"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (10 Viewers)

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GrauGeist said:
However, NATO has had years of designing countermeasures against Soviet/Russian SAM systems including new threat upgrades..
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It's not so easy in reality. Unless using the likes of F-35s, then the reality is that the air defence environment in Ukraine (and arguable elsewhere if this were to escalate) is extremely challenging. It isn't just the case of using some new countermeasure systems either. If it were the case then the west could easily have said to the Ukrainians ages ago "here, go bolt this onto your Su-24s, Su-25s and MiG-29s and go use your airpower to end this thing". This is also something that worries me about the F-16s that many seem to think will be some sort of silver bullet.
 
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GTX said:
It's not so easy in reality. Unless using the likes of F-35s, then the reality is that the air defence environment in Ukraine (and arguable elsewhere if this were to escalate) is extremely challenging. It isn't just the case of using some new countermeasure systems either. If it were the case then the west could easily have said to the Ukrainians ages ago "here, go bolt this onto your Su-24s, Su-25s and MiG-29s and go use your airpower to end this thing". This is also something that worries me about the F-16s that many seem to think will be some sort of silver bullet.
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I refer you back to the detailed post by Biff, who has had hands-on, real time experience with this exact situation:

"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again."

GrauGeist / Thump, I watched this video and agree with the vast majority of it. The particular part that I don’t agree with is the situational awareness attributed to the Russian pilots by the LtCol F35 test pilot. I think their SA for the most part is well below that of the equivalent NATO /...
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GTX said:
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Mystery drone strikes Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl

Reports emerged regarding an incident at the Russian oil refinery "Slavneft-YANOS" in Yaroslavl, where an unknown kamikaze drone crashed onto the premises. The Militarnyi news agency cited Russian Governor Mikhail Yevraev, who said the facility's electronic warfare system, designed to protect...
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