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Aspide

Just Hatched
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And yet the Russians can make fighter, SAM, and naval radars just fine. For whatever reason this indispensable unavailable Western technology is only needed for the A-100 radar complex.

The truth is any such components were removed from Russian weapon systems since 2014 after the sanctions on weapons exports to Russia. The A-100 was developed after the sanctions, so where did they get the military grade electronics for it then?
Never heard of "parallel import" via countries like Kazakhstan and Belarus? North Korea is also under sanctions for years, how do they produce anything, including nuclear weapons?
 

pmc

Colonel
Registered Member
Hi,
beside churning out fighter or bombers and helicopters Russian really has to
do something about their early warning and control systems AKA awacs
which
they are really far far away even from the minimum strength to guide their long range
missiles or their fighters, so they need awacs asap and some special mission long
range planes for jamming and spoofing etc
thank you
Russia uses Tu-214SR (strategic communication) with Israel routinely. and Israel is the country that has launched thousands of strikes on smallest of targets. do you think Russia does not learn from them how to effectively apply airpower when they sit right next to them for decades. this Su-57 radar before the Su-57M is 650km range.
last week 3 Tu-160 suppose to launch missiles but could not launch any weopon and one of it didnot even take off. Previously Ukranian thought they never use it for strike. The point i am making this plane has role in this group action even though it may not fire weopons.

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Struck by lightning: Russia's Tu-160 was unable to launch missiles at Ukraine, — Russian media​

03.09.2025 at 21:19

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The Tu-160s can carry up to 12 cruise missiles. But due to the importance of this aircraft, Russia, as already noted, almost never uses it to strike Ukraine.

“The Tu-160 is the most modern strategic aviation aircraft in the Russian fleet. That’s why it still keeps them. And in principle, it doesn’t see the need to use them, including against Ukraine, because it has sufficient resources of other aircraft. The Tu-160s are supersonic. "They are considered primarily as carriers of tactical nuclear weapons to counter Western countries," explains Bohdan Dolince.

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05 February 2022, 19:55
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"Circular Defense": Tu-160M Will Be Able to "Launch Missiles in Four Directions"​

The modernized Russian strategic bomber-missile carrier Tu-160M will be equipped with "reverse launch" missiles that will be able to intercept targets "behind" it. Gazeta.Ru investigated how such missiles are launched and maneuvered.
"This is very important for a bomber, as it is a very large and relatively unmaneuverable target. The Tu-160 all-round defense system consists of optical-electronic and radar systems. Basically, all radars on both fighters and bombers are installed in the front hemisphere. In order to be able to work all-round, at 360 degrees, for the purposes of aircraft defense, radars or antennas are needed, located along the perimeter of the aircraft. In this case, the Tu-160M uses a rear-view radar. The side sectors also overlap due to the fact that the viewing sectors of the front and rear radars can intersect. This achieves all-round visibility, as well as independent aiming and missile launch both in the front and rear hemispheres," Popov said.
According to him, the radar’s work is differentiated based on the principle of determining where the maximum threat comes from – this is important so that the system “attacks faster and understands the distribution of the target object relative to the aircraft.”
 

defenceman

Junior Member
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Russia uses Tu-214SR (strategic communication) with Israel routinely. and Israel is the country that has launched thousands of strikes on smallest of targets. do you think Russia does not learn from them how to effectively apply airpower when they sit right next to them for decades. this Su-57 radar before the Su-57M is 650km range.
last week 3 Tu-160 suppose to launch missiles but could not launch any weopon and one of it didnot even take off. Previously Ukranian thought they never use it for strike. The point i am making this plane has role in this group action even though it may not fire weopons.
Hi,
thanks for the info about Tu21SR, here I can’t understand the point of your sharing with Israel you want to
say Israeli are helping Russia to bomb Ukraine? If I’m wrong then what did they learn from Israel, my post was about blocking or jamming signals or Ukrainian awacs been given to them by SAAB and another one will be on its way soon if Russian su57 radar can detect 650km then I would say nine of the Ukrainian airforce fighter should be able to fly form Ukrainian bases and if they are flying from NATO bases then even once in Ukrainian territory they should be having a R37M behind their back through network centric warfare they might be having good fighters around but no so good early warning in the air and some state of the art cyber warfare they need to display like a real power who once use to be a super power
if you have some more knowledge about their assets please enlighten me like you share the info about sharing
communication with Israeli military
thank you
 

pmc

Colonel
Registered Member
Hi,
thanks for the info about Tu21SR, here I can’t understand the point of your sharing with Israel you want to
say Israeli are helping Russia to bomb Ukraine? If I’m wrong then what did they learn from Israel, my post was about blocking or jamming signals or Ukrainian awacs been given to them by SAAB and another one will be on its way soon if Russian su57 radar can detect 650km then I would say nine of the Ukrainian airforce fighter should be able to fly form Ukrainian bases and if they are flying from NATO bases then even once in Ukrainian territory they should be having a R37M behind their back through network centric warfare they might be having good fighters around but no so good early warning in the air and some state of the art cyber warfare they need to display like a real power who once use to be a super power
if you have some more knowledge about their assets please enlighten me like you share the info about sharing
communication with Israeli military
thank you
The point i am making is Russia has actual battlefield experience and it does secure communication with Israel who itself use airpower most often at longest distance. by this time Russia should be able to figure out which platform are important and which are less. They have some thing like 15 or 20 A-50 that hardly used. they can be upgraded to A-50U standard but whats the point of keeping this crew if its suboptimal in most situations. remember we are in age of aero ballistic and hypersonic missiles and about to enter into 6G communication era. no one has time for an hour with this slow moving AWACS which is likely to be hit on ground or in air with ultra long range missiles.
Ukraine is separate issue. Russia has special approach to it to prolong the conflict and it has nothing to do with application of technology.
 

gelgoog

Lieutenant General
Registered Member
Never heard of "parallel import" via countries like Kazakhstan and Belarus? North Korea is also under sanctions for years, how do they produce anything, including nuclear weapons?
Not of military grade electronics. Think Catherine FCS Thermal sights from Thales or space grade electronics as examples. The Russians have been unable to import those since 2014.
Civilian grade electronics sure. But those the Russians can still get today.
 
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