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#Russian (rather chaotic) assessment of πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Air Defence.
Source: πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί. (my notes in brackets)
- πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί AD can intercept πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ SS-21 (but not Tu-141/143)
- πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί decreased πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Air Force activity (but πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί don’t fly into πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ aware of HARMs, & FAB bombs are useless)
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- πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Bayraktar TB2 are out of game (reality: πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί HVTs keep away from TB2s)
- SA-15 Tor adapted to πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Navy (makeshift projects)
- S-300 effective against πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ ground targets (can employ salvo strikes saturating πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ AD)
- BUK-M3 as counterbattery radar (zooparks are too "blind")
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- only Pantsir-SM-TBM with doubled (24) missile load are considered combatworthy. These TBMs have no guns, no radar, missiles only
- a significant number of πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί combat fixed & rotor wing aircraft (Su-30/34/35 & Ka-52) during the 1st phase of war was hit by πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί AD friendly fire.
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Small 🧡 about the attack probably by a suicide drone @ engels AFB, near Saratov, Russia. Facts we know are an attack on the AFB happend at 12-05 @ 06.00, which is exactly the right time to strike such a target, between 6 & 7 in the morning, AD crews would normally be changing
Shifts around this time, which would definitly means a well planned operation, distance to the target assuming it was launched somewhere in the Kharkiv region would be +- 700KM. Indications are a TU-141 drone might have been used which would mean a flight time of approx. 1 hour.
🧡 by @Euan_MacDonald ⬇️ confirms the speed matches with a TU-141 drone, which could have been adapted by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ to be gps guided onto its target, and fitted with a 75 kg warhead, also possible is it might have been fitted with a downed πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί planes transponder

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