20.10.2022, 08:16
Über den strategischen Luftkrieg Russlands:
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/...8692558849
Und gerade deshalb beispielsweise Kampfpanzer mit Mittelkaliber MK !
BLICK VON OSTEN:
Zur Abwechslung mal das offizielle russische Staatsfernsehen:
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/statu...fmm_crAAAA
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/...8692558849
Zitat:Ukraine has one of the densest IADS in the world outside of Moscow Oblast. Nobody has the necessary density of AAA defenses for a $20,000 loitering munition with a 40kg warhead against all the vulnerable fixed targets they can engage within a 1,200km range. There are so many things like step down transformers, grid interconnects and long haul electric lines from major power plants a little GPS guided drone can take out that are completely unguarded. The loss of 30% of Ukraine's grid power generation reflects this fact.
Some on Twitter are calling Russia attacking the Ukrainian power grid as a part of its SEAD campaign "terrorism." WW2 called it strategic bombing. WW2 was correct about that.
The Russians have purchased over 2,000 Shahed-136 at $20,000 each. Cheap, small, low, slow and GPS accurate is the way to beat modern IADS because their missiles are to darn expensive & they lack enough guns. Consider this:
37 of 43 Shahed-136 drones shot down is 86%. The 43 Shaheds cost Russia $860,000 to fire. They ran Ukraine out at least five times and maybe as many as 100 times that $860,000 cost figure in terms of defending air to air and surface to air missiles to get those 37 kills just on the missiles alone.
A new Stinger MANPADS class missile from Raytheon using stockpiled out of date components is ~$120000. We don't have cost numbers for Ukrainian missiles for its fighters or its Igla, Osa, Buk, & S-300 SAM's. But we do have these cost numbers. The per missile cost information comes from the previous & the WasPost link below. AIM-9X - $472,000 AIM-120 - $1.095 million Patriot PAC3 - ~$3 million. Now, lets convert the previous missile cost numbers into how many Shahed-136 they could buy: Stinger - 6 AIM-9X - 23.6 AIM-120 - 54.75 Patriot PAC3 - 150. The previous cost trade off is why Russian Shahed-136 attacks on Ukraine are SEAD and not terrorist strikes. Russia can trade the cost of US Stingers for Iranian Shahed-136 and win economically. And Russian Orlan-10 drones being downed by Buk missiles are achieving the same.
The SEAD numbers are even worse when you look at manned PSU jet fighters. The AFU lost a Mig-29 to a Shahed-136 when it closed to gun range for its 5th kill and ate debris from the last Shahed-136. The result was a smoking hole in the ground where a ~$30 million Mig-29 & $5 million in missiles wound up.The cost of replacing that Mig-29 & its weapons was equal to the cost 1,750 Shahed-136.
Please note that the issue is that Cold War manned aircraft are 1000 times more costly than WW2 fighters & lawn mower engine prop drones they are 100 times cheaper than a Nazi V-1 in today's dollars.Cheap, small, low and slow is the way to beat modern western air defenses.
Und gerade deshalb beispielsweise Kampfpanzer mit Mittelkaliber MK !
BLICK VON OSTEN:
Zur Abwechslung mal das offizielle russische Staatsfernsehen:
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/statu...fmm_crAAAA