Russian strategic bombers are airborne and there are words that cruise missile strike is in progress. However there's also talks of something more complex happening, could be another move to bait out air defense.
Are they blowing positions to make it easier to come back and retake Bakhmut ??? It will make rebuilding easier... or they try to trap Wagner troops?
If they continue defending, where they will go after blowing them up ?
There is also video of of Lancet strike on Zu-23-2 in what looks like same area(with Zu trying to shot down Lancet).Lancet on Gepard video has now turned up.
There is also video of of Lancet strike on Zu-23-2 in what looks like same area(with Zu trying to shot down Lancet).
If you summ all recent videos. It seems that with massive attack of Lancets they managed to take out full S-300 battery even with short range air defense of Gepard and ZUs killing those too during attack. Which do raise question about what actually can be done vs such type of UAVs. Really impressive.
Fair, although ukranians have been saying for some one or two months that Russians do more SEADs in general.Might be a bit premature to draw too broad a conclusion just yet since all of these hits are from two or three engagements.
Catching a whole S300 battery is a huge win for the Russians, but it’s far too early to say if this is an early sign of more successful DEAD tactics/EW equipment/ISR etc or if it’s just a stroke of great good fortune that they had enough lancets close enough to react to the discovery of the battery before it redeployed out of range.
Devastating loss. This is the most important part of their defense network and not replaceable by western aid.