New on MoA: Ukraine’s Sudden High Air Losses Likely Caused By New Russian Missiles
I am not sure how valid this is but I am sure it is relevant:
Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55 – 16:58 UTC · Oct 24, 2023Military expert Vladislav Shurygin: The Pentagon has become sharply concerned about the suddenly increased effectiveness of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
In two weeks, the Russians staged a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least 10 of their aircraft (according to other sources, 14).
Moreover, all of them were shot down far from the front line and outside the radius of Russian air defense systems, as well as outside the standard radius of Russian fighter missiles. Those pilots who were able to eject reported that until the moment their planes were hit, they did not receive warning information about the attack from the appropriate warning systems.
The Americans believe that the Russian Aerospace Forces have acquired new missiles capable of not only hitting targets at a great distance, but also, after launch, independently pursuing a target without illuminating it from the aircraft’s radar, using a radio signature to guide it (the target).
Now Americans carefully check this information and consider it critically important. Since, if it is confirmed, it means that the Russians have acquired a weapon that will neutralize all the advertised advantages of their new main fighter, the F-35.
Vladislav Shurygin is indeed a Russian ‘military expert’ who has had various appearances on Russian talk shows.
The claim that there is ‘a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky’ is valid if the recent daily reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense are near to reality. I for one believe they are.
The typical Ukrainian air-force loss rate over the first three quarters of this year was one to three air planes or helicopters per week.
Since the mid of October the Russian daily reports claimed, according to my notes, the shot down of:
- 17 Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter aircraft
- 2 Ukrainian SU-24 tactical bombers
- 3 Ukrainian SU-25 close air support jets
- 1 Ukrainian L-39 fighter jet trainer
- 3 MI-8 transport helicopters
That is a total of 26 air assets over just 9 days!