ALLIED RESOLVE 2022 + the war that followed

[hammarö]

Su-25 RF-91961 downed last days after Ukrainan support on way to base in Belgorod area.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-pilo ... 11073.html

After look in the data base the Su-25 downed should be 07 red formerly from Chernigovka air base.

Su-25SM 07 red RF-91961 2022 Chernigovka VKS cam.

Russian pilot dead after wounds.

[hammarö]

A-50 red 43 RF-90608 badly damaged at Minsk-Machulishchi air base today.

Source Denys Davydov with picture 7:33:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oumuCRjnlW8

All of the A-50 were produced in Tashkent.

Modernized during late years at Taganrog south, just north of the Ukrainan border.

The A-50 is modernized with slow modernizing.

At least eight A-50U are modernized.
41-05 A-50U 33 red RF-50602. 2013 2021 Ivanovo VKS dark grey 1984 2 s
58-05 A-50U 37 red RF-93966. 2010 2021 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1988 3 s
63-05 A-50U 41 red RF-94268. 2016 2021 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1988 4 s
64-06 A-50U 42 red RF-50610. 2019 2021 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1988 s
60-05 A-50U 43 red RF-50608. 1987 2021 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1987
71-05 A-50U 45 red RF-93952. 2018 2021 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1990 5 s
40-05 A-50U 47 red RF-92957. 2011 2018 Ivanovo VKS grey white 1984 1 s
73-05 A-50U 50 red RF-50601. 2015 2023 Perm VKS grey white 1990

Of them are three constant in the air around Ukraine.

One over Byelorussia.
One in Donbass area.
One in Crimea area.

With A-50U are MiG-31 flying as QRA units Quick Reaction Units. Some places a pair of Su-30SM.

Were is MiG-31 QRA units over whole Russia, example (some with A-50):
Petrozavodsk,
Kaliningrad,
Voronezh-Baltimor,
Minsk,
Simferopol (Crimea),
Perm,
Kansk,
Komsomolsk-Dzemgi,
Novosibirisk-Tolmachevo,
Vladivostok-Uglovoye,
Petropavlovsk-Yelizovo,
And more.

[hammarö]

A-50U red 43 RF-90608 is flying again at Minsk-Machulishchi air base today.
Not badly damaged as reported from several sources.

ttps://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1631229112143560704

[Stratofreighter]

A-50U red 43 RF-90608 is flying again at Minsk-Machulishchi air base today.
Not badly damaged as reported from several sources.

ttps://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1631229112143560704

...yep, correct...
https://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1631271881452994561

Immediately after the takeoff of the A-50 aircraft, two videos of it shot from different angles were sent to the Belarusian Hajun. Pro-Russian and pro-Lukashenka propagandists published them later. What does this work of propagandists mean

Also:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/308851

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 crashed (reportedly shot down) somewhere in Ukraine.
The pilot ejected and was evacuated by a Mi-8 on CSAR duty.
Video of the crash site was first published on 1 March 2023.

[Ajaxfever]

A-50U red 43 RF-90608 is flying again at Minsk-Machulishchi air base today.
Not badly damaged as reported from several sources.

ttps://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1631229112143560704

See also
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/1/7391597/

[michel N]

A video has emerged where an unarmed drone lands on the radar disc of the A-50, and flies off again. Looks like the airbase defence is not really efficient

https://theaviationist.com/2023/03/02/v ... s-emerges/

[hammarö]

A-50U red 43 RF-90608 flew back to Russia for repair.
Not badly damaged as reported from several sources.

[hammarö]

Major Alexander Yurievich Bondarec (Бондарев Александр Юрьевич) kia 2023.03.03. Yenakileve, Ukraine probably pilot of a Su-34

https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine/sta ... 58/photo/1

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[michel N]

According to the “Politico” website the US is considering to make it possible for Ukraine Migs or Sukhois to carry the AIM-120 AMRAAM. That would be another interesting story, after the HARM missiles being fired from Migs/Sukhois

[hammarö]

According actions against the Flanker at Centralnaya-Uglovaya have Russia close to 90 active tactical combat aircraft east of Ural.

23 of them are Flankers.

The rest of tactical aircraft (and Flankers) are west of Ural.

[Antonov22]

RuAF Su-27 collided with USAF MQ-9 Reaper, stricking it's propeller and forcing the drone to be ditched in international waters:

https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status ... qsj7MtAAAA
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64957792

[Stratofreighter]

On 15 March 2023, a Russian Air Force aircraft (likely a Su-25)
was shot down by Ukrainian soldiers from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade near Bakhmut
and crashed in Zaitseve, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast.

The pilot, reportedly a Wagner PMC contractor, ejected safely.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/309277

[Canberra TT.18]

1
Polish AF Mig-29 offer is being mentioned again
'for possible swift use in UKR AF service.'

side note: (one might think fast jet strike aircraft or armed OH-58 Warrior Kiowas would be more of use) (but no discussion here please.)

2
Last hours yet again an 'all out' air attack ('missiles of many types') was carried out all over in the state of Ukraine.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2467715-polen-le ... n-oekraine
NOS mentioning (4) polish MiG-29s to Ukraine.

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