Posted on 02/27/2023 3:12:44 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Belarusian anti-government activists have claimed responsibility for what they said was a drone attack on a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft at an airfield near the Belarus capital of Minsk on Sunday.
"Those were drones. The participants of the operation are Belarusian," Aliaksandr Azarov, leader of Belarusian anti-government organization BYPOL, was quoted as saying on the organisation's Telegram messaging app and on the Poland-based Belsat news channel.
"They are now safe, outside the country."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Who’s winning the battle for Bakhmut?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T72FT726fSY
we don’t know yet
could be like the Battle of Kiev last year, with Russia getting crushed
So you expect me to waste my time watching some random Youtube video by a pro-Kremlin v-blogger on Putin’s payroll?
A-50 huh? I had an A-7 once, it sure didn’t look like that.
Wild guess: The “A” is for Antonov
AWACSki:
“The mission personnel of the 15-man crew derive data from the large Liana surveillance radar with its antenna in an over-fuselage rotodome, which has a diameter of 9 metres (30 ft)[3] Detection range is 650 kilometres (400 mi) for air targets and 300 kilometres (190 mi) for ground targets.[4]
The A-50 can control up to ten fighter aircraft for either air-to-air intercept or air-to-ground attack missions. The A-50 can fly for four hours with a range of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from its base, at a maximum takeoff weight of 190 metric tons (420,000 lb). The aircraft can be refuelled by Il-78 tankers.[5][6]
The radar “Vega-M” is designed by MNIIP, Moscow, and produced by NPO Vega. The “Vega-M” can track up to 150 targets simultaneously within 230 kilometres (140 mi). Large targets, like surface ships, can be tracked at a distance of 400 kilometres (250 mi).[citation needed][7]
Development work on a modernized version, the A-50U, began in 2003; state tests started on 10 September 2008, using a Russian Air Force A-50 “37 Krasnyy” as a prototype. It replaces analog avionics with a new digital avionics suite, made by Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, that speeds data processing and improves signal tracking and target detection. Crew rest, toilet and galley facilities are also included in the upgrade.[8]
After completing the joint state tests, Beriev has delivered the first A-50U to the Russian Air Force. The aircraft, “47 Krasnyy’”RF-92957, was handed over at Beriev’s facility in Taganrog on 31 October 2011.[9] It was accepted by an aircrew serving with the 2457th Aviation Base for Combat Operation of Airborne Early Warning Aircraft (Aviabaza Boevogo Primeneniya Samolyotov Dal’nego Radiolokatsionnogo Obnaruzheniya) at Ivanovo Severny, which is the only base using the A-50 operationally (it operates 16 aircraft).[8] The fourth A-50U, “41 Taganrog”, was delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces on 7 March 2017. The fifth A-50U, “45 Krasnyy”, was delivered on 6 December 2018. 7 aircraft have been delivered as of December 2021.[10]
The A-50U upgrade forms the basis of the concept for Beriev A-100 AEW&C. Its configuration will be similar, but with a new Vega Premier active electronically scanned array radar.[8]
In late December 2015, the A-50 started operations over Syria, flying from Russia, to support Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War.[11] In December 2018, it was deployed to Crimea.[12] On 26 February 2023...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_A-50
Nice shooting.
Audi or LTV?
So what that guy is saying is incorrect? That Bakhmut is almost not surrounded? Prove to me he’s incorrect.
The Russians keep advancing in their encirclement of Bakhmut. Show me where I’m wrong.
DemonRats don't have to prove anything to anyone.
all the “early reports” are Russian propaganda designed to weaken public support
in the Battle of Kiev last spring, Ukraine managed to rout Russia despite being outnumbered and having no Western equipment yet
Ukrainians are proving to be some of the toughest fighters in the World ... I’m confident Russia will blow it again ...
1959 BSA 500cc twin
I’m looking at a pro-Uke map that shows the Ruskies slowly, but surely encircling Bakhmut.
I’m looking at what is happening now; not last year.
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