As I said, the Slavs are a magical people, and in the event of a large advantage, they can achieve a defeat that exceeds ordinary people's expectations. Who would have thought that at the critical moment when the Russian army is preparing for a new round of offensive against Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula located in the rear will be pulled back by the Ukrainian Air Force......
Some time ago, Russia's landing ship on the Crimean Peninsula was blown up, which caused great losses to the Russian army, because now Russia is still pointing to the landing ship to carry out troop deployment on the southern front.
It turned out to be gone.
Although this does not change the pace of Russia's large-scale offensive against the Ukrainian army in the winter, it is at least a little delayed.
According to the war report of the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian Air Force aviation used Su-27 during this air strike.
So the next question is, this battle has been fought for so long, why has it not yet seized absolute air supremacy. Isn't Russia's air force and air defense a little too stretched?
First of all, there are definitely a lot of Russian ground planes. Even in absolute numbers, it is much higher than that of European countries. At present, the Russian Aerospace Forces have more than 2,000 military aircraft and helicopters of various types, including more than 70 strategic bombers and more than 800 air superiority fighters. That's more than any other country in Europe.
In terms of performance, Russian fighters are actually not bad, there are third-generation and fourth-generation aircraft, and fifth-generation aircraft...... Let's count him as if he has, after all, you can't help but use bean bags as dry food.
But even so, the performance of the Russian Air Force is still very poor. Not to mention the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. In Chechnya, the Russian Air Force was blown up once. When fighting Georgia, it was obviously a crushing game of less than a week, but the Air Force suffered a big loss at the hands of Georgia. During the Syrian civil war, in the face of an enemy that basically did not have much air force, the Russian Air Force was still able to fight a defeat to show you.
When it comes to the air force of the most humiliating power of our time, no one dares to say that Russia is the first when it says that it is second.
What the Russian army lacks is an excellent AWACS aircraft.
Of course, Russia itself has AWACS aircraft, such as the A50 and A100, but the performance of these two AWACS aircraft is simply too backward. It's not comparable to the world's leading level. Unable to catch up with the information age.
If you ask Russia to develop a new AWACS aircraft, it will be a bit too difficult for them to produce electronic information, and the only reliable way is to buy it. First of all, there is no need to consider the early warning planes of the Western camps, such as Israel and the United States, and among the countries that still maintain normal diplomatic channels with Russia, only the mainland can provide Russia with reliable and modern early warning planes.
At present, there are three kinds of core early warning aircraft on the mainland, namely the Air Police 2000, the Air Police 200 and the Air Police 500. Then there is the Air Police 200, although the output is large enough, but the balance beam radar is used, and there are certain limitations in the detection angle and distance.
Finally, the Air Police 500 combines the advantages of the Air Police 2000 and the Air Police 200 at the same time, realizing a small platform and a large early warning. As a small early warning aircraft, but equipped with a very advanced radar, the radar is installed with the mainland's most advanced digital array components, its search and positioning targets, heat dissipation, anti-electronic jamming capabilities are much stronger than foreign radars in the same period. The search distance is considerable. It can track 100 targets at the same time and search for a distance of more than 400 kilometers, which is completely enough in terms of the width of the battlefield of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, whether it is the Ukrainian army taking off or the Ukrainian army launching missiles, it cannot escape the eyes of the air police 500.
Now Russia, in the absence of effective AWACS aircraft, can only operate through ground-based radars and fighters' own radars. The reconnaissance radius is extremely small. Although the Ukrainian side does not have AWACS aircraft, NATO has a satellite intelligence network, which replaces the function of AWACS aircraft to a certain extent. Therefore, on the current Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, as far as the air force operation is concerned, it is in a state of one-way transparency.
Therefore, only by getting an advanced AWACS aircraft can we help the Russian Aerospace Forces open up the situation.
It's just that the Russians have been in a very tangled state about the purchase of large equipment from China. They want to buy it again, but out of the consideration of wanting to maintain their position in the top three countries in the world, they do not want to use Chinese equipment. At least not to buy Chinese heavy equipment.
Since the Russians are so entangled, China has no choice but to respect the fate of others. However, Russia, which lacks an important environment, will definitely be attacked by Ukraine from time to time in the air force operations in the future.