Ukraine - Russia Conflict

Footage of the use of the X-39 LMUR guided missile in Ukraine by a Russian Ka-52 helicopter. The helicopter attacks with an X-39 missile a Ukrainian drone control crew located in one of the buildings in the town of Kirovsk.

 
One of the trucks involved in the attack was spotted in Ukraine... :ROFLMAO:

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Update from Tom Cooper

The total looks like this:
  • 8 Tu-95MS (all 8 FMC, at least 6 loaded with Kh-101; this was between 70% and 100% of the ‘most often flown’ part of the Russian Tu-95MS-fleet, and thus the ‘best part’, ‘biggest success’ of this operation);
  • 7 (perhaps 10) Tu-22M-3 (‘nice’, but not as important as knocking out Tu-95MS’);
  • 2 A-50s (‘wasted effort’; both were non-operational for years and useless even as sources of spares)
  • 1 An-12 (‘just a transport’)
Together: 8 Tu-95MS, 7-10 Tu-22M-3, 2 A-50s, 1 An-12.

In a war of attrition - which is what this conflict meanwhile is - crucial is to knock out items the enemy cannot replace, or has major problems with replacing. The Russians can’t replace any of these aircraft: they are not in production for 25 years (or longer). In the case of A-50s, they cannot even overhaul and repair, while in the case of Tu-95MS this costs them lots of time and lots of money. The Russian aviation industry was struggling with the lack of skilled workforce already before the invasion on Ukraine: ever since, it is experiencing constantly increasing problems with importing Western high-tech necessary for their avionics and weapons (so much so: the A-100 - the project for an upgrade of A-50s - was cancelled for the lack of the same, while the Su-57 is ‘heading nowhere’).

From that point of view, the strikes on Tu-22M-3s were ‘nice’ (about 30% of bombers known as ‘operated as of 2022-2023’ were knocked out, but they’ve been largely inactive for over a year), and those on the two A-50s were ‘entirely pointless’ (both were non-operational ‘for decades’).

However, the strikes on Tu-95MS have mauled the Russian strategic bomber fleet. They not only destroyed about 50% of ‘regularly operational’- but also between 70% and 100% of ‘fully mission capable’ aircraft. They also destroyed approximately ‘monthly production worth’ in Kh-101 missiles. Means: this kind of threat for Ukraine is out of commission for at least a month, probably longer. The rest now depends on how much of ‘his’ money is Pudding ready to invest into repairs of the fleet…and then how long is it going to take to manufacture new Kh-101s.

Except for the way in which the UAVs were smuggled into Russia to then launch near-simultaneous attacks at air bases so far away from each other (is a lesson certain to be learned by numerous countries, but non-state actors, too), precisely this point is what, yes, made this attack both ‘very important’ and ‘highly effective’.
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Russia captured the first Ukrainian M60 AVLB bridgelayer. The video shows footage of the evacuation of a Ukrainian M1A1SA Abrams tank abandoned near the village of Zaoleshenka and an abandoned M60 AVLB bridgelayer near the village of Gogolevka in the Kursk region. The M60 AVLB engineering vehicle was developed on the basis of the M60 Patton tank in the United States in 1963, it was later modernized, and it is still used by the troops of some countries. In the United States, the M60 AVLB was decommissioned in 2003. Ukraine received 8 M60 AVLB units. This is the first example of the M60 AVLB engineering vehicle in the Russian army.

 
During the night attack on June 6, Russian missiles and drones on Kyiv, footage was published of the alleged destruction of the Ukrainian Patriot air defense system by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile. In the video, the Patriot air defense system fires four missiles, after which an Iskander-M missile hits the launch site.

 
Residents of the city of Lutsk, Volyn region of Ukraine, began publishing footage of Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles striking the Ukrainian Motor repair plant and other facilities. The plant repairs engines for MiG-29, Su-27 and Su-24 aircraft. The missiles were presumably launched by Tu-95 and Tu-160 aircraft. The Kh-101 missile has a range of up to 5,500 km and a 400 kg warhead. Some versions of Kh-101 missiles have an 800 kg warhead.

 
Footage of an attack by a Russian Su-34 fighter bomber in Donbas, presumably with an ODAB-1500 vacuum bomb with a UMPK module. The strike was carried out on the location of the 81st airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian army in Seversk in Donbas. The ODAB-1500 aerial bomb is activated sequentially during combat use: first, the active substance is sprayed, then oxidizes in the air with ignition and subsequent detonation.

 
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