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Russian precision strikes are destroying Ukrainian military infrastructure in the rear regions. Russian missiles are pounding Ukrainian airfields on a regular basis. On August 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed of the recent successful strikes in Ukrainian rear.
Russian Iskander-M missile attacked Ukrainian Mirgorod military airfield in the Poltava region. As a result of the precision strike, Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed.
As usual, Russian reconnaissance UAV was coordinating the attack and filmed the results.
Ukrainian air defense is still failing to protect the strategically important facilities despite the transfer of additional expensive air defense systems to Ukraine.
damn! the iskander is very precise.
may be fake.
you would like but it’s not so. :d
question: why does ukraine still have airfields?… or for that matter bridges???…
don’t you understand, how difficult airfields are to destroy? they are basically a large areas covered with tarmac. today you drop a big bomb, or a missile, which makes a hole, and next morning it’s repaired.
1-2 days enough to restore or hours, because russian military airfields are covered with concrete slabs, just change damaged ones and use airstrip again. need to destroy radar and control towers, but you can’t destroy whole airstrip without nuclear strike.
japan was still sending up fighter defence in the last week of the war against the us, despite three years of unrelenting us bombardment.
old planes are much smaller, they can take off from short ground strips. modern fighters need around 1 km of solid flat surface or a catapult. i don’t know about western experience, but in the ussr and later even roads can be used as reserve landing strip in war time.
which is my point. destroying airfields does not eliminate the capacity to launch combat aircraft. p-51 required 3/4 of a kilometre to take off, more than 1k to land. a loaded f-15 requires 1.2 km of run, but only 350m or so with no load.
amerikan jets require pristine tarmacs—russian can ascend from nearly any tarmac
the nazis need a carrot and hopium. without airports enemy jets cannot be destroyed and without bridges no tanks and other stuff can be transported to the frontlines for certain destruction. and the new border will run from kharkiv to odessa, so rf does not want to destroy their own bridges lmao
why does it still have nazis? somebody’s been asleep on the job.
how many combat aircraft does kiev have now, must be in the single digits.
they got everything soviet made from the former washow packt countries as well as a lot from african and asian legacy users.
i am actually surprised we have not seen mig-23 and su-22 yet.
and still waiting for burning and exploding f16s!
my question would be why don’t tey have basic scrim over each bay? i would have 100 dummy aircraft out that were regularly moved about like a game of hide the ball under the cups.
thats a lot of work
that’s what the serbs did with dummy tanks and it was so effective that clinton up and decided that bombing civilian infrastructure and civilians was the only way forward.
weasel clark was asked outright how many tanks he’d managed to take out and he began mumbling and sputtering like austin talking to congress about how many jihadis he’d manage to train that didn’t run off and join isis.
the plane was likely never capable of flying and placed there for russia to waste an iskander. kazakhstan transferred some broken soviet era jets to ukraine, go read about it.
likely, or possibly? what’s your source for this specific event?
his ass*ole perhaps!
i strongly suspect that the rf has produced so many iskanders these past two years that they’re running out of storage space and decided to use them on pretty much anything, anywhere, anytime.