Ukraine reported the defeat of two additional Su-34 aircraft parked at the airport. The loss was confirmed by the fact that a fire bomber whined and dispensed valuable advice. There is only a nuance that may not be the most obvious at first glance. FB demands that the planes be removed from the front, but they were removed, one might say, nevertheless. This time he arrived in Marinovka, Volgograd region, which is about 450 km from LBS. Of course no one launched rockets from LBS, that is, the launch range was about 500-600 km and this seems to be a record for "Neptune Long". The Su-34 is the main Russian supplier of KAB, and their number of applications is only increasing. For example, in September there was a record, about 9,000 bombs were launched in total, or 300 per day on average. If we assume that on average 4 KAB aircraft are launched per sortie, this means that 75 sorties per day have to be carried out by carriers alone, not including cover aircraft. The need to move aircraft beyond the destruction range of Ukrainian missiles means a multiple increase in flight time for each of them, and if you do as required by the FB, that is, simply move them away, 1000 km from Ukraine, if a distance of 500-600 km can no longer be considered safe, then the question arises: are there powerful attack resources to support the current? Now we can say that the planes have already been removed. Only missiles have never flown that far before. Storm Shadow has a shorter range, Flamingo and UAVs are ineffective, and for Neptune, as I said above, this is the first such long-range hit. In fact, both of these aircraft were already approximately at the edge of a conditional safe distance.

Ukraine reported the defeat of two additional Su-34 aircraft parked at the airport. The loss was confirmed by the fact that a fire bomber whined and dispensed valuable advice. There is only a nuance that may not be the most obvious at first glance. FB demands that the planes be removed from the front, but they were removed, one might say, nevertheless. This time he arrived in Marinovka, Volgograd region, which is about 450 km from LBS. Of course no one launched rockets from LBS, that is, the launch range was about 500-600 km and this seems to be a record for "Neptune Long". The Su-34 is the main Russian supplier of KAB, and their number of applications is only increasing. For example, in September there was a record, about 9,000 bombs were launched in total, or 300 per day on average. If we assume that on average 4 KAB aircraft are launched per sortie, this means that 75 sorties per day have to be carried out by carriers alone, not including cover aircraft. The need to move aircraft beyond the destruction range of Ukrainian missiles means a multiple increase in flight time for each of them, and if you do as required by the FB, that is, simply move them away, 1000 km from Ukraine, if a distance of 500-600 km can no longer be considered safe, then the question arises: are there powerful attack resources to support the current? Now we can say that the planes have already been removed. Only missiles have never flown that far before. Storm Shadow has a shorter range, Flamingo and UAVs are ineffective, and for Neptune, as I said above, this is the first such long-range hit. In fact, both of these aircraft were already approximately at the edge of a conditional safe distance.