Guest Post by Moon of Alabama
I am not sure how valid this is but I am sure it is relevant:
Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55 – 16:58 UTC · Oct 24, 2023Military expert Vladislav Shurygin: The Pentagon has become sharply concerned about the suddenly increased effectiveness of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
In two weeks, the Russians staged a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least 10 of their aircraft (according to other sources, 14).
Moreover, all of them were shot down far from the front line and outside the radius of Russian air defense systems, as well as outside the standard radius of Russian fighter missiles. Those pilots who were able to eject reported that until the moment their planes were hit, they did not receive warning information about the attack from the appropriate warning systems.
The Americans believe that the Russian Aerospace Forces have acquired new missiles capable of not only hitting targets at a great distance, but also, after launch, independently pursuing a target without illuminating it from the aircraft’s radar, using a radio signature to guide it (the target).
Now Americans carefully check this information and consider it critically important. Since, if it is confirmed, it means that the Russians have acquired a weapon that will neutralize all the advertised advantages of their new main fighter, the F-35.
Vladislav Shurygin is indeed a Russian ‘military expert’ who has had various appearances on Russian talk shows.
The claim that there is ‘a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky’ is valid if the recent daily reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense are near to reality. I for one believe they are.
The typical Ukrainian air-force loss rate over the first three quarters of this year was one to three air planes or helicopters per week.
Since the mid of October the Russian daily reports claimed, according to my notes, the shot down of:
- 17 Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter aircraft
- 2 Ukrainian SU-24 tactical bombers
- 3 Ukrainian SU-25 close air support jets
- 1 Ukrainian L-39 fighter jet trainer
- 3 MI-8 transport helicopters
That is a total of 26 air assets over just 9 days!
If this is even near to the truth it is a catastrophic loss rate for the Ukrainian air force.
Is this even possible, one might ask. I believe it is. In October 2022, after a decades long development phase, media announced the first kill of a Ukrainian plane by a Russian R-37M long-range air-to-air missile:
The R-37 was developed from the R-33. For compatibility with aircraft that did not have the MiG-31’s sophisticated radar, the semi-active seeker was replaced with a variant of the Agat 9B-1388 active seeker. Similarly, folding tail controls allow semi-conformal carriage on planes that are not as big as the MiG-31.Mid-body strakes enhance lift and hence increase range. According to Defence Today, the range depends on the flight profile, from 80 nautical miles (150 km) for a direct shot to 215 nautical miles (398 km) for a cruise glide profile.
The R-37M designation has since been used for a modernized variant of the missile, also known as RVV-BD (Raketa Vozduh-Vozduh Bolyshoy Dalnosty, or Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile). R-37M’s range exceeds 200 km, and it is capable of hypersonic speeds (~Mach 5). It will be carried by the modernized MiG-31BM interceptors and Su-35S and Su-57 multirole fighters. It is not known whether the long-range air-to-air missile for the Su-57, designated as Izdeliye 810, is a derivative of the R-37M.
The missile can attack targets at altitudes of 15–25,000 meters, guided semi-actively or actively through the Agat 9B-1388 system.
The R-37M is claimed to have a maximum reach of 400 kilometer (~250 miles) and a hypersonic speed of Mach 5-6. It can be fired from safe airspace, outside of any Ukrainian air-defense range, deep into Ukraine.
In February 2023 Ukraine claimed to have found the wreckage of an R-37M.
Modified Ukrainian air-planes have been used to fire British Storm Shadow missiles (and the similar French SCALP-EG) at Russian targets. I haven’t found any recent report of their successful use.
Ukrainian air assets have to fly near to the ground to survive.
The sudden increase in Ukrainian air losses points to the introduction, in large numbers, of a new variant of the R-37M with an updated targeting capability and/or an even longer range.
The U.S. plans to introduce F-16s fighter jets with ‘long range’ (100 kilometer, 60 miles) AIM-120D air-to-air missiles to Ukraine. They are clearly inferior to Russian air force capabilities and can only contribute to the losses.
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Check and mate democrats !
While the democrat party focused on making more millionaire/billionaires and shoddy/over-complex faggot weapons………………………their enemies actually build weapons that work at low cost.
The days of the democrat parties faggot forces whuppin up of dunecoons is over.
Sad trombone….wa wa
There’s just one little problem with this article. It’s complete and utter bullshit.
Like everything else russia claims.
Apparently this seems to be the case with everything Russian these days. I think you might be wrong, as incorrect.
Zappa = TCS… no doubt about it… Langelytard most likely.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Dunecoon! Is that racist, kinda like sandnigger???
DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: No I think we are not in a strong position, we are probably at the weakest point in our recent history. I think you’ve got to look at the realities of new weapons systems and new capabilities.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/10/24/macgregor_us_and_israel_special_forces_went_on_a_scouting_mission_to_gaza_and_were_shot_to_pieces.html
I wonder what updates the Mig-29’s had. All in all the aircraft shot down were old and easy pickings for a SU-35. The F-16s that the US is planning to send will be easily outclassed by the SU-35 as well. The air to air rockets the Russians are using have 4 times the range and better guidance systems that are being supplied to the Ukraine’s.
Ukraine is fighting a war that they cannot win.
Aaackshually…a rocket, by it’s very definition is an unguided weapon. I believe the term you’re looking for is “missile.”
Heeeee-Hoooorr…
Just carpet bomb Keeeeeeeeeeeeeev and get this shit over with, please.
Just carpet bomb D.C. and get this shit over with, please.
That can come after Keeeeeeeeeev and Tel Aviv.
Didn’t I read your educashumal comments regarding magazines and clippers.
Meanwhile …
Saw that at WRSA. Sounds like BS, but these days you never know.
A part of me hopes it’s true just to ramp up the hypocrisy factor should I find myself arguing with neocons, their slavishly warfriendly republinormie adherents, or superzionists of either jewish or “christian” persuasion.
Let’s see, they are going to commit another war crime, and this time they are telling them they are going to do it…… Sounds like bullshit to me.
The Russians tried this in a theater years ago and killed all the hostages. You can’t control the dose.
Not all. Just lots.
Gee. Wally.
Wonder why poot’n did NOT think of that when all the rats were holed up under that thar Steel Mill?, was it?
My guess is a pulsed plasma rifle in the 40 watt range…
Just nuke ’em from orbit…
It’s the only way to be sure….
No. A phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range.
A more important question: do they have a long-range weapon that can destroy Lindsey Graham’s pfaggot fucking ass from orbit.
Forget the long range weapon.
Think cheap drone swarm.
What movie is this from? I’ve seen this b4 , but can’t find the clips origins. It is very disturbing and realistic.
I kinda think they’ve finally weaponized ” Men who stare at Goats ” tech. Yeah, thats it.
ROTFL!
Grahamster is another one with a face only a .357 could love!
We knew before this ‘military operation’ which weapons the Russians had which were the good shit. I used to really enjoy the weapons nerdery.
But everyone who still talks about the nuts and bolts (of things they generally don’t understand) while ignoring the big picture is doing so to distract from the fact that the war is going fucking nowhere and only exists to enrich the Military Industrial Complex / Oligarchs — and to kill off the excess decent White folks.
I have sympathy for the patriots of both sides, unlike middle-eastern wars. But nothing we do is going to change the outcome. For God’s sake, stop buying the bullshit propaganda. It’s like listening to ziocucks shilling for israel.
Thank you for today’s needed dose of reality.
the us carried out airstrikes in syria tonight —
Has anyone else noticed that Zero Hedge has been bought off by the Zionists scumbags? They are now the cheerleader’s for Israel. Fuck Zero Hedge, they may as well team up with Bud Light and turn into a site for gays, and Jews…..
Hate to see that, I mostly go there for the financial stuff…….
THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER: PUTIN APPROVED RUSSIA’S NEW CLIMATE DOCTRINE
The key long-term goal of the Russian Federation’s climate policy is to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2060
The key long-term goal of the Russian Federation’s climate policy is to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2060
MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the new Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation; the document was published on the official legal information portal.
MOUR:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKKZNzNSZfFCkRjjNQZfJzHQwGvdvPgxDSrTWDjXbFJQMJTqKrrqmVdQCfNCkbklKmNb
Oh yeah, there is still a Ukrainian war, huh?
Ukraine has always been at war with …..
So, when you think we’re gonna find out about all these “laser” weapons that burn up Hawaiian towns, generate cat 5 hurricanes overnight and shoot down the glorious air ships of Commander Z and his azovian force ? Askin for a fiend, I mean friend. (Spellchex)
Zelenskyy has a face only a .357 could love.