Posted on 01/28/2024 7:12:54 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Russians now denying it was friendly fire.
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“Disaster”. We lost another A-50 aircraft, the military speaks of an “unknown weapon” of the enemy
Our sources in the Aerospace Forces and the Ministry of Defense confirm information about the loss of the A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft. This is the second such loss in just over a month.
“It’s a disaster. The plane was shot down, killing (preliminary data) from 12 to 17 people,” an interlocutor at the Aerospace Forces told us.
Another denied the currently spreading version that the plane was lost as a result of friendly fire from our air defense.
“It was definitely an enemy shooting. He was shooting from some unknown weapon. It was most likely not a Patriot, but something more serious,” he said.
What exactly, the source does not yet know. The plane, in his opinion, could either be shot down over the Sea of Azov ( which, frankly, is unlikely, judging by the video of this disaster ), or shot down directly over the Krasnodar Territory, where in this case this incomprehensible Ukrainian weapon reached.
On the other hand, a representative of the Ministry of Defense talks about friendly fire. “Our drunken air defense fighters shoot down their planes ( we wrote about this emergency - ed. ), so anything can happen. They shot down the A-50s themselves,” he said bitterly.
We will find out the details of this tragedy and will tell you as soon as we receive new information.
There was an interesting long range F-16 training exercise yesterday. I wonder if it was a practice run for today.
Would fit the definition of a new unknown weapon mentioned; they could have flown low along the Turkish coast before approaching - there may be a radar ‘hole’ ion that area also.
That F-16 flight yesterday looked like a taunt.
If the F-16 has 3 external fuel tanks it would probably have enough fuel for the attack.
The A-50 may be the only radar system that could detect the F-16s in time to negate the attack.
I doubt the F-16 would be able to get within Aim-120 range of the A-50.
🇷🇺Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber WAS SHOT DOWN while launching X-59 missiles in Kherson region.
AIM-120D’s have range of 86-100 miles; is it possible that this missile was used?
However, if the target turns 180 degrees and puts the F-16/Aim-120 on the tail, the missile may not get there.
Also, the 86 to 100 miles would require the F-16 to be at medium to high altitude.
If the F-16 is at low altitude, the max range would shrink a lot.
Assuming that the A-50 radar is similar to the E-3, then it would have no difficulty painting an F-16 at very low altitude.
If this was an F-16 shoot down then kudos to the pilots.
It might be possible if the A-50 scope operators were concentrating on contested land.
Essentially, after all his delays, Orban needed a fig leaf to make it seem like he was getting something for Hungary's vote. After Kristersson refused to meet with him a couple weeks ago to discuss (grovel for) Sweden's NATO membership, Orban had to come up with something else. This purchase is that something. Of course Sweden had a card that they kept up their sleeve - at least publicly. Hungary's only combat jet is the Gripen. They are completely dependent on Sweden, and without Swedish support, their fighter fleet would quickly degrade and become useless.
Meanwhile, Sweden built 14 unsold Gripen C/D aircraft to keep the Gripen assembly line open during development of the Gripen E/F. These aircraft have been sitting unsold for years. So Sweden gets to sell 4 of these jets, and Hungary gets 4 new Gripens. Even without Sweden's accession to NATO, it's a win-win deal for Hungary and Sweden.
Ukrainian Bradley only had a two-person crew when it wrecked a T-90
“A little over a week (month) ago combat footage out of Ukraine went viral, showing a U.S.-donated Bradley Fighting Vehicle with Ukraine’s armed forces taking on a Russian T-90M tank and quickly making short work of it. The decades-old Bradley, essentially an armored personnel carrier and not a tank itself, drove circles around the modern Russian tank. It fired its 25mm gun nonstop until the Russian armor was disabled and crashed into a tree. It turns out the Bradley did that with only a crew of two.”
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https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-bradley-fighting-vehicle-tank-two-man-crew/
They were releasing flares a long time before the hit so the F-16 may have popped up and was seen, but too late. just a theory.
Ukraine just confirmed the IL-22 shootdown.
Excellent.
At this point, I don't know what to believe other than an A-50 was shot down.
If it was S-200 missiles, the range is barely 160 miles, so they would have had to mount them on some sort of water craft to hit anything near Rostov.
It looks like the crash site, reported to be in vicinity of Yeysk, is only about 100 miles from Ukraine held territory.
Multiple explosions reported this evening at the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, the largest steel plant in Russia.
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