Posted on 05/07/2022 9:27:24 PM PDT by GonzoII
The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island.The raid marks a significant escalation of Ukraine’s air campaign targeting the Russian garrison on the island in the western Black Sea, 80 miles south of Ukraine’s strategic port Odessa.
For at least a week now, Kyiv’s propeller-driven TB-2 armed drones have been waging a relentless defense-suppression campaign over and around Snake Island. The satellite-controlled drones with their 14-pound missiles have knocked out at least three air-defense systems on the 110-acre island as well as two Russian patrol boats and a landing craft along the shore.
Destroying the air-defenses, along with any naval vessels attempting to reinforce the tiny island—with its single pier, helicopter landing pad and dozen or so structures—cleared a path for the twin-engine, supersonic Su-27s to strike on or before Saturday.
A TB-2 was nearby, watching with its gimbal-mounted camera, as the single-seat Sukhois—the Ukrainian air force’s fastest interceptors—streaked low over the island, dropping unguided bombs. Whatever Russian forces were left on the island after the drones did their work, the Su-27s apparently heavily damaged…..
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
While this author, David Axe, seems to be objectively reporting some events in this war, his peacetime reportage is full-on liberal Democratic disinformation with Russian sympathy. Beware of his future articles.
And indeed, it is.
Stalking? I don’t have time for that. I just respond to idiotic postings. I guess u must make a lot of them!
Yeah huh. If Pootypoot said he was invading because of aliens we coulda stopped the whole thing by inviting him to tour area 51. Do you even listen to how stupid you sound?
only in your adlepated mind
If true, that does not negate your constant cheerleading for Russia.
It’s about a threat to Russia’s sovereignty and Putin’s leadership.
C’mon man, Biden was crowing about regime change in Russia.
Ukraine is a false front for the false front NATO which is a front for globalist statists (the Colonel Vindmans) in the U.S. Department of State, CIA, etc.
Biden was all tough talk during the campaign, but when elected Biden tried to appease Putin, by approving Nord Stream 2, overturning Trumps sanctions. Putin invaded, taking advantage of a weak US presidency.
And I also would have thought these new polish planes would have been wiped out ....I mean the technology is pretty amazing these days.
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