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Related: About this forumIncredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane
Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50M/U Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Video that circulated online on Friday reportedly depicts the A-50s burning wreckage in Krasnodar Krai, in Russia just east of the Sea of Azov.
The location of the crash, at least 120 miles from the front line in southern Ukraine, could indicate the four-engine, 15-person radar plane either suffered a mechanical failureor took a hit while operating closer to the front and tried to make it back to its base in Krasnodar before exploding.
For what its worth, the Ukrainian air force claimed it shot down the A-50 with assistance from the intelligence directorate in Kyiv.
Either way, its a devastating blow for the battered Russian air force. The air arm has lost, mostly to Ukrainian long-range surface-to-air missilesAmerican-made Patriot PAC-2s, in particularnine of its best planes in just a month. Including an A-50 that the Ukrainians hit over the Sea of Azov in January.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/23/incredibly-the-russian-air-force-has-lost-another-one-of-its-rare-a-50-radar-planes/
The location of the crash, at least 120 miles from the front line in southern Ukraine, could indicate the four-engine, 15-person radar plane either suffered a mechanical failureor took a hit while operating closer to the front and tried to make it back to its base in Krasnodar before exploding.
For what its worth, the Ukrainian air force claimed it shot down the A-50 with assistance from the intelligence directorate in Kyiv.
Either way, its a devastating blow for the battered Russian air force. The air arm has lost, mostly to Ukrainian long-range surface-to-air missilesAmerican-made Patriot PAC-2s, in particularnine of its best planes in just a month. Including an A-50 that the Ukrainians hit over the Sea of Azov in January.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/23/incredibly-the-russian-air-force-has-lost-another-one-of-its-rare-a-50-radar-planes/
It's grimly amusing that Russia's propaganda bloggers would prefer to claim this was a friendly fire incident rather than a hit by Ukraine. Ukrainian intelligence says the A-50 was downed by an S-200 missile.
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Incredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane (Original Post)
Emrys
Feb 24
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niyad
(113,348 posts)2. SLAVA UKRAINI!!! Thank you for the update.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)3. I think they only had...
Three or four of them to begin with. It's the ruzzian version of our AWACS. They're kind of blind without them.