Ukraine sacrificing Fighter Jets to stop Drones/Missiles - Planes shot down by SAMS over Poltava

Defense Policy Asia YouTube channel ^ | October 13, 2022 | DPA

[House Atreides]

Breaking news from the Poltava: Russia Ministry of Defense reported a shooting down of Ukrainian Su-27 over Poltava region by air defense system is raising concerns of the usage of fighter jets to defend against cruise missiles and suicide drones.

This comes after report from Ukrainian Air Force that one of their MiG-29 crashed in the night of 12 October after combat operations to destroy Russian Shahid-136 over Vinnytsia region and was reportedly tasked to shoot down cruise missiles the day before.

On top of this 2 losses, there are videos circulating in the social media of 2 separate crash wreckage of Ukrainian Su-24MR in the Poltava region with the regional head informing that the crash happened on 11 and 12 of October.

Having Ukrainian fighter jets falling out of the skies deep within Ukrainian territory is concerning and putting into question on the strategy of using high value fighter jets against cruise missiles and cheap Iranian-made drones.

[House Atreides]

Viewing this short (less than 4 minutes) video with its illustrative maps will make this clearer. The Ukrainians will have to make adjustments in their anti-Drone operations to have fewer losses.

[marktwain]

Drones are the new weapon everyone must adapt to or lose the battles and the war.

The Ukrainians were better adapters in the first 7 months. Now the Russians are adapting.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Shame warmonger Cheney was in one. Another neocon in Ukraine’s corner

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t believe anything I read about this war.

All I know if that we shouldn’t be involved and that sending weapons and money to Ukraine is a boneheaded move.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Wasn’t in one

[House Atreides]

“… we shouldn’t be involved and that sending weapons and money to Ukraine is a boneheaded move.”
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I can’t disagree with that. Had Trump been in (instead of Biden and his puppet masters) things would have been managed to avoid this fiasco.

[dynachrome]

No problem. NATO will send every jet they have and a training manual.

[CurlyDave]

Drones are the new weapon everyone must adapt to or lose the battles and the war.

The Ukrainians were better adapters in the first 7 months. Now the Russians are adapting.

Win or lose, Russia may well emerge from this conflict with the best armed forces on the planet. We need to be very careful of that outcome.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> No problem. NATO will send every jet they have and a training manual.

And hire military trained contractors to operate all the equipment

[logi_cal869]

All I know if that we shouldn’t be involved and that sending weapons and money to Ukraine is a boneheaded move.

As is supporting it, just like a number of boneheads here at FR.

[Therapsid]

Belarus just pledged 500,000 soldiers to help Russia in the Ukraine the people with led us to this point will all be living happily underground if we all suffer the catastrophic consequences of their behavior

[alexander_busek]

Belarus just pledged 500,000 soldiers to help Russia in the Ukraine [...]

Oh, no! Please say it ain't so! That military behemoth Belarus is getting involved now! Wow! All bets are off!

Regards,

[PIF]

"... Russia may well emerge from this conflict with the best armed forces on the planet"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Therapsid]

Nukes in that area .. even a “ limited exchange” like the insane left huf post is promoting .. is projected to starve a Billion people globally .. Beyond the death toll from this idiotic war ... its insanity you maybe you dont have children or grandchildren to worry about ..