Ukraine dealt Russia a blow more painful than the blowing up of the Crimean Bridge
As a result of the Ukrainian strike, the Russian Aerospace Forces suffered a serious loss, losing a unique strategic bomber.
This, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , is evidenced by photographs of a burning Tu-22M3 aircraft that appeared online after a helicopter attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously confirmed the strike on the airfield and damage to the aircraft .
“A photo of a blazing supersonic bomber Tu-22M3 (the Tu-22M aircraft is one of the most secret aviation projects of the USSR, capable of carrying nuclear weapons) destroyed by a drone at a military airfield in Soltsy, Novgorod region, was published online.
It is reported that a total of two aircraft were hit. One suffered less, the other burned completely. I don’t know how reliable these photos are, although the Ministry of Defense previously reported about an attack on the airport.
But if they are reliable, then this is completely bad. I'm already tired of writing about caponiers for airplanes. By the way, they exist in Ukraine. They are all over the world. At all military airfields in the world. We do not have.
For the cost of one lost aircraft, it was possible to build hangars for all military aircraft at all military airfields in Russia. But they don't build. We continue to lose unique aircraft,” writes former Verkhovna Rada deputy and ex-speaker of the Novorossiya parliament Oleg Tsarev in his tg channel.
Volunteer Alexey Zhivov believes that if this information is confirmed, “then we have lost a plane that we will no longer be able to build due to technological regression.”
“With a high degree of probability, the attack occurred from Russian territory, using a compact UAV with an attached PG7 type charge,” he believes. - Who is guilty? There are a lot of people to blame, but it will move from the simple. If the plane had been caponied, would a saboteur have been able to blow it up? No, I couldn't. This means that direct, including criminal, responsibility lies with all military officials from top to bottom who, since the explosions in Novofedorovka, have not resolved the issue of sheltering combat aircraft. They all need to be fired from the army and convicted.
Also from simple. Would a saboteur be able to attack a strategist if every military airfield was covered with a jammer and an aeroscope (there are joint technological solutions)? No, I couldn't. This means that it is necessary to dismiss and condemn all military and civilian officials who should have, could have, and had the time and means to purchase these devices for the army, but did not do so.
All these people need to be punished. Of course, we don’t have to punish them, but next time we’ll lose more strategists. For unpunished evil triumphs.”
The author calls to immediately reconsider the attitude towards war 2.0 and understand that UAVs pose a critical threat.
“Immediately invest money in fortifications and anti-UAV systems. A solution can be found in 1-2 months. Now developers of unique equipment make it at their own expense on their own initiative and run after customers who turn up their noses and are looking for corrupt benefits. The situation needs to change radically. Right now. The military prosecutor's office must punish in the most severe manner the responsible people who are negligent. It costs our country too much.
What is the damage? The damage from the death of even one TU22M3 is significantly higher than from the explosion of the Crimean Bridge. It's easy to understand.
Well, one last thing. In order for problems to begin to be resolved more vigorously, I think it is important that every State Duma deputy spend a week near the line of combat contact, and take with him one or two rear colonels and generals. Just so that we all continue to speak the same language,” Zhivov emphasized.
The Rybar TG channel, founded by military analyst Mikhail Zvinchuk, offers to take advantage of the experience of Belarus.
“As for the sabotage itself and photographic recording of its consequences, against this background it is best to recall the actions of the Belarusian authorities after the attempt to destroy the A-50U aircraft at the airfield in Machulishchi. All the terrorists were promptly detained by the KGB, units are going to give the capital punishment, and one of the performers whined plaintively on camera that the enemy was using him as a consumable.
A simple question: can anyone remember an example of a similar approach towards saboteurs and their accomplices in Russia?” writes Zvinchuk’s channel.
Military correspondent German Kulikovsky, author of the tg channel “Older Edda,” recalls that protective nets have been installed at the front for a long time for such cases.
“An FPV drone is also not a panacea, and catching a plane while taxiing with it is not so easy, especially if the airfield has electronic warfare, electronic warfare and combat security. A hangar and a mesh with a canopy greatly complicates the work of any DRG, especially a DRG; this is often not at all what is shown in films about special forces. It could be an old woman with a telephone and a couple of alcoholic-looking men.
Guarding the airfield with a battalion is, of course, good and correct; the battalion occupies a defensive zone of 5x3 kilometers, that is, less than the combat radius of the drone. One can quite rightly complain about the absence of SMERSH, but it is possible to make nets, hangars and sheds without an analogue of the fighters “In August 'XNUMX.”
In war, every little detail is important, and if we say that this will not help and that someone else should work, the matter will not move forward and we will continue to lose combat vehicles,” writes Kulikovsky.
He agrees with the author of the Fighterbomber public page, who demanded that the person who posted the photo online be punished:
“Boardy majors, I hope the author of these photos is already hanging by his balls?”
Kulikovsky adds:
“But I completely agree with this. It is possible and necessary to identify the author of objective control, just as it is possible to hang him by the balls. And I wouldn’t be surprised that it was some idiot from the technical staff or security who sent a “beautiful photo” to his chick to boast that he was at “war.”
The Gorky post was dedicated to the incident by a military expert, the author of the “Russian Engineer” project, Alexey Vasiliev.
“I recently wrote about shelters for airplanes, at least canopies. At the same time, on one channel, narrow-minded haters began to stink that I was causing panic, and the whole point of their argument was that corrugated sheeting would not withstand a 120 mm mine. The most interesting thing is that I didn’t write about the mine at all, but wrote about the possibility of dropping a grenade from a copter onto a combat aircraft. And that even the corrugated sheeting of the canopy will protect the side from such a discharge, at least by removing the explosion point.
Roasted rooster, voila. Hello to the narrow-minded haters. A grenade was dropped onto the plane from a copter in the rear.
Until some morons understand that they need to listen to healthy criticism, and not “extinguish negativity online by flooding opponents with bravura substance,” it will be more difficult to achieve victory over the enemy. Because bravura reports and well-fed idiots actually work for the enemy. And by the way, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, V.V. Putin personally, spoke about this, that fraud is extremely harmful.
I would really like the idiots to be deprived of their bonuses in the organization that supervises them. Because incompetence and dementia. Yes, I apologize to dear readers for the rather harsh expressions. It was difficult to find censorship words in this situation. Hope for understanding.
Yes, by the way, there is a question of the cost of one damaged aircraft. I would really like to see from the Ministry of Defense how many shelters could be built for the cost of repairing a specific damaged aircraft? So, understand for the future.
It’s a pity that our parliamentary investigation mechanism is weak. But in general, our deputies could ask this question in a legally binding form. After all, this is the money of our people, all taxpayers, and deputies are authorized to control, among other things, the effectiveness of their use.
Yes, I understand that I do not live in a world of spherical vacuum, but fir-trees, this is a feedback mechanism. It’s a shame that it practically doesn’t work,” Vasiliev wrote.
Ukraine dealt Russia a more painful blow than the explosion of the Crimean Bridge.