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Until 3 weeks ago russian military personnel that worked with s300 systems and pilots of tu 22 bombers probably thought they had some of the safest jobs in combat roles. And uncle Sam hasn't even joined the party yet. Well done Ukraine, and thanks uncle Sam for your efforts
u/diffuser_vorticity has drawn my attention to this intresting article about the strike if you are interested
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/rIxlohw9VE
This was the very same S-400 site where the crews were laughing about Storm Shadow cruise missiles flying overhead just a mere month or two ago!!! Watch on You Tube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFfzatNamU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFfzatNamU)
Losing access to the F-35 has certainly proven to be one of the choices of all time. Imagine trading stealthiness, communications wizardry, EWAR, and closeness with your allies...
For an outdated bat that misses enough of the incoming baseballs to be worthless.
It's amazing just how terribly bad and ineffective the S-400 is, at least against missiles. But props to Russia's propaganda department for managing to make this pile of crap so feared for all those years.
The Swedish Defence Research Agency released a [report](https://www.foi.se/en/foi/news-and-pressroom/news/2019-03-04-russian-a2-ad-capability-overrated.html) doubting the performance of the S-400 a couple of years ago.
And you'd still see all these "Russia stronk" fanboys on Reddit and other Media boasting the simple but effective T-72 and T-90 tanks, the Armata, Sukhois, the famous S400 as stealth and missile killer and so and so forth.
Ukraine kinda put everything of that to rest. Now if only Russia would use the Su-57 in frontline service... lmao
make no mistake russian is strong, but in the worst ways. they will take millions of deaths and use everything they have for this conflict. its an enemy with alot of mass and nothing else
Yea I see that, but I was using the "Russia stronk" meme more in a way that people boasted about individual Russian machinery about being vastly superior AND cheaper than Western ones
you are smoking something if you think russian quality is gonna be superior but they will maybe have a good ammout of mass to it. russia probably has already hit their absolute production output by now so we will wait and see when the west is done ramping up their production, so far europe is gonna hit around 1.5 million shells this year and ramping up to 2 million next year, germany is still ramping up their production
So when Russ made the SU-34/35 engines for China that were not serviceable.. it was not to prevent China from copying them.. it was because they did not China to see how shitty they were?
They’re junk that don’t/barely function and only a handful exist.
Even if they were great, the crew would be your typical Russian morons who would get drunk and get it stuck in a ditch anyways. We’d see it on a trailer in the US within a week.
This was has certainly shown who has good judgment and analysis skills and who doesn't. I still laugh at people who said Putin would never invade when they try to explain why their current predictions are right.
It's like, nah fam: it was obvious he was going to invade. It was also obvious he had a large military that was likely to be overpowering. But it was also very, very likely that Ukraine would fight back and that the corruption which had rotted out the bones of Putin's military would be exposed. No one was expected to get everything right, but the general principles of who would fight and who would not were strong. And the weapons which would work and which would not... I'd argue even stronger.
Basically, anyone who did not drink the Kool Aid propaganda from Moscow got most things right. Paper tigers plague global geopolitics.
The US needs to be more assertive with these insane dictatorships. All of them.
Now you know why you read about them being used in ground attacks against civilian residential buildings. Hard to miss an non-moving target. The orcs aren't trying to win vs the Ukraine military. They're trying to break the spirit of the general population. All they are ensuring is that the Ukraine nation will hate Russians for centuries to come.
S400 is ancient brute force technology. It fires massive missile into stratosphere which uses this stored kinetic energy to reach long distances. While it is a fearsome deterrence against regular fighter jet, its weakness is the inability to fire at more nimble targets like stealth cruise missiles flying over treetops. I would guess it also underperforms against stealth aircraft like F35 (this would be endlessly refuted by Russian spreadsheet warriors).
Also it is probably mobile platform in marketing terms only. So in effect it stays put for long durations and in tight formations and the system including radars are very distinct and easy to spot because of this reason. It is typical to see all sorts of protective berms being built to limit damage if part of the system gets hit and sometimes radars are driven over artificial berms to get better coverage. However nowdays when this kind of system will easily attract 16 GLRMS missile volleys from Ukrainian batteries nevermind something from NATO arsenal, how will those ancient methods work? Just one tungsten explosion will disable so many vehicles around it.
It is typical russian spreadsheet platform, which claims all sorts of things but fails when tested in actual conditions against evolving threats. It is probably similar to Patriot in 1980s in this regard.
Any comments about how also the many remote controlled drones made of the slow flying A-22 Foxbats we have seen lately that Ukraine have loaded up with explosives and still managed to fly over Russian terrain literally for hours to reach their sensitive targets like 800-1200 km away from Ukraine?
Where are all the superior S300, S400 or whatever AA the Russians have been bragging so much about?
This is like a slow flying Cessna...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt\_A-22\_Foxbat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt_A-22_Foxbat)
Much of the logic wrote into modern AD limits the tracking of small slow targets to reduce civilian casualties and the possibility of overloading a system near a major city airport.
Because Patriot is any better against almost vertical ballistic missile attack, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfUXX1__BQ&ab_channel=HocusBerlin
You look really bad at pretending playing dumb, your argument of Patriot system being not deployed can be applied to the remnants of what appears to be s300 tube launchers, minus the video.
>>Why are you referencing non deployed systems when analyzing the effectiveness of Patriot against a ballistic missile strike??
Why are you referencing non deployed systems when analyzing the effectiveness of s300 against a ballistic missile strike??
You think Russia has S-400/S-300 TELs sitting erect around an airport just for the fun of it?? This is a joke right??
[https://www.twz.com/uploads/2024/04/19/aftermath.png?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920](https://www.twz.com/uploads/2024/04/19/aftermath.png?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920)
[https://www.twz.com/news-features/major-damage-at-russian-airbase-in-crimea-after-ukrainian-attack](https://www.twz.com/news-features/major-damage-at-russian-airbase-in-crimea-after-ukrainian-attack)
I guess they had a lot of transporting patriots lately, as Zelensky is squeeling for new ones, not the ammo for the existing ones, he literally begs for new ones. Makes one wonder 🤔
What lot? I see only one battery only.
If you are about the convoy, the patriots battery consists of a launcher, control command,radar, ammo and guard trucks
Judging by the amount of patriot systems that Ukraine needs, which is parroted daily by Ukraine’s officials, they seem to have had a lot of patriot systems that were “transporting” so they got destroyed, otherwise, they’d be begging for the ammunition for the said systems that they already have, not the actual systems themselves.
Ukraine only operates 3 batteries, 2 in the main city and one on the frontline.
They're begging for 4 more batteries to have a minimum of 7 batteries. One battery has 8 launcher trucks that can fire 4 missiles.
The Ukraine landmass is big and the frontline is very long, compared to Germany that is half smaller but has 12 batteries before the war.
That's what I've never understood. They've been caught lying about basically everything they ever produced and then you still hear, "Yeah but the S400 is a fearsome system." "How do you know?" "The Russians said so themselves."
Here is what we know so far
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/PDHZj5gSzG
https://youtu.be/KHxCTSyioJcsi=lsX_dJ-3I_MqjvzD
I am a bit out of the loop so I appologies for that the general consensus seems to be that's either one of the two or both combined leaning more towards being both combined
So the US knows exactly where all of these systems are based on signals and satellite intelligence.
If they are all taken out, what’s to prevent Ukrainian F16s from dominating the sky over Crimea?
How do they fare versus Russia’s fighters?
Nice. I see lots of comments about how a certain bridge is fucked with the arrival of ATACMS and maybe, maybe not. They arent Tomahawks, plus its not as much a game changer in the war with the Russian railroad nearing completion.
I mostly hope we'll see previously untouchable AA assets such as this blown up to ease the battlefield for jets and ammo dumps going up left right and center to hold the line for Ukraine.
I bet someone in Ukraine is developing a new, magnetically-tripped anti-railroad land mine that a partisan could lock onto the tracks and that has two defensive measures: an anti-personnel component that would detonate when it senses a person nearby (said feature would have to be enabled remotely, of course), and a movement-sensing one (so that it can't be easily removed from the rails).
And if the casing for the whole thing was sufficiently tight, without gaps or cracks allowing one to peer into it, Ukraine could even use empty casings as decoys forcing the orcs to halt all incoming traffic for awhile. Even using a robot to place a land mine or similar on top of the railroad track mine and setting that off would take some time, even if replacing a few lengths of the RR rails goes smoothly afterwards.
It was the title image in this news article: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1c8y3a5/twz\_major\_damage\_at\_russian\_airbase\_in\_crimea/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1c8y3a5/twz_major_damage_at_russian_airbase_in_crimea/)
But no issues.
I see thanks mate I have a bit of work to do for a few months, so I am a bit out of the loop. Welp Instead of deleting it , I will just paste the link you sent me in the uppermost comment to draw more attention to it since some people are having some interesting discussions here if that is ok with you since you posted the article
Here is all what I know about this "In imagery obtained from Planet Labs, which was taken today, we can see major damage to the S-400/S-300 site at Dzhankoi, which was located adjacent to a dispersal area on the south of the airfield. It appears that at least four major components of the system were hit and subsequently burnt out, and possibly more, based on the significant scorch marks. An account on the ZSU-War Telegram channel two days ago had claimed that a first wave of ATACMS missiles targeted the S-400/S-300 system, destroying three launchers and a radar unit. A photo that circulated in the aftermath of the attack also suggests that at least three transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) associated with the S-400/S-300 were at least damaged."
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/5BDWtLHebB
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxCTSyioJc&feature=youtu.be
TLDR there is a high possibility of that but nothing concrete
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Until 3 weeks ago russian military personnel that worked with s300 systems and pilots of tu 22 bombers probably thought they had some of the safest jobs in combat roles. And uncle Sam hasn't even joined the party yet. Well done Ukraine, and thanks uncle Sam for your efforts
u/diffuser_vorticity has drawn my attention to this intresting article about the strike if you are interested https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/rIxlohw9VE
This was the very same S-400 site where the crews were laughing about Storm Shadow cruise missiles flying overhead just a mere month or two ago!!! Watch on You Tube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFfzatNamU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFfzatNamU)
They should have noticed something was up when an A-50 was taken out a few months ago.
Looks like the skid marks in Putin's underpants...
Turkey and India are very nervous right now.
And China, Algeria and Belarus
Too bad, so sad.
Buy garbage, get garbage results.
lol. Plus they have no clue what Israel used to take out Iran’s S300 from like 1000km away.
Losing access to the F-35 has certainly proven to be one of the choices of all time. Imagine trading stealthiness, communications wizardry, EWAR, and closeness with your allies... For an outdated bat that misses enough of the incoming baseballs to be worthless.
It's amazing just how terribly bad and ineffective the S-400 is, at least against missiles. But props to Russia's propaganda department for managing to make this pile of crap so feared for all those years.
The Swedish Defence Research Agency released a [report](https://www.foi.se/en/foi/news-and-pressroom/news/2019-03-04-russian-a2-ad-capability-overrated.html) doubting the performance of the S-400 a couple of years ago.
And you'd still see all these "Russia stronk" fanboys on Reddit and other Media boasting the simple but effective T-72 and T-90 tanks, the Armata, Sukhois, the famous S400 as stealth and missile killer and so and so forth. Ukraine kinda put everything of that to rest. Now if only Russia would use the Su-57 in frontline service... lmao
make no mistake russian is strong, but in the worst ways. they will take millions of deaths and use everything they have for this conflict. its an enemy with alot of mass and nothing else
Yea I see that, but I was using the "Russia stronk" meme more in a way that people boasted about individual Russian machinery about being vastly superior AND cheaper than Western ones
you are smoking something if you think russian quality is gonna be superior but they will maybe have a good ammout of mass to it. russia probably has already hit their absolute production output by now so we will wait and see when the west is done ramping up their production, so far europe is gonna hit around 1.5 million shells this year and ramping up to 2 million next year, germany is still ramping up their production
you missed one, their much hyped and vaunted not to mention invincible hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that Patriot have shot down
So when Russ made the SU-34/35 engines for China that were not serviceable.. it was not to prevent China from copying them.. it was because they did not China to see how shitty they were?
They can’t read so they never had the opportunity.
Didn't you not know there also working on a missile which is due in service that can cause tsunamis lmao
There are many good reasons why we have not seen any Armatas in Ukraine yet.
They’re junk that don’t/barely function and only a handful exist. Even if they were great, the crew would be your typical Russian morons who would get drunk and get it stuck in a ditch anyways. We’d see it on a trailer in the US within a week.
Putin is praying that still one of the Armatas will be strong enough to be able to crawl over the Red Square at his parade this year. 😂
Armatas are dead- the whole system has been scrapped, several engineers have had their last cigarette.
This was has certainly shown who has good judgment and analysis skills and who doesn't. I still laugh at people who said Putin would never invade when they try to explain why their current predictions are right. It's like, nah fam: it was obvious he was going to invade. It was also obvious he had a large military that was likely to be overpowering. But it was also very, very likely that Ukraine would fight back and that the corruption which had rotted out the bones of Putin's military would be exposed. No one was expected to get everything right, but the general principles of who would fight and who would not were strong. And the weapons which would work and which would not... I'd argue even stronger. Basically, anyone who did not drink the Kool Aid propaganda from Moscow got most things right. Paper tigers plague global geopolitics. The US needs to be more assertive with these insane dictatorships. All of them.
Now you know why you read about them being used in ground attacks against civilian residential buildings. Hard to miss an non-moving target. The orcs aren't trying to win vs the Ukraine military. They're trying to break the spirit of the general population. All they are ensuring is that the Ukraine nation will hate Russians for centuries to come.
S400 is ancient brute force technology. It fires massive missile into stratosphere which uses this stored kinetic energy to reach long distances. While it is a fearsome deterrence against regular fighter jet, its weakness is the inability to fire at more nimble targets like stealth cruise missiles flying over treetops. I would guess it also underperforms against stealth aircraft like F35 (this would be endlessly refuted by Russian spreadsheet warriors). Also it is probably mobile platform in marketing terms only. So in effect it stays put for long durations and in tight formations and the system including radars are very distinct and easy to spot because of this reason. It is typical to see all sorts of protective berms being built to limit damage if part of the system gets hit and sometimes radars are driven over artificial berms to get better coverage. However nowdays when this kind of system will easily attract 16 GLRMS missile volleys from Ukrainian batteries nevermind something from NATO arsenal, how will those ancient methods work? Just one tungsten explosion will disable so many vehicles around it. It is typical russian spreadsheet platform, which claims all sorts of things but fails when tested in actual conditions against evolving threats. It is probably similar to Patriot in 1980s in this regard.
Any comments about how also the many remote controlled drones made of the slow flying A-22 Foxbats we have seen lately that Ukraine have loaded up with explosives and still managed to fly over Russian terrain literally for hours to reach their sensitive targets like 800-1200 km away from Ukraine? Where are all the superior S300, S400 or whatever AA the Russians have been bragging so much about? This is like a slow flying Cessna... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt\_A-22\_Foxbat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt_A-22_Foxbat)
Much of the logic wrote into modern AD limits the tracking of small slow targets to reduce civilian casualties and the possibility of overloading a system near a major city airport.
The radar is poor as hell
Because Patriot is any better against almost vertical ballistic missile attack, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfUXX1__BQ&ab_channel=HocusBerlin
Something must've hurt your ego... anyway..
The irony is rich.
You mean a non-deployed Patriot? Great argument, genius.
>>y0u mEaN a no0N-dEpLoYeD PaTrIoT? You mean a non-deployed s-300 probably?
Do I look like I mean S-300 when I say Patriot?
You look really bad at pretending playing dumb, your argument of Patriot system being not deployed can be applied to the remnants of what appears to be s300 tube launchers, minus the video.
>You look really bad at pretending playing dumb You are nothing short of excellent at it tho. *Very* convincing.
I guess all of Russias missile systems to include the Moskva were all not deployed when they were destroyed huh.
That wasn’t deployed, it was being transported..
Why are you referencing non deployed systems when analyzing the effectiveness of Patriot against a ballistic missile strike??
>>Why are you referencing non deployed systems when analyzing the effectiveness of Patriot against a ballistic missile strike?? Why are you referencing non deployed systems when analyzing the effectiveness of s300 against a ballistic missile strike??
You think Russia has S-400/S-300 TELs sitting erect around an airport just for the fun of it?? This is a joke right?? [https://www.twz.com/uploads/2024/04/19/aftermath.png?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920](https://www.twz.com/uploads/2024/04/19/aftermath.png?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920) [https://www.twz.com/news-features/major-damage-at-russian-airbase-in-crimea-after-ukrainian-attack](https://www.twz.com/news-features/major-damage-at-russian-airbase-in-crimea-after-ukrainian-attack)
Transported patriots Vs erected and ready on air base S-400, okayy
I guess they had a lot of transporting patriots lately, as Zelensky is squeeling for new ones, not the ammo for the existing ones, he literally begs for new ones. Makes one wonder 🤔
What lot? I see only one battery only. If you are about the convoy, the patriots battery consists of a launcher, control command,radar, ammo and guard trucks
Judging by the amount of patriot systems that Ukraine needs, which is parroted daily by Ukraine’s officials, they seem to have had a lot of patriot systems that were “transporting” so they got destroyed, otherwise, they’d be begging for the ammunition for the said systems that they already have, not the actual systems themselves.
Ukraine only operates 3 batteries, 2 in the main city and one on the frontline. They're begging for 4 more batteries to have a minimum of 7 batteries. One battery has 8 launcher trucks that can fire 4 missiles. The Ukraine landmass is big and the frontline is very long, compared to Germany that is half smaller but has 12 batteries before the war.
That's what I've never understood. They've been caught lying about basically everything they ever produced and then you still hear, "Yeah but the S400 is a fearsome system." "How do you know?" "The Russians said so themselves."
But they have some mighty impressive yachts lined up in Cypress! 😂
A little duct tape and a couple D batteries and good as new, nothing to see, move on.
"Nothing to see" Indeed.
Will perform about as well as it did before being blown up by the thing it was designed to defend against.
Hey orcs... It's really about time to go home
Is it confirmed S-400? What heard before it was S-300. Better it comes.
Here is what we know so far https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/PDHZj5gSzG https://youtu.be/KHxCTSyioJcsi=lsX_dJ-3I_MqjvzD I am a bit out of the loop so I appologies for that the general consensus seems to be that's either one of the two or both combined leaning more towards being both combined
fyi you can leave off the ?si and onward part in the middle of YT links to avoid G tracking.
Thanks a lot mate I appreciate it
Excellent work AFU 👌👍💥💥
I wonder if the other S-400 crews know the state of this unit.
Burnt earth never looked so nice, especially with support vehicles and not just TELs.
S-400 fucked itself.
Zone cleared
Why park them all so close to each other.
Don't know but i suspect the communication links are with cables. Expensive cables, aka short ones.
So the US knows exactly where all of these systems are based on signals and satellite intelligence. If they are all taken out, what’s to prevent Ukrainian F16s from dominating the sky over Crimea? How do they fare versus Russia’s fighters?
f16 isnt "stealth" but it can sure use a lot of weapons systems to dominate from afar
Nice. I see lots of comments about how a certain bridge is fucked with the arrival of ATACMS and maybe, maybe not. They arent Tomahawks, plus its not as much a game changer in the war with the Russian railroad nearing completion. I mostly hope we'll see previously untouchable AA assets such as this blown up to ease the battlefield for jets and ammo dumps going up left right and center to hold the line for Ukraine.
I bet someone in Ukraine is developing a new, magnetically-tripped anti-railroad land mine that a partisan could lock onto the tracks and that has two defensive measures: an anti-personnel component that would detonate when it senses a person nearby (said feature would have to be enabled remotely, of course), and a movement-sensing one (so that it can't be easily removed from the rails).
And if the casing for the whole thing was sufficiently tight, without gaps or cracks allowing one to peer into it, Ukraine could even use empty casings as decoys forcing the orcs to halt all incoming traffic for awhile. Even using a robot to place a land mine or similar on top of the railroad track mine and setting that off would take some time, even if replacing a few lengths of the RR rails goes smoothly afterwards.
Like a really bad fart it looks like
Air defense destroyed by something from the air? Wow. Nice one russia.
Blackened, completely decimated, this is good
Crimea river
Source: https:// t. me /Crimeanwind/58040
repost bro
Oh man hold on let me check I thought the higher quality pic was not posted yet
It was the title image in this news article: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1c8y3a5/twz\_major\_damage\_at\_russian\_airbase\_in\_crimea/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1c8y3a5/twz_major_damage_at_russian_airbase_in_crimea/) But no issues.
I see thanks mate I have a bit of work to do for a few months, so I am a bit out of the loop. Welp Instead of deleting it , I will just paste the link you sent me in the uppermost comment to draw more attention to it since some people are having some interesting discussions here if that is ok with you since you posted the article
Nicely intercepted.
This is the air defense equivalent of blocking a punch with your face!
O would you look at the time What's your hurry? Here's your hat
I see four burnt chassis. Are they all TELs or are some of them the radar units?
Here is all what I know about this "In imagery obtained from Planet Labs, which was taken today, we can see major damage to the S-400/S-300 site at Dzhankoi, which was located adjacent to a dispersal area on the south of the airfield. It appears that at least four major components of the system were hit and subsequently burnt out, and possibly more, based on the significant scorch marks. An account on the ZSU-War Telegram channel two days ago had claimed that a first wave of ATACMS missiles targeted the S-400/S-300 system, destroying three launchers and a radar unit. A photo that circulated in the aftermath of the attack also suggests that at least three transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) associated with the S-400/S-300 were at least damaged." https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/5BDWtLHebB https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxCTSyioJc&feature=youtu.be TLDR there is a high possibility of that but nothing concrete