[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The defense forces recently shot down that Russian A-50 aircraft from a Soviet S-200 air defense system sources of UP in GUR shared.

S-200 is a long-range anti-aircraft missile system (up to 300 km)

The transport complex is capable of operating under conditions of intensive radio countermeasures and is designed to combat aircraft, cruise missiles and drones at altitudes of 0.3-40 km, flying at speeds of up to 4300 km/h, at ranges of up to 300 km.

The S-200 uses semi-active homing missiles. After detecting a target, a special radar "illuminates" it - continuously and automatically follows the target by angular coordinates, speed and distance. Thank you Russia.

The crew of 10 occupants died in the Russian A-50U plane that was shot down.

Among them are 5 majors, 3 captains, an ensign and a lieutenant, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to an interlocutor in the State Government. There were no casualties on the ground from the plane crash.

Currently, it is known that there were 7 long-range radar detection aircraft in russian military transport aviation and now 6 remain.

[SDI]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The crew of 10 occupants died in the Russian A-50U plane that was shot down.

Among them are 5 majors, 3 captains, an ensign and a lieutenant, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to an interlocutor in the State Government. There were no casualties on the ground from the plane crash.

Currently, it is known that there were 7 long-range radar detection aircraft in russian military transport aviation and now 6 remain.

Just hard to believe that a S-200 complex managed to shot this down. Maybe just a cover story, thats very old soviet tech.

[Rfneimad]

Originally Posted by SDI ↗

Just hard to believe that a S-200 complex managed to shot this down. Maybe just a cover story, thats very old soviet tech.

They like strapped a starlink to it or something. If MamaYaga and Su Storm Shadow can exist then they can upderp the S200

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by SDI ↗

Just hard to believe that a S-200 complex managed to shot this down. Maybe just a cover story, thats very old soviet tech.

What is a secret is how the Ukrainians transformed the S-200’s eight-ton 5V28 boost-glide rocket—which the Soviet Union’s KB-1 munitions bureau designed to shoot down American nuclear-armed bombers—into Ukraine’s most powerful deep-strike weapon.

But one missile expert has a theory. Trent Telenko, a former quality auditor with the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency, is highly familiar with the S-200, its 5V28 missile and the SAM system’s subsystems.

Telenko theorized that maybe Ukrainian technicians replaced the 5V28’s nose-mounted radar with a new seeker—perhaps the radar from the new Grom-2 surface-to-surface missile.

The Grom-2, which Ukrainian firm KB Pivdenne has been developing as a replacement for Ukraine’s existing Tochka-U ballistic missiles, is a single-stage, solid-fueled rocket with a 310-mile range and a scene-matching millimeter-wave radar that should allow the rocket precisely to alter its flight path as it streaks toward its target.

The 5V28 certainly has space for the Grom-2’s compact radar. The 5V28 “is a honking big missile with a really heavy and voluminous seeker space,” Telenko wrote on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter. You could add a millimeter-wave radar and also pack in hundreds of pounds of explosives, Telenko pointed out.

With a modern seeker and a heavier warhead, the old 5V28—hundreds of which the Ukrainian air force retired back in 2013—becomes a potent surface-strike weapon. It ranges around 250 miles, if you believe most sources, or 370 miles if you believe panicky Russian propagandists.

We didn’t know the Ukrainians were firing the brutish missiles at aerial targets until this week.

But the development makes sense. The S-200 isn’t the most accurate air-defense system in the world. It’s certainly less accurate than the Patriot is. But what the S-200 lacks in finesse, it makes up for in sheer power.

The eight-ton 5V28 “is a honking big missile with a really heavy and voluminous seeker space,” wrote Trent Telenko, a former quality auditor with the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency. The 5V28 packs a massive, 500-pound warhead.

The Soviet Union developed the S-200 in the early 1960s specifically to target U.S. Air Force heavy bombers. Ukraine finally retired the air-defense dinosaurs more than a decade ago owing to their relative cumbersomeness—they’re heavy and bulky and difficult to transport—as well as the high cost of upgrading them.

But an upgrade was on the table. Before the current, wider war, the Ukrainian government considered reactivating some S-200s and retrofitting them with the same new seeker Ukrainian industry had developed for the smaller S-125 air-defense system.

Given the reasonably good accuracy of the resuscitated Ukrainian S-200s in the surface-to-surface role, there’s a good chance Kyiv’s engineers have installed a better seeker in the 5V28: either the S-125’s new seeker or some other model. Whether that same seeker might work in the surface-to-air role is an open question.

Regardless, the Friday shoot-down was a return to form for a classic missile the Soviets specifically designed for killing big, slow planes. An A-50 is nothing if not big and slow.

Now, the billion-dollar question: how many 5V28s does Ukraine have left? The Ukrainian air force may have possessed hundreds—even a thousand—missiles when it last retired the S-200 around 2013.

But big, chemical-filled missiles don’t last forever. So it’s possible the Ukrainians got fresh batches of 5V28s from their allies who still operate the S-200. The Poles, maybe. Or even the Bulgarians.

[kellyhound]

The German government reported on 26 February that it had sent another batch of military aid to Ukraine. The batch included, among other things, artillery shells, drones and demining vehicles.

Details: According to the list, Ukraine has received 14,000 rounds of 155-mm ammunition from the Bundeswehr stockpiles, produced at German plants, as well as four WISENT 1 mine clearing tanks.

In addition to this, Germany also provided three mobile, remote controlled and protected mine clearing systems, material for explosive ordnance disposal and 250 tool kits with explosive material.

The package also includes 10 Vector reconnaissance drones, 22 anti-drone sensors and jammers, 12 satellite connection terminals and 4 border protection vehicles.

The German government has also updated the list of aid it plans to supply Ukraine with in the future with 10 additional armoured recovery vehicles Bergepanzer 2 and 20 anti-drone sensors and jammers.

Earlier this month German chancellor Olaf Scholz stated during Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Berlin that Germany was getting ready to allocate a new €1.1 billion military aid package for Ukraine.

In total Germany has allocated or committed €28 billion to military aid for Ukraine, out of them €7 billion within 2024.

[TehOperator]

It might just be me.... But does anyone else feel like this drone investment might get.... Screwed?

Like I don't know. Using a system of cameras and microphones attached to a flak cannon controlled entirely by AI?

Thus eliminating the need for jamming, and allies can still fly there drones... Just now the enemy.

Should be strapping that to a 4-wheeler, not a friggin jammer. Lol

Also, cool vid:

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The Russians complain that the Armed Forces are using the tactic of using master UAVs for FPV drones

The base ship drops FPV drones in the rear of the Russian Federation to launch strikes at a depth of 20-30 km.

FPV with a heavier payload is applied to the mother drone (Baba Yaga type) at maximum distance and altitude. After that, the FPV "disappears" and flies to the target

The mother drone also acts as a repeater. In this way, the drone saves battery and flies a greater distance + the weight of the warhead increases.

Rather ingenious.

[depraved1]

Go Ukraine!

[depraved1]

“ Other ISW findings for February 21:

The occupation governor of the Zaporizhia region Yevgeny Balytsky openly admitted that the Russian authorities forcibly deport Ukrainian citizens who oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine or "offend" Russia, and hinted that the Russian occupation forces execute Ukrainian citizens without trial or investigation.”


Yep, that’s definitely Commie behavior!

[TehOperator]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Rather ingenious.

US already has one, it basically lands and 20 small drones come off. Scan the area, and when they hit a door they just land and wait for someone to come through & explode