Belarus activists say they blew up Russian military aircraft near Minsk. Belarussian partisans destroy A-50.
Belarus activists say they blew up Russian military aircraft near Minsk. Belarussian partisans destroy A-50.
Belarus activists say they blew up Russian military aircraft near Minsk. Belarussian partisans destroy A-50.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarusian-partisans-say-russian-military-aircraft-damaged-near-minsk-2023-02-27/
They're full of shit. It was NATO Special Forces and a verifiable war crime.
Your bait got no traction. It’s formatted in a way that most of /k/ predictably falls for. Maybe just bad luck.
I bet it is a false flag to have belarus join the war
>false flag
>by your own partisans
>False flag that would destroy a priceless military capability that you can't replace
I'm going to go no on that
>"They were drones (that carried out the attack). The participants of the operation are Belarusians," Aliaksandr Azarov, leader of Belarusian anti-government organization BYPOL, was quoted as saying on Sunday on the organisation's Telegram messaging app and on the Poland-based Belsat news channel.
>BYPOL, which includes former law enforcement officers who support opposition politicians, has been branded a terrorist organization by Minsk. Belsat is a Polish broadcaster providing critical reporting on Belarus which Minsk has also branded extremist.
>Belarusian partisans
What did they destroy it with, a potato gun?
Where would they even get the ammo at this point? Everyone knows Luka has the entire country's national strategic potato stockpile in his bedroom
Maybe the partisans used high caliber rutabagas instead.
that's a big turnip
4 RU
>Andrew Zimmern
The anthropomorphic potato. Luka has been trying to capture him for years.
Wagner artillery units in Bakhmut
are suffering from potato starvation
No video = it didn't happened. Fake NAFO news.
Correct. Just like how the Moskva is sitting comfortable in the dock.
>russia only has (had) 6 of those.
>cant build more anymore
uhm, if this is true that is gonna make monke angry. Why is not belarus protecting russian expensive toys?
Partisan ops are fricking cool tbh. Guess the guys in Melitopol will need to assassinate another 100 policemen to stay on top of the partisan tier list
Imagine a full blown insurgency in Belarus
It's inevitable at this point with how many Belarusian volunteers are in Ukraine mulching vatniks
500 million dollars 🙂
It's not about the money
They literally can't build more.
>The A-50 made its first flight in 1978. The type reached initial operational capability in 1982. Some sources report that the type entered service in 1985. This aircraft was codenamed in the West as Mainstay. Production ceased in 1992 after collapse of the Soviet Union and with the end of the Cold War. A total of 40-42 A-50 series aircraft were built, including modernized and export variants. By 2011 Russian Air Force operated 20 of these aircraft. Some sources report that in 2022 Russian operated only 9 A-50 aircraft, including 3 upgraded A-50M and 6 A-50U aircraft.
Amazing isn’t it? In the span of less than 30 years, Russia’s precious and expensive AWACS fleet was cut in half then 11 years after that it was halved again, with a handful of those being fully modernized.
Given the current state of Russia’s economy, industries, and military, I’m doubtful the replacements of the A-50 series will be produced in sufficient quantities, meet the technological standards of modern warfare, or even be produced all. The Russian government has completely gutted one of the most important tools in its arsenal to counter NATO and the world, one that is desperately need for Russia’s vest nuclear weapons program that is the crutch for swindling defense spending to begin with.
Money is meaningless when it comes to archeotech. You can't put machines that no longer can be build as an equivalent of certain amount of rifles or toasters. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Based toasterfricker.
>2023
>still no over the shoulder team tactical skitarrii game
Were those even being used? I haven't seen a whole lot about the air war. I assume it's still happening, but footage of all the jets going whoosh seemed to dry up.
>Were those even being used?
Yes, at the beginning of the war. Even the Ukies had to admit when the russians had their shit together in the skies using awacs, it was hard to engage them.
True. I recalled somebody (Lazerpig?) mentioning that they were grounded and potentially having problems with the supply of jet fuel, and I think that's the only time I saw anything about them. But I also lost interest in the air war pretty quickly.
How do these stack up against the NATO flying cookies?
>How do these stack up against the NATO flying cookies?
No clue, it's hard to tell with Russian equipment and well they've been maintained. If they've been maintained. And Russia only has like 8 of these in inventory.
Russia sold India a couple and they were so bad India paid Israel to upgrade them with new radar systems and electronics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EL/W-2090
Yet they have no photos to back it up. Considering just how bloody easy it would be to take a single picture of the wreck, I doubt it happened at all.
What if this is just a false flag to justify monke invading and annexing Belarus to protect russian assets? Logic doesn't apply to vatniks so as little sense as this makes it would be funny to see
Why does every Soviet aircraft look like some shitty knock off of a Western one
Remember: the USSR developed NOTHING. Zero. Zilch. Every last thing they've ever done was cargo cult mimicry of the inventions of actually developed nations. Reverse engineering is the only kind they can do, and they're not even good at it. The brain drain preceding the Iron Curtain sealed their fate. They don't do it because they expect to fight the US. They do it to scare lesser thirdies into doing their bidding.
Most of the USSR's tech industry came from their satellite states as well.