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Sukhoi Su-30SM, Russian Air Force
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Sukhoi Su-30LL demonstrator flying along the runway.
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A Russian SU-30SM shot down by Ukrainian forces.
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Local authorities in Venezuela have discovered a Vympel R-73 short range air-to-air missile, used by the Sukhoi Su-30 fleet serving the country, inside a house in Palo Seco, Guárico State, leading to the arrest of the owner of the house.
The missile was apparently recovered after a 2019 crash of an Su-30 in the area.
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French Air Force releases images of interception of Russian aircraft in the Baltic Sea
Russian warplanes were intercepted by NATO jets a few hours after Putin's new nuclear threat to the West.
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 03/03/2024 - 12:30 in Interceptions, Military
On 1º March, NATO reported that French Mirage 2000-5 fighters intercepted Russian Su-30SM fighters over the Baltic Sea. Moments later, two more Russian aircraft, an Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft and an An-72 transport aircraft, were also intercepted by French Air Force jets on a NATO mission.
NATO and the French Air Force released videos and images of the interception of Russian fighters, a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a new threat to the West about the nuclear war, where he said that Russia could cause the "destruction of civilization", by stating that NATO forces are "preparing to attack Russian territory".
Check out how it looks, when 2 ?? Mirage 2000-5 intercept 2 ?? SU-30-M aircraft over the Baltic Sea yesterday
Directly after ?? fighters were re-tasked to a new mission, where they also intercepted a ?? AN-72 flying in international airspace North of ?? #SecuringTheSkies #NATOpic.twitter.com/wszcsdoc4U
— NATO Air Command (@NATO_AIRCOM) March 1, 2024
The press service of the NATO Air Force Command said that the incident occurred in international airspace in northern Poland on February 29.
According to NATO, two Mirage 2000-5 of the French Air and Space Force intercepted two Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM jets over the Baltic Sea. Subsequently, the French fighters were sent to a new mission, where they also intercepted two Russian aircraft, an An-72 and an Il-20, which were flying in international airspace in northern Poland, the statement says.
The French aircraft departed from Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, during the NATO Air Policing mission.
In addition, it is noteworthy that these missions were intensified after Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022
The priority : #SecuringTheSkies over the Baltic States. @NATO protects ?? https://t.co/1ADkD6SrWC pic.twitter.com/oOe9Jp2Jor
— Armée française – Opérations militaires (@EtatMajorFR) March 1, 2024
In recent years, there have been several interceptions of aircraft that have not caused any serious incidents.
NATO said that air forces across Europe sent their jets more than 300 times to intercept Russian military aircraft approaching the Alliance's airspace only last year.
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Daily Wrap Up October 23, 2022
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In conversations with his British, French and Turkish counterparts on Sunday, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu conveyed “concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a ‘dirty bomb’,” Moscow said. Earlier Sunday, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, denounced Moscow’s claims as “absurd” and “dangerous”.
A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and the two pilots were killed, officials said, the second such fatal incident in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane.
Russia’s military is pulling troops back from positions on the Dnipro River in the southern Kherson region, according to a Ukrainian official. “They are moving their elite units and officers from the west bank, leaving only those who are mobilized and expendable,” Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military, said Sunday.
According to the National Resistance Center, Russian troops in occupied Kherson are "dismantling telecommunication equipment" in an attempt to stop the city's resistance from sharing the information with Ukraine's Armed Forces. Russian forces plan to leave the city without mobile connection, television and radio broadcasting to create an information blockade in Kherson during Ukraine’s counter-offensive, the National Resistance Center said.
The operator of Kyiv’s energy grid has announced a series of “stabilisation” power cuts following Russian strikes on key infrastructure on Saturday.
“In conversations with his British, French and Turkish counterparts on Sunday, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu conveyed “concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a ‘dirty bomb’,” Moscow said.
Russia did not mention the alleged “dirty bomb” allegation in its statement after Shoigu’s call with Pentagon head Lloyd Austin.
“If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this,” president Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address, Agence France-Presse reports.
“I believe that now the world should react as harshly as possible.”
Earlier Sunday, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, denounced Moscow’s claims as “absurd” and “dangerous”.
“Russians often accuse others of what they plan themselves,” he added.
A statement from US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson on Sunday echoed Ukraine’s words, saying:
“We reject reports of Minister Shoigu’s transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory.
“The world would see through any attempt to use this allegation as a pretext for escalation.””-via The Guardian
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“A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and the two pilots were killed, officials said, the second such fatal incident in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane.
In a post on Telegram, Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev said the plane crashed into a two-storey house in the city. He published a video showing firefighters clambering over the wreckage and directing jets of water at the still smouldering rubble.
No one on the ground was hurt, the governor said.
Officials said the plane was a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter on a test flight. Last Monday, a Sukhoi Su-34 crashed into an apartment block in the southern city of Yeysk, near Ukraine, and at least 15 people were killed.
Authorities said initial investigation of that disaster - in which the pilots ejected - pointed to a technical malfunction of the aircraft.
Videos of Sunday's incident, shared on social media, showed the plane dived almost vertically before crashing in a fireball, sending dense black smoke into the sky. Kobzev said 150 nearby homes were without electricity and work was under way to restore power.
Russia's state Investigative Committee said it had launched a criminal investigation into violations of air safety rules.”-via Reuters
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“Russia’s military is pulling troops back from positions on the Dnipro River in the southern Kherson region, according to a Ukrainian official.
“They are moving their elite units and officers from the west bank, leaving only those who are mobilized and expendable,” Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military, said Sunday.
“We continue to move the front line. But they are firmly ensconced behind their defensive line,” Humeniuk continued. “They are trying to concentrate their forces on the east bank.”
Some background: Kherson — a gateway to Crimea near the Black Sea — was annexed by Russia last month amid wide international condemnation.
This weekend, Kremlin-backed leaders ordered residents to evacuate occupied Kherson city. Russian forces are struggling to withstand an oncoming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russia claims it has not lost ground to Ukraine in Kherson but is evacuating civilians for their own safety, moving them east.
“The evacuation of the city of Kherson continues. We provide maximum assistance to all those traveling to the eastern part of the Kherson region and other subjects of the Russian Federation,” Kirill Stremousov, a Russian-appointed official in Kherson, said Sunday.
Ukraine accuses Russia of creating “hysteria” as a justification to forcibly remove residents.
CNN cannot independently verify the recent troop movements reported by each country’s military.”-via CNN
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“According to the National Resistance Center, Russian troops in occupied Kherson are "dismantling telecommunication equipment" in an attempt to stop the city's resistance from sharing the information with Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Russian forces plan to leave the city without mobile connection, television and radio broadcasting to create an information blockade in Kherson during Ukraine’s counter-offensive, the National Resistance Center said.
On Oct. 18, Moscow-installed proxy in Kherson Oblast Vladimir Saldo announced an "organized displacement" of 50,000–60,000 Ukrainians from Kherson to the territories "on the Dnipro River’s left bank." He said that all Russian top proxies, including himself, will move too. The city of Kherson is fully located on the river’s right bank.
Kirill Stremousov, one of the top Russian proxies in Kherson Oblast, said on Oct. 19 that Ukrainian forces might soon start advancing on Kherson and called locals to flee.”-via Kyiv Independent
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“The operator of Kyiv’s energy grid has announced a series of “stabilisation” power cuts following Russian strikes on key infrastructure on Saturday.
More than a million households were left without electricity after strikes on energy facilities across Ukraine.
In a statement on its website, energy company DTEK said the national energy operator, Ukrenegro, had introduced the cuts in the capital to “avoid accidents”.
The blackouts began at 11.13am local time (09.30am BST), with households in Kyiv divided into three groups that will be “disconnected for a certain period of time”, DTEK said.
It added that the blackouts should last “no more than four hours” but may be longer “due to the scale of damage to the power supply system”.
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Yeah okay, so to anyone that might be freaking out about the Su-27/MQ 9 collision and if it might lead to a US-Russian conflict, honestly it’s really blasé compared to what it could be. If anything it’s funny.
The MQ 9 Reaper is an unmanned drone (UAV = unmanned aerial vehicle). Key word: unmanned. This would be a different story if this were an incident between two pilots. However, it’s not. It’s an incident between one pilot in a $30 million aircraft and a $32 million remote-controlled/autonomous-capable drone.
At most this footage displays the historic unprofessionalism and poor training of most Russian pilots. The pilot dumps fuel on the drone for whatever reason. That plume you see? Fuel dumping. And then the pilot attempts to physically hit the drone - which costs more than his own aircraft in conversion - in the propellor. The Reaper is basically a fly. The Russian pilot just attempted to spray it with Raid and then gave up on that and used themselves as the world’s most costly flyswatter. Make no mistake that the damage they could’ve inflicted on themselves is a real and dangerous possibility. If the pilot were smart (or perhaps better trained) they should’ve just used the Su-27’s GSh-30-1 30 mm autocannon platform. What a far more intelligent (and safer) idea.
See, in bird culture, this shit would be a dick move. Like what the fuck dude! I’m flying here! I don’t even have food! Pilot doesn’t even have the mind to use disrespect chaff or flares for style points. I know the Flanker has them. Big Сука Sukhoi playing stupid fuck fuck games at the wheel of whack-fuck. This is going in the United States’ cringe compilation.
#callsign gremlin checking in#gremlin’s things with wings#honestly y’all I would not be afraid of this thing#also apologies — the Reaper might be $56-57 million??#different sources say different things#either way the fucking UAV is MORE EXPENSIVE than an entire fighter jet#Russia playing FAFO militarily or economically with the United States is such a monumentally idiotic idea#I’m sorry y’all I’ve just been seeing people freak out over this news#LIKE OH MY GOD THE BIG BOYS ARE GOING TO GO TO WAR#shut up y’all for real this is something that can be (and hopefully will be) handled diplomatically#this shit is just reckless endangerment and stupidity#once again it’s going in the cringe compilation#and no I’m not deleting this post#also if I see ANY Federation sympathizers in my inbox or replies - you will be receiving absolutely ZERO kind treatment#Youtube
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"Canard Club"
Front to back: Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 and Dassault Rafale with an RAF Eurofighter Typhoon
#Combat aircraft#Military aviation#Jet#airplane#canards#Sukhoi#Su-30#Dassault#Rafale#Eurofighter#Typhoon#Fighter jets#Formation
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notes & observations from watching Top Gun: Maverick a stupid number of times
The plaque that Maverick takes his aviators off of in the opening scene mentions the 412th Test Wing, an Air Force wing based out of Edwards Air Force Base in California (not to far from the Mojave desert). I was a bit confused since Mav is obviously still in the Navy, but after some googling I did find out Edwards AFB does host VX-9 Detachment Edwards, which is a part of the Navy's Operational Test and Evaluation Force (the rest of VX - 9 is stationed at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake at China Lake, California). So maybe Mav is a part of VX - 9 at the beginning of the movie.
I also finally noticed that during the Darkstar test flight sequence, there is a map tracking exactly where Maverick is as he's flying Darkstar. Assuming he took off from Edwards, this is the flight path the map shows and where Maverick crashes (some where over southwest Idaho). Just looking at where he crashed, I highly doubt it was just a helicopter ride back the next day so that's another example of the movie not understanding how time & distance work in the real world (I'm looking at you, scene that makes it look like Rooster & Mav get to the F-14 in just minutes instead of the at least 2hrs it more likely took).
Going by the quick glances we get of how they're all sitting together when Warlock is introducing Maverick, combined with the quick glances inside the cockpits during the dogfight training montage I can say with a good amount of confidence that Fritz is a single seater and that Harvard is Yale's WSO and Halo is Omaha's WSO.
A random thing about Cyclone - in the scene where he's chewing Mav out for breaking the hard deck, you can see a bag of golf clubs leaning against the wall behind Warlock.
Iceman has two multi-line phones sitting on his desk in his home office. Man is in charge of the entire Pacific fleet so there is no doubt he has to make a lot of phone calls. I also bet that one of those phones has direct access to the White House and/or the Pentagon.
Rooster & Bob are both wearing the 1st Navy Jack Shoulder Patch on their left shoulders instead of the American Flag. Not sure if they're allowed to wear this patch instead of the American Flag or if it was just a mistake by the movie's wardrobe department.
You can see Hondo wearing a version of it when he's sitting in the back of the classroom when Cyclone is telling them Maverick has been pulled from the mission. His looks like this and he has a green/black American flag on the other shoulder.
The honor guard at Ice's funeral is comprised entirely of Marines. I know the Marines are a part of the Navy, but I would have thought the honor guard for someone like Ice would have been all sailors instead.
I just really want to know how in the heck Penny already knew about Maverick getting pulled from the mission/grounded after Ice's funeral before he got to her. I know she's an admiral's daughter so what kind of connections does she still have that news like that got to her that fast???
For anyone wondering, the enemy 5th Gen fighters shown in the movie are Russian made Sukhoi Su-57s.
And while the movie obviously never names a specific country as 'the enemy', based on what the target is, the terrain, and the fact that 'the enemy' still has old F-14s, it's obviously Iran. They're also the only country in the world still flying F-14s.
While the movie makes it look like it took just a few minutes for Mav to find Rooster and for the two of them to steal the F-14, the time between Mav going down and Rooster turning his eSat on is (like I mentioned earlier) more like 2-3 hours, minimum. It probably took Mav a minimum of 20mins to get to Rooster and then it definitely took them at least an hour to get to the ridge over looking the bombed out air field and then another 30-45mins of sneaking down said ridge without getting caught.
That crazy maneuver the enemy fighter does is called Kvochur's Bell Maneuver. You can see a video of a plane doing it here. (the Cobra maneuver Mav does in the dogfight training montage is also a real thing and you can watch an F-18 do one here)
Going with the assumption the target is in Iran, the carrier they launch from is in the Persian Gulf. So it probably took a good 48hrs to get everyone out there and on the ship and then another 48hrs to get everyone home. There for it is also physically impossible for the carrier to make it back to San Diego the next day after the mission. Honestly, between how long it would take to get back and all of the debriefing, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a week post-mission before Maverick walked into the bar looking for Penny.
#top gun#top gun maverick#pete maverick mitchell#bradley rooster bradshaw#top gun maverick fanfiction#this is what happens when you watch a movie 13x
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New deception tactics? British intelligence spotted a helicopter parked on a jet fighter in Russia - Technology Org
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New deception tactics? British intelligence spotted a helicopter parked on a jet fighter in Russia - Technology Org
Various deception techniques are used by both sides in the war in Ukraine. Military dummies – fake weapons and other assets, built to provoke the enemy into wasting ammo and other resources – have been used heavily since WW2, but the war in Ukraine definitely saw an increased use of this technique. However, Russians are landing their helicopters on their jet fighters now.
Sukhoi S-30 is a twin-engine jet fighter, not a place for a helicopter to land. Image credit: Евгений Пурель via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Military decoys are usually inflatable or built from cheap construction materials. They are 3-dimensional things. In fact, old machinery that is beyond repair is often used for this purpose. However, decoys can be simply painted on concrete or asphalt. These 2-dimensional dummies cannot fool a low-flying drone or other close observation equipment, but they can trick satellite imagery.
Russia has been painting jet fighters in its airfields and ships in its docks. The idea is simple – satellite imagery will indicate the presence of certain assets. The defenders of Ukraine will send drones or cruise missiles to eliminate those assets. Once they reach the destination, it won’t matter if they figure out that it was a deception – it will be too late. Ukraine will waste its weapons and intelligence resources.
The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom noted that at least 12 Russian air bases, including the ones in the occupied Crimea, have paintings of jet fighters on asphalt or concrete. Just the very fact that the UK knows that shows that these decoys are not 100 % effective and can be distinguished from the real fighter jets quite reliably. Especially if Russia messes up its own deception tactics.
Russian helicopters have been parking on faux Su-30s and other jet fighters:
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 02 April 2024.
Find out more about Defence Intelligence’s use of language: https://t.co/VLI1JhTxbL#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/rGi9A7DqCR
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) April 2, 2024
Helicopters don’t normally land on other aircraft, which means that images like this are a dead giveaway. However, there are other ways to figure out even the most realistic painting from a real craft.
For starters, real jets move. If a jet fighter remains stationary for long periods of time, it is fake. No one leaves such military assets just standing there doing nothing for no reason, especially not in the time of war. Secondly, fighter jets might be sleek and slim, but they are still 3-dimensional objects. They cast shadows, which change depending on the time of day. Finally, Russian drawings commonly are incorrect size as not much care is put into their photorealism.
But these kinds of decoys can be deceiving and at least waste intelligence resources. That is why a misplaced helicopter is so funny – it removed any kind of doubt if anyone would have some.
Written by Povilas M.
Sources: The UK’s Ministry of Defence, Wikipedia
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