Posted on 03/01/2024 11:44:02 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The Russian air force lost another Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber on Thursday, the Ukrainian air force claimed. If confirmed, the Thursday shoot-down would extend an unprecedented hot streak for Ukrainian air-defenses.
The Ukrainian claim they’ve shot down 11 Russian planes in 11 days: eight Su-34s, two Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and a rare Beriev A-50 radar plane.
But those 11 claimed losses are worse than they might seem for the increasingly stressed Russian air force. In theory, the air arm has plenty more planes. In practice, the service is dangerously close to collapse.
Exactly how the Ukrainians are shooting down so many jets is unclear. It’s possible the Ukrainian air force has assigned some of its American-made Patriot missile launchers to mobile air-defense groups that move quickly in close proximity to the 600-mile front line of Russia’s two-year wider war on Ukraine, ambushing Russian jets with 90-mile-range PAC-2 missiles then swiftly relocating to avoid counterattack.
But the distance at which the Ukrainians shot down that A-50 on Friday—120 miles or so—hints that a longer-range missile system was involved. Perhaps a Cold War-vintage S-200 that the Ukrainian air force pulled out of long-term storage.
It also is apparent the Ukrainians have moved some of their two-dozen or so 25-mile-range NASAMS surface-to-air missile batteries closer to the front line. After all, the Russians found—and destroyed with a missile—their first NASAMS launcher near the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on or before Monday.
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>Basically, I have shared with you before that this chart is a multi-lingual chart which apparently you still have not noticed.<
Yes, I can see the chart is in 2 languages.
You still haven’t noticed that there is no source listed in English for the info on the chart.
IOW, where do the numbers come from?
>THEREFORE, by Grey rocking Freepers just skim over the “foolishness” of their comments which refuses to reward their behavior!
The image is hopefully to trigger a reaction to be kind.>
It boggles my mind that any adult, especially one who claims to be a Christian cleric, would rely on a little rock to help them cope emotionally.
Isn’t that what The Rock Of Ages is for?
“It boggles my mind that any adult, especially one who claims to be a Christian cleric, would rely on a little rock to help them cope emotionally.”
Apparently, you desire to remain confused.
The rock method avoids conflict.
No one... not even the one being reminded to be kind meditates on a rock.
>The rock method avoids conflict.<
How exactly?
Russia’s Air Force Has Finally Given Up
Jake Broe
440K subscribers
3-3-2024 6:30 p.m. EST
26:03 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLP2xRFFPV8
Russia has lost 14 military planes in the last 15 days worth about $1 billion in aviation losses.
Alexei Navalny’s funeral finally was allowed and tens of thousands of Russians have shown up at his grave site to pay their last respects.
Russia continues to target and destroy apartment buildings as several children lost their lives in Odesa after a Russia drone strike.
bttt
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