The Ukrainian side claimed to have successfully shot down an A-50 AWACS aircraft and damaged an Il-22M air command aircraft on the 15th. However, at the moment Russia has not responded to this matter.
If the information released by Ukraine is true, then it will disgrace Russia on the global stage, because AWACS aircraft have never been shot down in any war since World War II.
Therefore, if the Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft is shot down, it will be an unprecedented feat.
Although it is not possible to confirm the accuracy of the message at the moment, the downing of the Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft has become a fact that cannot be ignored. AWACS aircraft undertakes a vital early warning task on the battlefield, and its main responsibility is to detect enemy air targets and ground-based radars.
AWACS is difficult to shoot down because it is able to detect enemy air targets and ground-based radars with unerring accuracy, and even disable these radars with electronic warfare aircraft.
It can be said that as long as the AWACS aircraft appears, the air within a radius of several hundred kilometers will belong to its own safe zone. However, this time Russia turned out to have shot down an AWACS aircraft, which is undoubtedly a shocking event.
Although Russia has invested a lot of military power in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it has not yet fully achieved air supremacy due to the scarcity of AWACS and electronic warfare aircraft. The recent downing of an A-50 has posed a serious challenge to Russia's air security.
Russia's performance on the battlefield is not satisfactory, which makes its previous ** pre-cooling, which was welcomed by the international market. In fact, even the early warning aircraft, known as the "air radar", was shot down, which made the international community lose confidence in Russia's ** equipment, and may even trigger a wave of returns.
Judging from Russia's performance on the battlefield and the speed of its first-class manufacturing service, the current level of Russia's military manufacturing has significantly lagged behind the world's leading level.
Although Russia has announced that it will equip a batch of high-end** in 2024, including the Tu-160M long-range strategic bomber, in reality, apart from this bomber, the Russian army does not seem to have any other equipment that threatens European, American and Nordic countries.
Russia's war can be said to be a very defeat, not only bogging itself into the quagmire of war, but also making the international situation worse. Although the current war situation is still favorable to them, it is undoubtedly a failure for a small country to fight like this as a former world supermilitary power.