MIG-31-ACK
>>64649458Look at the logo on the bottom left, those are Ukrainian migs.
Could be relevant.https://kyivindependent.com/russian-mig-29-fighter-jet-destroyed-in-hur-drone-attack-on-crimea/
>>64649538This is new attack
Air defense? Never heard of it.
>>64649571air defense cuck was on dinner break, please understand
Fucking hell.
I would simply not leave my long-range interceptor fighters within range of enemy kamikaze drones.
Post the .webm>>64649527Kek
i hear operation in pokrovsk is sucessfull, so said balding man of arm chair, but IT TURNED OUT!! THE CRESTS ARE BOTHERING THE BUMS OF AIRFIELDS AGAIN!! aIR DEFENSE?? MEASURING EGGS AGAIN??? fucking roosters blyad, get nothing done while gravied pants run dry,, HOHOLS!!
>>64649527>Look at the logo on the bottom left, those are Ukrainian migs.(You) - you earned it by being first post I guess.>>64649538>Could be relevantCorrect, SBU did all this overnight.>Jackpot from the SBU!>>On this night, a large-scale demilitarization was carried out in the temporarily occupied Crimea:> ▪ two Nebo-SVU early warning systems (the price of one is about $60-100 million);> ▪ 92N6 radar, which is a component of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system (approximate price for the domestic market $30 million, export price - $60 million);> ▪the Pantsir-S2 anti-aircraft missile system (the approximate price for the domestic market is $12 million, the export price is $19 million);> ▪ MiG-31 aircraft with full ammunition (estimated price is $30-50 million, depending on the configuration and weapons). And to top it all off, Russia is moving more air defence assets to Crimea so Crimea is basically Bakhmut for air defences these days, more metal for the err shredder.
>>64649720Its starting to look like those F16 will be able to do proper SEAD after all, despite existing only in double digit numbers and never leaving Ukrainian airspace
>>64649720Why they keep relocating the most expensive air defense parts into kill zone. Are they retarded?
>>64649751My guess is that they fear if they cede the skies above Crimea then they cede also air superiority over the southern land bridge, which would turn it into little more than a badly exposed salient
>>64649527fpbp
>>64649751Bruh, what choice do they have? It's not like everything is like a Tu-95 - they can't keep those MiGs in the bumfuck parts of "far east" thousands of kilometers away. And if you don't try to cover shit with AA, even more crap will get destroyed.
>>64649873Just abandon Crimea like Black Sea fleet did
>>64649877But-but... banan?
>>64649877>Putin gives a Hirohito style "the war has not developed to Russia's advantage" speech as the Russian army pulls out of Crimea.God... please... it would be so fucking funny.
>>64649895Crimea got demilitarized and denazified, all objectives were fulfilled
>>64649751i guess its to protect the shipping lane from novorossisk to istanbul and to intercept strikes going to novorossisk.
This is vandalism, they should call the cops !
>>64649720>MiG-31 aircraft with full ammunition (estimated price is $30-50 million, depending on the configuration and weapons).bratty khokhol ruins orgasm compilation
>>64649732>Its starting to look like those F16 will be able to do proper SEAD after all, despite existing only in double digit numbers and never leaving Ukrainian airspaceWho's to say why the air defences can't shoot down drones targeting them, maybe the F-16s are slinging HARMs towards the border to suppress them while drones go in and kill them.And another couple of S-3/400s in Belgorod were taken out roughly that way on the 14th too.>Ukrainian kamikaze drones destroy two Russian S-400 Triumph air defense system launchers with ammunition near the village of Raevka in the Belgorod sanitary zone. >The damage was carried out on December 14, 2025 by operators of the 15th separate artillery reconnaissance brigade "Black Forest" right during the movement of equipment.>Video - https://t.me/GeneralStaffZSU
>>64649751>Why they keep relocating the most expensive air defense parts into kill zone. If they cede air defence then they probably cede air superiority as well.With western AWACS unofficially integrated into Ukrainian air interception and Ukraine's air force being able to fly over Crimea without air defence threats and with AWACS pin-pointing air defences the instant they start to radiate, so that they get immediately destroyed, everything in Crimea is fucked, including the land bridge they flew over to get to Crimea.Imagine SDBs dropping on anything in Sevastopol harbour. Eventually on the Kerch Bridge itself.Every base in Crimea becomes untenable and eventually ukies will just fucking walk into Crimea from Kherson.Also, without Crimea, the bulk of occupied Kherson oblast becomes untenable too, cutting the land bridge becomes much easier, logistics start getting choked there, life gets very difficult for the hold outs trying to shell Kherson daily and they get starved for FPVs and eventually picked off or mopped up.Crimea is the prestige part of all of this invasion, losing that makes everything else in the Donbas worthless by comparison. Nice to have but strategicallypointless and not worth the cost of losing Crimea.>Are they retarded?Well yes but they're forced into it unless they want to cede the war and they don't appear to be ready to do that.
>>64649934>near the village of Raevka in the Belgorod sanitary zoneit was a ukrainian Belgorod sanitary zone
>>64649895>gives a Hirohito style "the war has not developed to Russia's advantage" speechI would have done that years ago.Fucking Trump would have done that, imagine if Trump were the tsar instead of Putin.>turns out the hohols got really angry about that>I thought we could work something out>I was never that interested in Crimea, I just thought the beaches would be nice for holidays>Hohols don't want us to holiday in Crimea and spend out money there>oh well, I wish them well>...>are you still talking about Crimea? Move on!>Nobody cares about Crimea any more, everyone says they never cared that much anywayThere was a good speech owning a backflip by an Australian prime minister who was basically the PM of IRL Shitposting. It happened just after an Australian diver won a medal at either commonwealth or olympic games and he just said he was inspired by her performance, the parliamentary question time gotcha moment died on the spot and he just got a few laughs from his side of the room and moved on to the next question.If you don't double down with those things and get all prideful about it, changing your mind can be spun as a strength rather than a weakness.Even Trump who is ridiculously proud does this all the time because he doesn't attach his ego (or any value whatsoever) to his words. >>64649929>bratty khokhol ruins orgasm compilationDid you paste a Tom Cruise shit-eating grin onto Budanov?
>>64649962>it was a ukrainian Belgorod sanitary zoneYou're getting ahead of yourself, it will be months before that's true again.
>>64649951>eventually ukies will just fucking walk into Crimea from Kherson.Didn't russia build an entirely new rail line from Mariupol to Crimea to prevent such an event if they lose the Kerch bridge?
>>64650142It’s in range of drones
>>64650142>Didn't russia build an entirely new rail line from Mariupol to Crimea to prevent such an event if they lose the Kerch bridge?Consider the flight path of an aircraft travelling from inland Ukraine to bomb an army base in Crimea and how that fits in relation to such a railway.
BTW: Ukie channels are reporting the loss of an Mi-24, from context I think it was probably an air defence role shooting down shaheds.Brace for incoming /chud/.
>>64650148So why cant they drone the railways being used in Ukraine already?>>64650252South Kherson is still under occupation, and with the aforementioned railways, ziggers aren't as desperate on resupply from Crimea as they were in the beginning
>>64650142They made the road and bed for the tracks but never finished it. You can even on see on Sentinel-1 radar imegery how the new rails stop before Mariupol even.
>>64650461Well thats a relief, at least. Finding info on these more subtle details of war is never easy. Everyone wants to talk about missile strikes and offensives, nobody wants to talk about logistics
WHAT AIR DEFENSE DOING
>>64650514the ends of the rails are closest basically inside city of Donetsk so maybe they anticipated capture of Avdiivka and now work to connect east and west rail there instead. I still find it weird that they made the track bed and even bridges for it but laid asphalt instead of rails.
>>64650456>So why cant they drone the railways being used in Ukraine already?Wow, ziggers memory holed that quickly.>On 26 October 2025, a sabotage operation targeted railway tracks near the village of Stulnevo in the Berdyansk district of Zaporizhzhia region. >During a train’s passage, the tracks were blown up, causing the locomotive, ten wagons and a cover platform to derail. Rail service on the section has been suspended and an investigation is underway.
so where's the video?
>>64650456>So why cant they drone the railways being used in Ukraine already?That's a retarded question because not only Ukraine can but already done so on multiple occasions
>>64649543Pantsir in it's natural element, filmed through the thermal view of an incoming munition
>>64649720It's worth noting that although the cost estimate is lower, that MIG is arguably a more valuable target, as the russians simply cannot replace it for any price.
>>64649951>If they cede air defence then they probably cede air superiority as well.They need radar coverage to be able to intercept ATACMS/GMLRS, drones and cruise missiles. And Russia can afford to lose ground based radars much more than it can afford to lose airborne radars.
>>64651155>that MIG is arguably a more valuable targetI take your point but will also argue against it.What you say about lostech is valid from a certain perspective but while numbers are sketchy, the BBC have at least 100 of them at the low end and up to about 250 at the high end. Toasting a single one doesn't move the needle for strategic bombing. It's only worth going to this much trouble to kill one if you can do it at scale.Removing an air defence platform does move the needle though and Total AirCuck Death has been flavour of the month, every month on the SBU cotton candy machine.Not that they won't toast a MiG-31 if they see one, it's a great target of opportunity for the reasons you identify, but it's not a primary objective, not even a secondary one really.If I were an SBU drone team leader and my team had three drones on the wire with visual on three MiG-31s and an A-50, I'd have them hit the A-50 three times.
>>64651223What about a MiG-31K, the modified ones that carry a Kinzhal? There’s only 10 of them IIRC, surely that boosts them up a little bit (obviously still not as important as an A-50)
>>64651252>What about a MiG-31K, the modified ones that carry a Kinzhal? There’s only 10 of them IIRCYeah, a Kinzhal carrier might be worth a specific tasking for but remember that there's also 55 Tu-22M3s and maybe 120 Su-34s that are or could be upgraded to carry the Kinzhal as well.That's a number that can be degraded and eventually depleted but it's going to take a while.
>>64649751It's an insurance scam.
>>64651377>there's also 55 Tu-22M3sWell, not any more. I think that's the delivery number. About 14 have been destroyed that I can find, one way or another, not all in this war.Su-34s were 153ish delivered and about 43 destroyed in this war.
>>64649720This is a pretty big hit, depends on how many 92N6s they have in Crimea, but that's the fire control radar so at best a battery is now knocked out, at worst they've got one less spare.Nebo-SVU is a long ranged VHF acquisition radar, older type though, earlier hits were claimed to be on Nebo-M radars so I wonder what's up there. Either way, that further degrades the early warning and acquisition net in Crimea.>>64651252Nah, those are post-Soviet modifications, they could presumably convert more. Given the targets hit I don't think they could've found something more valuable to hit, but the 92N6 and the two Nebos are each individually far more important targets
>>64649751Anon don't tell me you forgot about the Chornobaivka Chronosphere already.
>>64649527Made me zoom in, you fucker.
They literally just hit another two Su-27.
>>64657751>worried GWBush.jpg
>>64657751These were loaded up too, weren't they
>>64657751why or how the fuck does this keep happening?
>>64657815You can see a little zigga running away in the bottom pic.
>>64657815>>64657822In the top pic too, actually.
>>64649458Ahh that explains the /chug/ tranny raid.
>>64649720>And to top it all off, Russia is moving more air defence assets to Crimea so Crimea is basically Bakhmut for air defences these days, more metal for the err shredder.Crimea seems really easy for Ukrainians to hit. I'm guess the zigs need to protect it because it's a main supply route to their southern front. But it means that the Ukrainians can just chew up air defense there and thin it out everywhere.
>>64657816>why or how the fuck does this keep happening?Entropy.https://youtu.be/k5-QK4s4lp8?t=202More seriously, Ukies have been degrading Russia's Black Sea assets, Crimean air defences, Crimean communication facilities...for literally years now.It adds up and one day, they can't spot a Sea Baby carrier launching a vampire repeater drone and another vampire with a pair of fiber optic FPVs.So you park your Sea Baby off the coast of Crimea and fly your Vampire repeater as far as it can safely go with a little margin and run your Vampire carrier past that to nearly the signal limit, then launch your fibre optics and go fuck with things 20-40km further away than that.So they can hit basically anything that's within about 20km (base transmitter) +20KM (repeater) +40km (fibre) = 80km kill zone around the Crimean coast.And there's not that much Russia can do about it because any assets they put there to stop it are themselves targets and most of them have already been destroyed.Remember picrel? A steady diet of things like that leads to things like >>64657826.They can't even run a reliable network of coastal observers using mobiks in pillboxes because their comms centres get blown up.They'd be better off with a discord group except that it would be hacked by glowies and used against them somehow.
>>64657830>that explains the /chug/ tranny raid.There was also an ATC radar in Crimea blown up, that project ship was guarding a rig in the fucking Caspian sea and the rig got hit too.I honestly think they only hit the project boat because they'd run out of rigs to hit at the time and didn't want to waste the drone.>>64657961>I'm guess the zigs need to protect it because it's a main supply route to their southern frontI don't think it is actually, I think the bridge isn't considered safe for heavy military traffic any more.I'm pretty sure it's just:>the zigs need to protect it because banan
>>64650456Because the russians still have air defences in Crimea
btw: have a little Igla kino, I like the way it drifts.
>what blew up todaySomething else to add to the list.I like the hollywood bomb with the red armed light, there's no confusing what that device is going to do.
>>64658068
>>64658068hmmmm... spicy sausages
>>64658082It's the red LED that makes it.
>>64658068>Actual blinking red lightThey're just fucking about for the fun of it now
>>64658068>Bomb has been planted.mp3I bet it also goes beep-beep after being armed.Looney toons ass war.
>>64658126>They're just fucking about for the fun of it now>>64658173>I bet it also goes beep-beep after being armed.I mean, the people who built that bomb probably grew up playing counterstrike and possibly Duke Nukem.
>>64658126>>64658173Such things will actually attract ziggers to move closer.
Jeezas, and here I thought they would stop this from happening about two years ago.
>>64649720Do the SBU accept foreign volunteers?
Did the yukes do another operation spiderweb or are they just doing piecemeal target of opportunity attacks whenever they find fighters?
>>64651377>>64651252Funny enough there have been a series of upgrades to airfields that service Kinzhal capable aircraft and signs of major maininence being done on those aircraft. Why is it so funny? Because someone is spending alot of money and effort to get the Norks il-28s up and working. The interesting thing there is it's only the Il-28s being fixed up, not the more modern and capable H-5 variant which would require PRC support. There is a non zero chance we will see Beagles in action. It isn't entirely retarded mind you, if it's just a stand off delivery platform it doesn't really matter what carries it right?
>>64658126>extra ne555 + red led + 1k resistor = <$1>having the blinking red light on your high velocity oil sanction = priceless
>>64658483>Do the SBU accept foreign volunteers?They probably employ some foreign contractors for specific tasks but they wouldn't be employees, they'd be disposable assets.I think there's an SBU affiliated military unit that takes foreigners but those guys are off-the-books Company or ex-specops sorts of dudes.
>>64659172Forget the 555, they make 5mm LEDs that auto flash
