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| Review of the Remaining A50 "Fleet" by Tail Number |
| 2024-02-25 |
| [TomCooper] Because it seems that there is a hunting season for Russian A-50s in Ukraine, every February, and in the wake of already the second such loss within a month (for the first one, see here), there are lots of questions in style of, ‘and how many (Beriyev) A-50 SRDLO (AEW) aircraft are left in Russia’? So, I thought: OK, lets check. In a matter of some 30 minutes of browsing around the social media came into being the following ‘photo-review’. Please mind: none of following photos is mine, found all of them at different websites. Their use is really, ‘for review purposes only’. |
| Posted by:Slenter Panda4300 |
| #9 ^ Not by me...perhaps you perceived |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-25 18:11 |
| #8 Dale, you've been so full of $hit for so long you need to go to a proctologist for an ear exam. OK, go ahead and ban me. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-02-25 17:45 |
| #7 beyond any possibility of taking on a peer-level air force Where would they find one? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-25 11:30 |
| #6 It's spelled "aisle", comrade. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-25 10:39 |
| #5 #4, ^ Tissues in isle three. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-02-25 08:47 |
| #4 ^ *SNORT* "Nothing to see here!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-25 07:53 |
| #3 Wishful thinking. When useful production and deployment will occur quickly with many upgrades. Besides "Arguably, after two years of intensive operations over Ukraine, availability of remaining A-50Us is !!rumored!! to be ‘low’. That said, even at ‘best times’ (early during the war), the Russians never deployed them the way NATO would do so: i.e. it never kept 2-3-4-5 aircraft airborne and ‘on station’ for 24/7. This is simply not the way the VKS operates. Instead, they were deployed to improve the protection of zones of special interest". |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-02-25 07:44 |
| #2 ...IF this is accurate - and the guy seems to have done his homework - the Russians may be beyond any possibility of taking on a peer-level air force until they get a functioning, fully manned AWACS force back. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-02-25 07:27 |
| #1 USAF is retiring its E-3's, but I doubt they'd sell any to Russia. Though, who knows, if Joe is re-elected at the neocons want to extend the conflict indefinitely. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-25 07:25 |