US’ ‘Disruptive’ LongShot 6th-Gen Drone Equivalent Blinds Russia; Could Be Behind A-50 AWACS Shootdown: Ex-IAF Pilot

EurAsian Times ^ | 26 Feb 2024 | Ruta Shrma

[DUMBGRUNT]

Russians are being blinded from monitoring Ukrainian air space after losing another A-50 AWACS. An Indian expert suggests that the footage of A-50 Beriev ‘flying radar’ being hit indicates that Ukrainians are targeting Russian assets flying at a distance of over 200 km by modifying a drone to receive targeting data from Western surveillance and launching a heat-seeking missile.

But the video points at Ukraine operationalizing something akin to the American Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)’s “Project Longshot.” In 2023, the Longshot project reached its third and final demonstration and test phase.

During the same attack, a Russian Ilyushin Il-22 command plane was also damaged. As reported by the EurAsian Times then, some experts suggest that Ukrainians deployed one of their ‘Franken’ surface-to-air missiles, created by mating Patriot missiles with their S-300 systems, to achieve spectacular success.

Over 40 A50s were built in the 1980s and 1990s, but as of 2022, only about 16 remained, with nine to eleven being in flyable condition. Since late 2022, reports have indicated that only three of these aircraft are still “fully mission capable”

[JustaTech]

Just like we are seeing armor become non-survivable on the modern battlefield, the same problem’s starting to apply to non-stealth military aircraft in or even near contested air space. Countermeasures are being countered.

If it moves and we can see it/track it, we can kill it.

Then we can talk about all surface Naval vessels. Which we will be talking about after we lose the first carrier, probably not long from now.

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

Antioch: So the US is at war with Russia AND Germany. And for what? The reserve dollar hegemony.

The idea that reserve currency status is behind US being the biggest economy is a myth. In 1896, when the pound was the world reserve currency, the US economy was not just the largest - it was 2x the size of #2, the UK. The flow of immigrants was certainly in one direction, from Europe to the US. Even back then, almost 50 years before the dollar became the world reserve currency, the US was the major industrial power.

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That was an era in which the UK's British Steel and Germany's Krupp could be said to be peers with their US megacorp counterparts. Today, US megacorps dwarf their overseas counterparts. Foreigners don't use US goods and services because of the dollar's reserve currency status. They do it because US products have been, for over a century, either the best or very close to the best combination of price and features.

[Paul R.]

I really wonder how low Pooty is willing to go with his A-50’s?

[dennisw]

Looks like another bad hair day for Bad News Vlad.

[dennisw]

Circa 1900 Argentina had the world’s 4th largest economy. Due to tremendous wheat farming output/ And other agricultural outputs.
Exporting these made Argentina wealthy.