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| First Russian Su35 downed in Ukraine | 3 potential reasons |
| 2022-04-06 |
| [YouTube - Defense Updates] A Russian Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker-E has been destroyed in combat apparently by a Soviet origin 9K37 Buk Air Defense System used by Ukraine. The fighter jet was hit and shot down in the sky over the Izyum region in eastern Ukraine, about 120 km or 75 miles from Kharkiv. The pilot ejected but was captured by the Ukrainian armed forces. According to reports, the Su-35S Flanker-E was on a SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) mission and armed with Kh-31P air-to-surface missile which is used as an anti-radiation weapon. SEAD missions are carried out to knock out radars and Surface to Air Missile systems. In this video Defense Updates analyzes why even Russia's most lethal operational fighter jet Su-35 is taken out in Ukraine? |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #12 Not attractive Or it's late. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-06 13:52 |
| #11 Thanks, P2K. Very informative. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-06 12:56 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: Greng Black3494 2022-04-06 12:33 |
| #9 I nominate #5 for the snark 'O the day |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-04-06 10:41 |
| #8 mature weapons systems responding like that mature drunk lady at the local bar. Not attractive, unless you are even more drunk. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 10:11 |
| #7 the Su-35S Flanker-E was on a SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) mission ayuh? and how did that work out for ya? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-04-06 10:08 |
| #6 ^ Ow! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 09:44 |
| #5 The Sukhoi had "737" painted on it, and the Buk just couldn't help itself. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2022-04-06 09:42 |
| #4 /\ Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-06 07:16 |
| #3 Once attritable armed drones take over the SEAD mission most ground based AA will be instant toast in a warfighting situation. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 07:15 |
| #2 You keep your systems turned off. You allow other systems to acquire the flight profile information and pass it to the engagement system. You set your acquisition system to engage only to initiate fire at the optimal trade off point to lighting the target and launch, then shut down again. Do this with several launch systems and the suppression craft can't engage them all. Or do like the North Vietnamese did during Line Backer faced with overwhelming SEAD, volley fire into a virtual box without guidance. You'll hit something and they did, however, by day three they were out of SAMs. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-04-06 07:08 |
| #1 No Soviet era weapon profiles? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-06 02:26 |