The S400 missile hit both shots!One shot down the S200 missile, the other shot down the A50 AWACS!Our army should also learn a lesson.
The Russian Air Force has again lost an A50 AWACS aircraft. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Oreshchuk posted on social ** on the evening of the 23rd that the Ukrainian army successfully shot down another Russian A-50 airborne early warning aircraft. Oreshchuk posted a suspected Russian fighter at night on social **. He also expressed his gratitude to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to information previously released by the Ukrainian military, on the evening of January 14, the Ukrainian army attacked an A-50 early warning aircraft and an IL-22 air command aircraft flying in the airspace of the Sea of Azov by the Russian army. This makes one wonder what went wrong with Russia, which lost two AWACS aircraft in a row in the safe airspace of the rear?
Some people who have a disparaging attitude towards Russian ** equipment believe that the Russian A50 AWACS aircraft is too rubbish. It was originally an advanced early warning equipment that anticipated the enemy first, but it became the enemy's prey. The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force said that the exact place where the Russian A50 AWACS aircraft was shot down was on the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov, near the town of Yeysk in the Kra**dar Krai of Russia, 220 kilometers from the frontline positions of the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian side claims that the S200 anti-aircraft missile shot down the plane, which is almost the actual combat limit range of the S200 missile. However, being shot down by a 60-year-old "antique-class" anti-aircraft missile produced in Soviet times, it can only be said that the luck of this A50 AWACS aircraft was too bad.
Judging from the ** announced by Ukraine, the A50 early warning aircraft not only discovered the incoming missile, but also sent the ** heat source jamming bomb in time and made evasive actions. However, it is not the Ukrainian S200 missiles launched from the north that really threaten the A50 AWACS aircraft, but the Russian S400 missiles from behind. No matter how meticulously the Russian Air Force's operations are designed, as long as there is a problem in the communication of information on the battlefield, it can lead to a tragedy of cannibalism.
According to the latest Russian sources, the downed A50 (tail number 42) was escorted by Su-35 fighters at that time. The Ukrainian army used S200 to attempt to attack the AWACS aircraft, but the incoming missile was detected, and the Russian ground air defense missile forces immediately intercepted it, sending two S400 surface-to-air missiles, the first hit the S200 missile, and the second hit its own A50 early warning aircraft. Obviously, this was an oolong accident that led to a tragedy. But the only thing that is comforting to Russia is that the S400 missile hit both shots and performed very well in actual combat.
Russian air defense forces are unable to distinguish between friendly and enemy targets in their own airspace, and the radar signatures of the two targets are noticeably different. On the one hand, it may be a panic error caused by the problem of the soldier's psychological quality and actual combat experience, and on the other hand, it may be that there is a problem in the communication of the A50 early warning aircraft with the data link information of the ground air defense unit. This is an unprecedented test for Russia, so looking back at the battlefield air-ground command system of the US-British coalition forces during the Iraq War, it can be seen that the judgment was made from high to low. The war in Ukraine is underway, we are watching, and our military must learn from it to avoid a repeat of Russia's emptiness.