ALLIED RESOLVE 2022 + the war that followed

[hammarö]

The blown up weapons storage was a open storage in a little forrest close to a village over a street.

Not very planned, made in haste.

In other cases have the Russian storages large mounts of earth as protection.

This weapons arsenal was rather close to the Kursk battlefeld in a little forrest, and not very well placed.

[hammarö]

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence says its forces have shot down a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea, sharing a video of the apparent strike.

Early on Wednesday, a Ukrainian special forces unit fired a man-portable air defense system, or MANPADS, at the Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM, which crashed into the sea around 44 miles northwest of Cape Tarkhankut in western Crimea, officials said in a Telegram post.

According to the DI officials, it belonged to the 43rd Separate Naval Aviation Regiment of the Russian army, and was based out of Saki airbase (or Novofedorovka) in western Crimea. While Crimean Wind first said the plane was based out of Krymsk, in Russia's Krasnodar, it then updated a post to say it was from Saki.

The accompanying video shows aerial images before switching to what appears to be the MANPADS' targeting view, with a fighter jet flying into its crosshairs. It said a telltale streak of jet fuel was found on the water, as well as parts of the plane's wreckage.

The outlet reported the source as saying that the jet had been accompanied by a Su-35, and that the Su-30 launched four Kh-31P missiles while in the air, before vanishing off the radar. The Su-30SM used the Su-35 ECM shadow. It shows that Su-30SM and Su-35S still use the Crimea air bases.

The outlet reported the source as saying that the jet had been accompanied by a Su-35, and that the Su-30 launched four Kh-31P missiles while in the air, before vanishing off the radar.

Oryx, an open-source intelligence site that uses visual evidence to track weaponry losses, says it has confirmed the loss of 11 Russian Su-30s since February 2022. They are certainly more. Oryx are for example not counting Su-30SM losses on Russian ground.

[hammarö]

The 43rd Separate Naval Aviation Regiment is a part Russian of the Russian Navy. They have lost several on missile or drone attacks on the Novofedorovka air base. Other bases of the Russian Navys Su-30SM are Kaliningrad Chernyakovsk and Murmansk Severomorsk-1 and Severomorsk-3 air bases. Aircraft from these bases are certainly also partcipating from the Novofedorovka base.

[FredL]

One Russian Navy Su-30 lost over the Black Sea with the loss of both crews.
While the aircraft is said to have been involved in a mission related to the war, the cause of the crash is not clear.
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/421823