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| Tactics Associated with the Russian A50 Takedown This Week |
| 2024-01-16 |
| [Sarcastosaurus Substack] Long, detailed, and with pretty photos of the Beriev A-50 — of which only three were still mission-capable before this incident — and its attendant airborne command post. But the writer starts out with this: So much is going on the last two days - in Ukraine and in the Middle East - that I can’t even decide what way to look as first and what to comment about. Even less so can I summarise all of this in form of ‘useful’ articles - at once. Sure, I’ll try, but… What am I talking about? While most of public attention in the West is drawn by Ukrainians killing one of the last few operational Beriev A-50s airborne early warning aircraft of the Russian Air-Space Force (VKS), the Israelis continue genociding the Palestinians, plus are bombing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) at and around Aleppo International Airport in north-western Syria; the IRGC has deployed ballistic missiles against the US al-Harir base and (possibly) also the US Consulate in Erbil, in northern Iraq; then the IRGC targeted the positions of the Qatari-supported HTS (ex-Jabhat an-Nusra) in the Harim mountains of Western Idlib; while the Houthis in Yemen have attacked – and this time hit – another of merchants transiting the southern Red Sea. Related: Beriev A-50: 2024-01-15 Ukraine says it destroyed $330M Russian spy plane and airborne command post Beriev A-50: 2023-02-28 Putin's £274million spy plane 'is destroyed in drone attack near Minsk by pro-Ukraine Belarus group' Beriev A-50: 2021-06-30 Highly sophisticated explosives used in drone attack point to role of Pakistan state actors |
| Posted by:Clem Elmish4239 |
| #2 What, no mention of the Navy's missiling of the Houthi's? I am depressed. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-01-16 14:18 |
| #1 Author has crap attitude but provides a good tech retrospective on airborne radars. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-16 08:53 |