A Storm Of 3,000 Ukrainian Bomblets Blew Up Four Russian Jets At Their Base In Crimea
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/17/a-storm-of-3000-ukrainian-bomblets-blew-up-four-russian-jets-at-their-base-in-crimea/
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A Storm Of 3,000 Ukrainian Bomblets Blew Up Four Russian Jets At Their Base In Crimea
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/17/a-storm-of-3000-ukrainian-bomblets-blew-up-four-russian-jets-at-their-base-in-crimea/
by Watcher_2023
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From article:
It was one of the biggest single-day losses for Russian air power in the Ukraine war
That’s a great job, taking the war to the gutter rat Russians is paying off. Air assets are hard to replace, this degrades Russian ability to carry out strikes, air defense and a host of other force multiplier operations. Those logistical lines are starting to get longer and Russia is losing critical aircraft that could be used to defend it. It’s like Putler never planned for this war, is military that incompetent? Fuck Putler and barbaric Russian horde attacking Ukraine!
>Belbek airfield is protected by a Russian air force S-400 long-range surface-to-air missile battery…
>On Tuesday night, the Ukrainian army fired a salvo of 190-mile range M39A1…
>An M39 scatters nearly a thousand grenade-sized bomblets. An M39A1 sacrifices warhead size for a larger rocket motor—and scatters just 300 bomblets.
>According to one popular Russian military blogger, the Ukrainians fired 10 of the two-ton ATACMS at Belbek on Tuesday.
>The damage was extensive. A radar and two launchers from the S-400 battery were destroyed. A fuel depot burned through the night.
>The imagery revealed that two MiG-31s, an Su-27 or similar Su-30 and what appears to be a MiG-29K burned to the ground in their roofless revetments.
The S-400 can’t shoot down 10 old lumbering short range ballistic missiles? Is this just typical S-400 performance or did something go terribly wrong?