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WARSAW, March 16 (Reuters) - Poland has broken up a espionage network operating in the country, the defence minister said on Thursday, after private broadcaster RMF FM reported that a group of spies working for Russia had been detained.

RMF reported on Wednesday that Polish security services had detained six people suspected of spying for Russia. According to the broadcaster the group had been planning sabotage activities.

Reuters was unable to independently confirm the report.

[...]

According to the RMF report, the six people arrested were from countries to the east of Poland and were working for Russian intelligence. The spies had hidden cameras on important railway routes, mainly in the southern Podkarpackie region.


According to RMF, cameras were found close to the Jasionka airport near Rzeszow, which has become a key transfer point for weapons and ammunition being delivered to Ukraine.

RMF reported that security had been stepped up around key railway routes and critical infrastructure as a result of the discovery of the spy network.


Poland breaks up spy network, says defence minister

Poland has broken up a espionage network operating in the country, the defence minister said on Thursday, after private broadcaster RMF FM reported that a group of spies working for Russia had been detained.
www.reuters.com
 

Both the U.S. and Russia have signaled an interest in hunting for an advanced, $32 million drone downed over the Black Sea on Tuesday, but the search is complicated by the fact the unmanned aerial aircraft plunged into deep water near Crimea.

The U.S. will also face serious limitations of what American crews could achieve in a search area close to Russian territory.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) declined to speak on the specifics but said the recovery remains a "priority."

"We take the protection and recovery of this aircraft very seriously, but the aircraft has not been recovered at this time," a USAFE spokesperson said in a statement.

Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. was looking into how it might retrieve the MQ-9 Reaper drone but admitted it may not be recovered after it fell into "very deep water."

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at a press briefing later Wednesday the drone is in waters as deep as 5,000 feet.

"Any recovery operation is very difficult at that depth by anyone," he told reporters.

Another roadblock is the greater than yearlong absence of any U.S. ships in the Black Sea, but Milley said Washington does "have a lot of allies and friends in the area that will work through recovery operations." U.S. forces are stationed at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, which borders the Black Sea.

Meanwhile, Russia is appearing more confident in pulling the Reaper from the depths.

Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, said Moscow has the ability to recover the drone, according to the Associated Press. And Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, told Russian media they planned to search for the downed aircraft.

"I don't know if we can recover them or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it," Patrushev said, per the AP.

Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, said both Russia and the U.S. have the capabilities to retrieve objects that have fallen into deep water. But any American recovery operations could raise the risk of another escalation, Biddle added.

"The likelihood you could end up accidentally triggering something that could escalate is a more important stake than the equipment the Russians might find," he said.

US, Russia on the hunt for downed drone

Both the U.S. and Russia have signaled an interest in hunting for an advanced, $32 million drone downed over the Black Sea on Tuesday, but the search is complicated by the fact the unmanned aerial …
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I'd have to work hard to stifle a chuckle if the Russian pilot had to divert to an emergency field due to bingo fuel.
 
With Buffnut. The video confirms what the US were saying though that clip of the prop is quite a fluke. Pilot was lucky. Now, if you're going to dump fuel on the drone, wouldn't it be easier/safer to fly ahead of it and dump rather than trying the fire-bomber method?
 
RogerdeLluria said:
Reportedly this is the vid of the drone interception.


View: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1636307259855650824
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The still at the end of the video certainly shows damage, but if you look at the Reaper's layout, the rear vertical stabilizers extend out (diagonally) well beyond the prop's radius.

Hitting the prop from that angle would have done considerable damage to the starboard stabilizer.

Question is, how extensive was the damage to the Su-27?
 

Agreed...but, as I noted, there was no way for the USAF to know the extent of the damage. Actually, I'm really impressed that the DOD reporting on this incident focused solely on what was known rather than speculating on what might have been. Without sensors or visual cues to know the extent of the damage to the tail surfaces, the DOD couldn't definitively claim it...and to speculate would open them up to claims of making up problems. I think they were really smart to stick only to those things that could be definitively proved...and the video shows it for all to see.



GrauGeist said:
Question is, how extensive was the damage to the Su-27?
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Weren't you listening to the Russians? They didn't collide with the Reaper so there was no damage to the Su-27.

More seriously, the Su-27 is built like a brick outhouse so I expect the damage wouldn't be too extensive. It would be REALLY interesting if the US (a) had, and (b) released intelligence showing that the Su-27 pilot reported problems with his aircraft. That kind of evidence would really highlight the lies that Russia has told about this incident.

I agree with Thumpalumpacus about the potential comedy of the Su-27 pilot declaring bingo fuel and having to divert.
 
For the first time (probably), the Ukrainian Air Force has provided the list of incoming missiles they can or can not shoot down.
According to the spokesman Yuri Gnat.
Intercepted:
Kalibr 3M14
Kh-101/555/55
R-500 (9M728)
Kh-59
Kh-35
Not intercepted:
Iskander-M (9M723)
RS-3B Smerch
Kh-22 (120 launches since Feb 2022)
R-800 Onyx
Kh-47 Kinzhal (said to be the most dangerous)
Kh-31P and similar short-ranged AGM

According to the spokesman, any Russian missile with a ballistic trajectory is impossible or the most difficult to shoot down. He included S-300 and Tochka-U in the "ballistic" list yet did not say clearly whether were they ever intercepted or not.

Original article (in Ukrainian):

Які ракети може збивати Україна та для чого нам F-16: інтерв'ю з Юрієм Ігнатом

Захист неба став одним з найважливіших елементів у війні України з Росією. Від початку повномасштабного вторгнення Росія намагалася придушити українську ППО, але зазнала невдачі, хоча й має набагато кращі літаки й високоточні ракети.
24tv.ua
 
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