Minus 25 aircraft since the beginning of the year: as the Armed Forces have become a night horror for Russian aviation - expert

"Since the beginning of 2024, the forces of Ukraine have already destroyed 25 Russian aircraft of different classes - not only in the sky, but also on Earth. But much more interesting are the numbers as the processes and components that were destroyed during this period," the analyst said. Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces have been deprived of the enemy of two unique DRLV A-50 aircraft and seriously damaged the IL-22 management point.

This undermined the potential of Russian aviation in exploration and adjustment of rocket strikes. "It was for this reason that the blows deep into the territory of Ukraine became more rare, limited to one and a half or two weeks, and in the near area the use of reconnaissance drones of the near radius of action, which adjust mainly ballistic means of defeat of the operative-tactical level, increased," Kovalenko explained.

Hunting for planes of the Russian Federation in 2024 looked like this: before the start of a full-scale war Russia had up to 200 different Su-25 aircraft, a verified loss of 31 of them. However, the expert assured that real losses exaggerate the confirmed at 2-2. 5 times, and each such is "irreversible". The destruction of these storms is increasingly bringing the invaders to the "paralysis of fire aerial support for land operations at a tactical level.

" At the same time, they do not have a full replacement of the Russian Federation. According to the expert, regular blows to the airfields of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - an inseparable part of the "extrusion" of Russian aviation. It was the hottest in the Crimea, where only at the Belbek airfield was destroyed by two MiG-31BM interceptors, one multifunctional Su-27 and MiG-29 fighter.

"Aircraft were destroyed at the airfield that covered the Division of the ZRS C-400, which" has no analogues in the world ", which, incidentally, was also eliminated with them! That is, it is a fairly eloquent hint of the aerodromes even in locations, even in locations, Until recently, a deep rear for permanent placement or even a lump of tactical, front aircraft, is no longer possible.

According to his forecast, by the end of the year, a single airfield that would constantly use Russia may remain on the end of the year. Even some of the airports in Russia itself got into the area of ​​influence of at least shock drones. The analyst explained that the Dron-Kamikadze Flight range is 1500 kilometers. At the same time, it will be "inappropriate and impractical" from the front from the front of 2000 kilometers from the front, so it will be in the area of ​​the lesion.

"A completely different story will begin if Ukraine receives permission from its Western partners to use the means of lesions that pass to us. Because the arrival of the drone on the shikovka is one thing, and ATACMS with the combat part of the cassette type is quite different," he added . We will remind, intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom reported how the opening of a new section of the front in Kharkiv region influenced the fighting in Donetsk region.