogfeet?
Thank You, & Well Done!
I unsubscribe from your sh@t today, it's gone way down hill and has just turned into a cr@p propaganda channel
I unsubscribe from your sh@t today, it's gone way down hill and has just turned into a cr@p propaganda channel
Russian upgrades: duct tape.
Sukhois use 30mm canons those shells are basically grenades, but here they seem to be doing damage like pistol rounds