Another Russian Su-25 malfunctioned and crashed, revealing weaknesses of the Russian Armed Forces

A viral video is being circulated on russian social media which shows that at the military airport in the junction of Raznodninsky and Krasno Perekopsky in Crimea, two Russian Su-25 attack planes took off, one of the plane seemed to be out of control and suddenly crashed and exploded. The pilot did not have time to eject and open parachute and was confirmed dead.

At present, the reason for the crash of the Su-25 attack aircraft is still unclear, but from the picture, the Su-25 attack aircraft only has two S-13 rocket launch pods mounted on it, which seems to be ready to execute a single strike. For ground attack missions, there is no mount imbalance problem.

This is the second fighter plane that the Russian army has crashed in the Crimea area in recent days. Not long ago, another Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed (one said that it was accidentally hit by the Russian air defense system). Many analysts believe that the continuous attack in the “special military operation” has actually overwhelmed the Russian Aerospace Forces. Due to the lack of spare parts and the suppression of the Ukrainian air defense network, the activities of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the front line have been significantly reduced, but with the Ukrainian army’s counter-offensive, the Russian ground troops were defeated like a mountain, and the Russian Aerospace Force had to risk their lives to attack. Even the Su-35 fighter jets hung up ordinary unguided bombs and began to carry out ground attack missions, not to mention the Soviet Union made Su-25 are full-time ground attack aircraft.

It is likely that due to poor maintenance or overworked pilots, the Russian fighter planes have suffered repeated accidents. The previously crashed Su-34 fighter-bomber did not have relevant pictures or videos to confirm that many people initially speculated that it crashed after being injured by Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles, but the crash of this Su-25 attack aircraft showed that it was completely Russian mistake.

The Ukrainian air defense network, supported by NATO intelligence and other sources, has shown strong combat effectiveness. It is for this reason that some advanced fighter jets of the Russian Armed Forces, such as the Su-30SM and Su-34, were completely unable to exert their full combat effectiveness and were suppressed at low and ultra-low altitudes, and were easily attacked by Ukrainian portable air defense missiles and short-range air defenses. The attack of the Ukrainian air defense system, has made the Ka-52 and other armed helicopters vulnerable to the low-altitude air defense fire of the Ukrainian army due to problems such as slow speed.

The Su-25 is a very different aircraft. It was designed as a low-altitude attack aircraft. Although it was repeatedly hit by the Ukrainian army, with its solid armor, it was possible to escape from death in many cases. There were even cases of being hit by 2 portable air defense missiles and struggling to return to the base. After all, if you are lucky, the portable air defense high-explosive fragmentation warhead with a missile warhead of a little more than 1 kg is really not good for Su-25.

According to the information that has been revealed one after another, the Russian army has experienced serious logistical support problems in the “special military operation”. It can even be said that the logistical network of the Russian army is seriously behind the times. The supply of various parts and components is difficult and chaotic. There is also a shortage of logistics personnel and even forced to use mercenaries to drive the Su-25. In the high-intensity war of attrition, the logistics support capabilities of the Russian army have been severely tested, and accidents are inevitable.

The Russian army is also aware of this, which is also the reason why the Russian Aerospace Forces had a low dispatch intensity before. The dispatch rate in the Kherson region was even less than one-third of the Ukrainian Air Force. But the battle situation is too critical. When the ground troops of the Russian army were defeated like a mountain and lacked enough reinforcements to stabilize the front line, they could only rely on the Aerospace Forces as a firefighting team. Of course, it is hard to say whether it is effective or not, but this price in the end is very heavy for the Russian Federation.

Russian anti-artillery radar destroyed by Ukraine as soon as it entered the battlefield

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The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service released a video taken by their drones. The Ukrainian army destroyed a Russian 1L260 “Zoo-1M” anti-artillery radar on the front line of Zaporozhye. We can see the first shells very clearly. It was precisely near the ground near the radar, and it exploded at a distance of about 2 or 3 meters from the ground. It destroyed the “Zoo-1M” radar in an instant, and then four shells fell one after another. The surrounding generators and other supporting systems were all destroyed, which showed the magical power of high-tech combat. It was later found out that Ukraine was using US-made 155MM “Excalibur” guided artillery shells.

Let’s talk about Russia’s most advanced anti-artillery radar first. The “Zoo-1M” can detect incoming artillery shells, calculate the position of artillery positions, and implement artillery units that are passed to their own anti-artillery to perform anti-artillery tasks to attack the opposing artillery systems. Because this radar uses phased array technology, it can track up to 12 targets at the same time, and it can calculate very accurately the artillery shells with fixed ballistics, such as howitzers, and for those with an S-shaped climbing ballistic in the front section.

“Zoo-1M” can not only locate the enemy’s artillery positions, but also provide this kind of calibration service for its own artillery, correct its explosion point and improve its own hit rate. It should be said that its battlefield role is still very large, and Russia also values this thing very much. Russia itself lacks this type of advanced battlefield perception equipment. As soon as it came, the loopholes and shortcomings of the Russian army were exposed. Second, it also severely damaged the morale of the Russian army, and was directly slapped in the face.

Let’s talk about the American “Excalibur” shell, which uses a GPS satellite guidance mechanism with a maximum range of 22 kilometers. The shooting accuracy and strike accuracy are within the range of 5 meters, which is quite accurate. Let’s just look at the combat strength of this battle. The first artillery shell exploded above the radar, which shows that the Ukrainian army has located the position of the Russian radar and the radar position has been very accurate. The “Excalibur” shell itself is indeed remarkable.

The anti-artillery radar is the “eye” of the artillery. It is really powerful. It can play a very important role on the battlefield, but its biggest weakness is that it is easy to find. This is equivalent to turning on a flashlight at night, you are looking at others, you are looking at other people very accurately, but they are also easy to be targeted by others, so after the anti-artillery radar is used, it often needs to change its position.

This time Ukraine has released such a video shot by their drone, which shows that Ukraine already has such small long-endurance reconnaissance drones, and the Ukrainian army fired 5 shells in a row at once. No fire calibration was carried out, which shows that Ukraine has mastered the exact position of the radar very accurately.

Now, we are looking at the Russian army, although they have done some countermeasures against the Ukrainian army in the early stage, but they did not even notice the drones flying in the sky, nor did they realize that this was the reconnaissance and detection process of the Ukrainian army.

This is a serious problem, and the fact that they has kept their anti-artillery radar position in one place for such a long time, this loophole is big enough. Moreover, the Russian army also lacks good precision-guided weapons, and there is no such thing as satellite artillery shells.

After the Ukrainian army has now obtained a new type of UAV and guided artillery shells, they will develop a new style to attack high-value targets in the deep areas of the Russian army. The key to countering these tactics of the Ukrainian army lies in this that it is necessary for the Russian Army to destroy and suppress the small long-endurance drones that the Ukrainian army got from Turkey, so that these guided munitions can be accurately rendered useless, but in the current situation of the Russian army, this is quite difficult.

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