VKS Russian Aerospace Forces: News #2

How Russian Air Force plan to neutralize enemy AD systems

MOSCOW, November 29. / TASS /. The number of new technology in the Aerospace Forces (VKS) is planned to increase to 89% in 2022. Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin, deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, said this in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper .

"Within the framework of the State Defense Order in 2022, it is planned to purchase more than 200 units of the main types of weapons, military and special equipment of the Aerospace Forces, which will make it possible to achieve a modernity level of 89%," he said.

According to Yudin, in 2021, overhaul and modernization of more than 200 samples of weapons, military and special equipment of the Aerospace Forces will be completed.

"Currently, there is an active phase of the supply of weapons to the troops, and taking into account the fulfillment by industrial organizations of their obligations by the end of 2021, the share of modern weapons and military equipment will be 87%, and serviceability will reach 83%," the deputy chief commander said.

https://tass-ru.translate.goog/armiya-i-opk/13050241?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui

Russian Aerospace Forces planes delivered humanitarian aid to Kabul

It seems VKS has indeed serious growth plans and two squadron regiments are going to go back to three squadrons:

I have had a sense that this would be in the works with perhaps more forward airfield deployments then presently.

On December 8, 2021, Russian airspace control devices over the neutral waters of the Black Sea detected air targets approaching the State Border of the Russian Federation.

To identify air targets and prevent violations of the State Border of the Russian Federation, Su-27 fighters from the air defense forces of the Southern Military District were taken into the air.

The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial targets as two tactical fighters Mirage-2000 and Rafale, as well as the French Aerospace Forces C-135 tanker and escorted them over the Black Sea.

Evacuation of citizens from Afghanistan by aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces

Mark 100 differences

Some air force/air defence control room (was shown in the video about drones)

This command system is called Bastion and uses data of all radar systems to monitor the situation around the border.

Hole wrote:Some air force/air defence control room (was shown in the video about drones)

Can't help but notice the series of orbit patterns around the Turkish border with Syria near Idlib. Russian/Turkish Drones, maybe?

Cheetah wrote:

Hole wrote:Some air force/air defence control room (was shown in the video about drones)

Can't help but notice the series of orbit patterns around the Turkish border with Syria near Idlib. Russian/Turkish Drones, maybe?

Not sure if that is the same material, but the one I saw, a chief of BPLA branch on the WKS explained, that it is some sort of three sides accepted route the Turks are flying.
Agreed by the Syrians and Russians, they are making surveillance there.

11.01.2022 Lenta.ru

Arsenals for hypersonic missiles will be prepared in Russia

At military airfields in Russian regions, the preparation of infrastructure for the Kinzhal hypersonic complexes is being completed. Special facilities are designed for the maintenance and testing of hypersonic missiles. This was reported by the Izvestia newspaper.
Sources of the publication in the Russian Ministry of Defense noted that the infrastructure for servicing hypersonic missiles is being created in the units of the Aerospace Forces (VKS), which will use the Kinzhal. In several regions of Russia, they are working on equipping arsenals for storing missiles, as well as sites for repairing, testing and servicing missiles.

Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky noted that the Aerospace Forces units will provide storage, preparation for combat use and maintenance of missiles. He stressed that the Aerospace Forces units are also ready to deploy MiG-31K aircraft carried by the Kinzhal. Earlier, the Russian Northern Fleet reported that the Zircon hypersonic missile was successfully launched from a surface ship during tests almost ten times.

In September, the head of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said that there were no means in the world that could withstand the Kinzhal missiles. He noted that hypersonic missiles are fast and accurate.

Hole wrote:Some air force/air defence control room (was shown in the video about drones)

Why is some text in Cyrillic and for example, on the right, in English (Total, Foe, Friend, Unknown).

Regards

My guess is that the same info is send to the syrian side.

Relocation of Su-35S VVO aircraft to the territory of the Republic of Belarus as part of joint exercises

Russian radars track 56 foreign spy planes and drones near state borders over week

https://tass.com/defense/1392055

Interesting news. Apparently head designer of Antonov was arrested in Ukraine due to alleged support for SMO
https://t.me/istorijaoruzijaZ/4762
The security service of Ukraine has detained the lead designer of the Antonov airline for supporting the special operation of the Russian Federation, the Kyiv prosecutor's office has reported.

PapaDragon wrote:
Verbal support or actual support?

I looked around and they didn't say. But when everything is over they should bring him over to Russia. There might be more like him.

PapaDragon wrote:

caveat emptor wrote:Interesting news. Apparently head designer of Antonov was arrested in Ukraine due to alleged support for SMO
https://t.me/istorijaoruzijaZ/4762
The security service of Ukraine has detained the lead designer of the Antonov airline for supporting the special operation of the Russian Federation, the Kyiv prosecutor's office has reported...

Verbal support or actual support?

Most likely there a was a russian map in the last used emoticones in its sms app...

Those guys are crazy. They arrest random dudes and try to exchange them for ukrainian POW in Russia.