Anomaly with aviation: in Defense Express compared the strikes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and Syria

Analysts have noted that the Russians are currently overloading the planes with rockets and are forced to choose between savings of bombers' resource and intimidation of Ukraine. During a massive rocket strike in Ukraine, on August 26, 2024, Russian invaders demonstrated several anomalies concerning their Tu-95MC bombers.

In particular, it is said that now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should save resources as much as possible, and therefore, aspiring to intimidate Ukraine and inflict lesions, should overload their bombers with rockets. During the war in Syria, as the analysis showed, they used Tu-95MC planes at all. About it reports the military portal Defense Express.

OSINT analytics believe that by August 26, 2024, during rocket strikes in Ukraine, one Russian TU-95MC could have combat load in one or two X-101 missiles on the board. This is logical, because the motors of aircraft have been saving for more than 40 years. But the Russian long -range blow in Ukraine on August 26, which became the largest time and numbered at least 127 rockets and 109 drones.

The Tu-95 strategic bombers who launched winged missiles from the Volgograd region and the Caspian Sea were loaded with missiles as possible. According to the message of the Air Force Command, 77 winged X-101 missiles have entered the airspace of Ukraine. And during the reports of current threats, at about 5 am, it was announced that the activity of 11 aircraft Tu-95MC was recorded.

That is, each of them carried 7 winged missiles, and given that some of the Russian missiles falls in the territory of the Russian Federation, it may be a full load of 8 missiles X-101 each TU-95. It should be reminded that in the internal eardrum of the TU-95 it is possible to accommodate up to 6 missiles of the type X-55/X-555, but it does not fit the X-101, so pylons are used to start them.

The question arises why the Russian military was sharply neglected by the issues of motors and loaded their aircraft with winged rockets literally "under the tie". Osint analytics reminded that by February 2022 the Russians used their rocket launchers only during a campaign in Syria, and it is possible to compare with this experience.

For two years of war in Syria (from October 2015 to October 2017) the Russian Federation fired at Syria in total 200 long-range winged missiles, including 37 units of X-555 in four episodes and 56 missiles X-101 in six episodes Strategic aviation bombers in 2 years. Not very intensive when compared to Ukraine. Each time the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attracted strategic bombers to shocks in Syria, the takeoff came from the aerodrome "Engels".

And only once rockets launched from the airspace of the Russian Federation. In the other five cases, the Russian Tu-95MC to execute launches reached the area of ​​the Mediterranean or even Syria airspace, which was extremely irrational. At that time, the X-101 launches occurred from a distance of only 1000 kilometers, while the range of these winged missiles was stated-5500 kilometers. And it is impossible to find out how full the combat load of Russian strategic bombers flew.

"When there is a question of using strategic aviation for the military leadership of the Russian Federation and the Kremlin, they have to take into account two priorities at once -" savings "of aircraft motor and at the same time the maximum psychological impact on the enemy, in this case - on us," the analysts say. It can be assumed that in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians, the Russians decided not to save the motor of their valuable bombers.