Incredible drone video of a Ukranian Army Javelin missile top attack on a Russian tank. They didn't absolutely seeing it coming and that missile systems in the Ukrainian theater is deadly!!
The War in the Ukraine
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It's the 'cheapest' option, albeit slow, stupid (basically like a ww1/ww2 'level' of warfare) and it is also a method with low loss (of men).
Black Shark
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Wrong. There is no such a thing as being stealthy and "invisible" to radars. Even a WW2 Radar can pick up any modern "stealth" aircraft, the question is at what distance and angles. Pretending to have wunderwafflen that can do everything and go full Grey Fox on all enemy aircrafts is nothing but a wet dream settled in the marketing world and in Hollywood.
Iskander
near Seversk
situation near Bakmut
incendiary MRLS
Kornet missiles
near Seversk
situation near Bakmut
incendiary MRLS
Kornet missiles
In Syria from one airbase Ruaf round the clock operation for one year before slow down after peace agreements.
now that airbase is greatly expanded and more bases added for operation around whole Middleast and Africa. Russia need more countries to open airspace for overflight to support much larger operation.
countries open airspace for military overflights when they see the reliability of engineering and economic strength.
They're about even with Su-35 or Su-27 VKS have. The issue being that whether one side can gain BVR advantage. Ukrainian do have Western AEW support, this if allows identification can allow Ukraine to try a "100 km shot" with AMRAAM's (If C is provided) Or as far as it can go e.g 50-90 km for A and B variant.
VKS in other hand have R-77-1 or they can try Su-35+ R-37 combo to do 160 km range shot at least.
Su-57 can help but let's be real that there are just too few of it right now.
But of course BVR shot may less likely to hit due to physics as missiles are losing energy but that's one option.
They need a new missile. as Current AMRAAM requires those F-35's and F-22's to be inside Ukrainian airspace to utilize their range.
I respectfully disagree, The performance of the Russian air force in Syria was on par or superior to their Western counterparts in similar conflicts and even though the Ukrainian air force is stronger than anything that Western air forces had ever encounter, there is no need to the Russians to project all the might their air force because Ukraine is flat enough and close enough for the ground army do its job, also would be very expensive to the Russian economy to sustain a prolonged air campaign instead of using drone, missiles and artillery.
Modern air power is dominated by drones. Drones launched from helicopters are very deadly for example.