I believe helicopters produce a distinctive flickering radar return due to rotor rotation that allows radar signal processing to pick them out relatively easily.
The Ukrainians will just fill the towns with human shields again.I suspect we might see bombers start to make an appearance soon.
The issue is less one of Putin being a bleeding heart and being precious about killing Ukrainian soldiers (come on, not even the most pro-Russian posters will believe that), but rather there are no ‘clean’ targets to use such bombers and carpet bombing tactics against since Ukrainian troops almost always dig in around towns and cities rather than try to fight clean battles out in open fields.
Unless the Russians are truly comically inept, their current pull backs should leave towns with zero civilians left to get underfoot. So when the Ukrainians move into occupy them, that’s when carpet bombing becomes actually viable and militarily useful to do.
The Ukrainians say it is a false flag. Either way the Russians now have a perfectly good excuse to escalate things much more than what they already have done so far...This is why i believe the Russian air cover are absent.
On the respect of topographic tho. Belgorod city is quite challenging in radar perspective against low fliers. This is coverage for a ground based radar, with mast height of 5 meters and 40 meters. I made a tweet about coverage. with assumption radar is located in Belgorod international
Maybe the Russians just allowed it to manufacture consent at in the field and at homeThe Ukrainians say it is a false flag. Either way the Russians now have a perfectly good excuse to escalate things much more than what they already have done so far...
Absolute conquest of Ukraine is conquering all of Ukraine which is asinine. Best solution is taking the former Novorussiya area. This turns rest of Ukraine proper into a broke, landlocked failed state with Banderist in power because best believe when Ukraine loses the war the neo nazis fascist in the west will seize power. Nothing is more dangerous for a nation is when you have your veterans come back home losing a war and losing territory. Those vets will be recruited by the Banderist and boom a neo nazi state in West Ukraine or the very least a civil war. This removes the military threat of Ukraine. And you have a weak day poor rump Ukraine.What you are saying is much much less than the absolute conquest of Ukraine.
The original A-50 system was a dumpster fire of hot garbage. Hopefully they've improved it since then.Well, what's the standards ? can't really make comparisons when technical specifications for both are not available.
A-50U is thoroughly modernized, but the specs are still a misteryThe original A-50 system was a dumpster fire of hot garbage. Hopefully they've improved it since then.
Maybe an excuse to end peace talks until after the Donbass offensive.The Ukrainians say it is a false flag. Either way the Russians now have a perfectly good excuse to escalate things much more than what they already have done so far...