The Armed Forces destroy Russian aviation with rockets to Patriot and NASAMS ending - Forbes

Among them are the nine the best fighters-bombers Su-34 and Su-35, as well as a rare radar aircraft A-50 them. Beriyeva. According to the publication, it is much more combat aircraft than Russians can afford to lose in more than one week. After all, the Russian aerospace industry is trying to produce from two dozen new combat aircraft a year. "That is, Russians lose planes 20 times faster than they can replace them," journalists say.

The publication suggests that the Ukrainian military-air forces have allocated some of their American missile launchers to mobile air defense groups, which move in close proximity to the front line, arranging "ambushes" on the planes of the Russian Federation. (145 km) and then quickly relocated to avoid counter -attacks. "But the distance at which the Ukrainians were shot down by A-50 on Friday-about 120 miles-hints at the fact that a larger missile system was involved.

Perhaps the old Cold War, which Ukrainian aircraft was pulled from long-term storage ", - said forbes. In addition, the journalists of the publication expressed confidence that Ukrainians have moved some of the two dozen of their Nasams land lamps with a radius of 25 miles (40 km) closer to the front line. In the end, the Russians discovered and destroyed the NASAMS starting installation near Zaporozhye.

As they add in the publication, Ukraine may have deployed all the above systems and others to create a "hot lane". "In other words, Ukraine may eventually remain without its best air defense missiles," Forbes says.

At the same time, journalists do not exclude that the actions of the Russian troops contributed to the sharp increase in the loss of aviation of the Russian Federation, since the Russian military-air forces carried out more departures closer to the front line, suppressing Ukrainian troops to promote their land troops.

The Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies said that "the opponent has overcome the fear of using aviation directly above the battlefield - and although this leads to the loss of aircraft, its land troops receive a significant advantage in fire power. " Such a "splash" of Russian shock departments gives Ukrainian air defense more goals. Therefore, they knock down more Russian aircraft.

The efforts of Ukraine are also helped by the fact that Russian pilots are increasingly noticing Ukrainian missile launches. Once, Russian air space forces were counting on their nine or so active radar aircraft A-50, organized in three "orbits" three planes in the south, east and north to expand the touch cover throughout Ukraine.

Having damaged one A-50 UAV in 2023 and knocking down two more A-50 this year, the Ukrainians eliminated a third of the touch surface and created "blind zones", where it is difficult for Russian pilots to detect approaching missiles.

"Since both parties spend resources they cannot restore-Ukrainians of American production missiles; Russians their Su-34, Su-35 and A-50-both sides in the Russian-Ukrainian war conduct short-term campaigns that they hope They will provide them with long -term advantage, " - the message reads. According to journalists, it is obvious that Ukrainian air forces aim to use several of their last Patriot and Nasams missiles to deplete Russian aviation and prevent future bombardment.

Meanwhile, Russian PCS seeks to break more Ukrainian garrisons and to help their land troops win positions, "before the SUD (SU manufacturer) will be depleted due to lack of aircraft and experienced crews. " We will remind, on February 27 Mykola Oleshchuk declared that the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the second time a day was knocked down by a Russian fighter Su-34. According to him, such losses of aviation were to think and at least for a while to "stop" aviation meat storms ".