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Posted on 03/11/2024 2:23:54 PM PDT by Cronos
Russia went to war in Ukraine in February 2022 with no more than nine flyable Beriev A-50U/M radar planes, which extend sensor coverage over the front line.
The four-engine A-50s and the 10 or 15 experienced officers who crew each of them are critical and hard-to-replace assets. Which is why the Ukrainians have devoted scarce resources to finding and striking the $300-million planes.
A Ukrainian drone damaged an A-50 on the ground in Belarus last year. On Jan. 14, a long-range Ukrainian missile shot down an A-50 over the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine. Six weeks later on Feb. 23, another Ukrainian missile blew up a third A-50 in the same area.
The Russian air force swiftly grounded its surviving A-50s and scrambled to replace the two or three lost planes. That meant cycling at least one older and possibly unflyable A-50—out of several dozen Beriev built in the 1980s—through Beriev’s Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex in the Russian city of Taganrog, on the Azov Sea coast just 80 miles from the front line.
So of course the Ukrainians promptly droned the Taganrog factory. They obviously are determined to extinct the lumbering A-50 before the Russians can recover the species. The ostensible next-generation replacement for the A-50, the A-100, has been mired in testing for years and may never become a front-line aircraft.
...the Russian air force anticipated a Ukrainian strike on the Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex—and stationed a long-range surface-to-air missile battery adjacent to the complex.
It totally failed to prevent the overnight drone raid.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
It’s funny how the Ukes have shot down 15 or 20 Russian planes including their AWACS in the last week. Miraculously, the Uke forces on the ground are still getting completely mauled every day by massive FAB glide bombs. I guess the Russians are launching them from kites.
...and not a SINGLE bit of photo-evidence, unlike the Patriots over the weekend.
And we STILL have to put up with this propaganda here.
You aren’t looking in the right places, Bobby.
There was a second A-50 in the hangar and Ukraine destroyed it, too.
“Ghost of Kiev!!!1! For realsies!!!1!”
“You aren’t looking in the right places, Bobby.”
You guys are MORE THAN WELCOME to help out the author of the article and provide some proof beyond Ukrainian Propaganda.
And please cool it with the name calling.
Don’t wake him up. He’s having another dreamy dream.
I see Forbes is trying to drum up some optimism for the globalists’ UKRAINE PROJECT WAR. I don’t like to see either side take human losses and I DEFINITELY DON’T WANT BILLIONS MORE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS’ MONEY dedicated to this war. It’s not an American interest!
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And he won't.
https://www.youtube.com/@davidaxe
He's covered war and politics for The Daily Beast, Vice, The Village Voice, The Washington Times and C-SPAN.
He looks as gay as a stack of strawberry flapjacks.
OK, Robby.
>He looks as gay as a stack of strawberry flapjacks.<
The Lib Rags sent David to cover the Dancing Queen because they share common interests.
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