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Airbornewolf wrote:O forces are advancing steadily with battles, SU-25's overhead in support
Nice video , But to correct the mistakes of people that don't understand what those su-25's really
doing..
--> This is NOT close air support .. This is not combat video of Su-25..
What Russian army is doing with their su-25's ,as far videos they released, is using their
su-25's for scouting, For spying on Ukraine territory , And to avoid air defenses , they fly
low and fly very fast ,as fast they can.. doing heavy turns and dropping a lot of decoys ,just in case they attacked with manpads.
So what's the problem with this tactics?
The problem is that this is useless for precision destruction of enemy important targets..
in order for Su-25 to destroy for real anything , they can't fly that fast , they need to fly
high altitude and then dive their nose on their target while bombing.
This is an Su-25 in nagorno karabah by azerbaijan, providing close air support.. Notice how the plane needs visual contact with what they are bombing , and don't pass flying fast of their targets. This is how Su-25's can be used efficiently. But i suspect Russia limitated number of precision missiles and lack of drones ,is the reason they have to resort so much using outdated
unguided rockets , from far distances ,and without even having visual contant with the target to hit.
The problem however is That Russia airforce don't have air superiority in Ukraine , the airspace
over Ukraine is contested , and is very unsafe to fly , for the failure of Russian airforce to destroy Ukraine air defenses after 100 days of war. So because the Russian airforce don't have enough drones to spy on ukraine airspace on a consitent way ,24 hours a day , then the russian airforce is forced to use Su-25's , as replacement of spy drones.. still their job is inferior ,because they can't stay illuminating the target , as it shold be for russian artillery or iskanders or cruise missiles to finish it.
so as cool as the video look, is very innefficient tactics and slow ,how russia is searching and destroying important targets in Ukraine. A much better tactic would have been the Su-25 ,instead of dropping useless unguided rockets ,that had no chance to hit with precision anything important ,unless is lucky hit , flying that fast and so low and in indirect bombing , and from far distances.
Much more efficient would have been Su-25 to be removed all their useless Rockets , and bombs ,if they had no plans to use the plane correctly for close air bombing with visual line of sight of target.
then they could use those planes ,as drones carriers.. And drop a dozen of cheap drones ,whenever they find an important target , like artillery positions or air defenses.. and release a dozen of cheap and small drones and leave. and then a second pilot flying near the place operate the drones ,to illuminate the targets,, for Russian artillery to destroy it . if this is done very quick and fast , the drone operator + artillery operators , can blow a dozen of important targets.. before those drones shutdown by air defenses or man pads. in wars , timing and speed is everything.. and this is how Russian airforce could speed up the destruction of Ukraine air defenses and artillery. Using Su-25's are drones carriers.. also glide bombs with tv cameras guidance could be fired , towards the position those low flying su25s find important targets to destroy and provide coordinates of it ,to their base.
another thing could be done is Arm Those Su-25 with smart missiles ,with artificial intelligence .
so sad russian airforce don't have british or israel smart missiles fire and forget tech. that the missile themselves hunt for armor or artillery targets to destroy in the zone they are requested to look.
This is why The russian operation is soooo slow,.. Russian army
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Lost 50%: The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for the first time announced the figures of losses of the Armed Forces in equipment during the war.
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air and ground weapons in the areas of Kremenchug and Lisichansk have destroyed technological facilities for oil refining and fuel storage intended to supply Ukrainian military equipment in Donbass.
In total, 206 Ukrainian airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,241 unmanned aerial vehicles, 343 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,613 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 547 multiple launch rocket systems, 2,032 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,687 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.