3“FROM THE ANALYST” TWO MORE DOWNED AS LOSSES MOUNT

Two more Su-34 tactical bombers were taken out yesterday bringing the total to 12 in the past three weeks.
That’s virtually an entire squadron wiped out. The loss of the A50U’s has effectively forced them to operate without command and control or any early warning.
Yet Russia persists using these bombers to deliver the glide bombs in an effort to maintain momentum.
They’re afraid that without them then Ukrainians can’t be kept down sufficiently to allow their poorly trained meatwave troops to move forward.
It’s been suggested that the Ukrainian forces are using an ‘experimental’ ultra long range Patriot missile - but if these aircraft are having to get within
10km and fly at 2000m to deliver the bombs with any hope of a semblance of accuracy, it doesn’t need a special missile to find them.
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