Ukrainian drones hit a significant amount of Tu-95MS, Tu-22 M33 and A-50s(reportedly 40+ in total)

[gambit]

Maybe. Maybe not.

An acquaintance of mine was at Lakenheath about that time.

I was working with the 355th CES at DM at that time as well.

Davis, eh? A few yrs ago, me and some friends from Hill took a bike trip down to Davis, unfortunately, because of security reasons, we were all confined to the tour bus.

Yeah...I had a few friends at 'Heath. Sadly, they all passed, and the few from Heyford are slowly going out. I made one friend from Det 9 who told me the SR-71 can go faster than Mach 3, and I got to listened to some mission tapes.

 

[majesticpug]

I hope Chinese military are watching and taking their notes!

Why wasn't there any air defense for airfields, esp. those of strategic values? I'd suppose air defenses and a brigade of special forces would be a given.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Why wasn't there any air defense for airfields, esp. those of strategic values? I'd suppose air defenses and a brigade of special forces would be a given.

Air defenses for toys? That probably were no more than a 100 feet or so AGL and a few hundred yards from their targets?

 

[majesticpug]

Such operation is almost impossible in China.

I am in AI/big data business, police and national securiy agency were/are the one of the biggest customers for AI/big data tech in China for years.

First of all, China has large AI networks for national security, supervisoring all money transfers within China, and we also have big-data and AI for national security to track all sensitive material transfers, needless to say probably billions of CCTV networked to national security center.

The AI will automatically connect the dots and give police red-alter to potential criminal acts.

You cannot even buy spare parts and assmebly an airgun in China without being caught by police nowadays, the AI will automactally studied your behaviors in the past to guess what you are plan to do in the future.

There is no way in hell someone can assembly so many attack UAV in China without some high red alter pop up in our national security agency's monitor screen.

Your answer is so offfffff. This is not a civilian operation. It's a covert military operation by an enemy state. Whatever China has in between the enemy and China's valuable assets such as an airbase, an air defense and a brigade of special forces should be a minimum as a last line of protection.

 

[majesticpug]

Air defenses for toys? That probably were no more than a 100 feet or so AGL and a few hundred yards from their targets?

I'm sure a few Pantsir-S1 units and some laser guns like China's Silent Hunter should not be too much investment for an airfield filled with $B worth of jets.

 

[MH.Yang]

Your answer is so offfffff. This is not a civilian operation. It's a covert military operation by an enemy state. Whatever China has in between the enemy and China's valuable assets such as an airbase, an air defense and a brigade of special forces should be a minimum as a last line of protection.

As a matter of fact, these people should have been recognized by the Skynet system the first time they entered the country and then categorized by big data as key targets for prevention and control. It would be difficult for them to gather so many offensive weapons without being detected by the Skynet system.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I'm sure a few Pantsir-S1 units and some laser guns like China's Silent Hunter should not be too much investment for an airfield filled with $B worth of jets.

For the drones that were launched from those trucks, shotguns would have been a better choice.

 

[guangdongt]

Regarding civilian airports, I seriously believe that the targets of the attack will include civilian airports:Take a look at how much a 25km dedicated fiber optic bucket for drones weighs, only 2.2kg. Also, take a look at how close domestic airports are to large residential areas such as county towns
At present, the unmanned aerial vehicle jamming systems or so-called anti unmanned machine guns purchased by domestic airports are not very useful for current fiber optic drones
It is necessary to develop a new anti drone suicide drone system, as the current land-based laser weapons have significant deficiencies in their combat capabilities
Building a machine shed is the fastest and most cost-effective method of protection, coupled with lasers and a brand new anti drone system
Especially, it is necessary to design a metal protective shed that can withstand at least two FPVs and can be quickly constructed. Strengthening aircraft fortifications is too expensive, and it is impossible for domestic military airports to fully cover them. Even with our civil engineering capabilities, the construction time is too long.
For military airports, wartime airports generally accommodate far more fighter jets than usual, and building large hangars cannot quench the thirst for nearby aircraft. It may be necessary to install newly developed simple metal protective hangars

hangars

 

[majesticpug]

One word - pearl Harbor - Soviet version

Interesting that Indians are happy(?) over Russia's biggest loss since WWII. But if you said 'Pearl Harbor', then do you know what happened to Japan since that event?

I don't know what does Z try to get out of all these attacks on civilians, Putin, and now strategic bombers. You don't try to hit the bully when you know you can't handle the bully. It doesn't look like he wants to end the war.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Interesting that Indians are happy(?) over Russia's biggest loss since WWII. But if you said 'Pearl Harbor', then do you know what happened to Japan since that event?

I don't know what does Z try to get out of all these attacks on civilians, Putin, and now strategic bombers. You don't try to hit the bully when you know you can't handle the bully. It doesn't look like he wants to end the war.

Putin hasn't shown any signs of wanting to end the war either.

 

[gambit]

Looks like Ukraine is handing the Russian bully quite well.

 

[j_hungary]

I'm sure a few Pantsir-S1 units and some laser guns like China's Silent Hunter should not be too much investment for an airfield filled with $B worth of jets.

This is an irregular ops, you can't defend it like that, it's like asking what a proper defence on people who strap a suicide vest and try to kill you and blow up an airfield.

You can't defend once they strapped on a bomb and standing next to the queue to get into the airfield. This is the same way here, even if you have anti-drone device, you are talking about hundreds of drone, they are going to swamp you.

You defend this the same way people thraw a suicide bomber attack, you defend yourself from not letting the bomber to strap on a bomb to begin with, you stop this at the border when they smuggle the drone in, once it came in, you can't stop them, even if there is proper defence in those airfield, at worse they are just going to change target and hit something else, you are talking about hundred if not more high value target in Russia. Not all of them are going to be defended in Primo.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Interesting that Indians are happy(?) over Russia's biggest loss since WWII. But if you said 'Pearl Harbor', then do you know what happened to Japan since that event?

I don't know what does Z try to get out of all these attacks on civilians, Putin, and now strategic bombers. You don't try to hit the bully when you know you can't handle the bully. It doesn't look like he wants to end the war.

When I said that I'm happy?

 

[Developereo]

I don't know what does Z try to get out of all these attacks

Zelensky has the same plan as Netanyahu of Israel: to escalate the conflict into a regional war where the US and Europe have to directly get involved.

 

[j_hungary]

Zelensky has the same plan as Netanyahu of Israel: to escalate the conflict into a regional war where the US and Europe have to directly get involved.

I don't think Ukraine can escalate this war into Regional War, they are already at war with Russia, so doing ops inside Russia is nothing, unless they are also thinking of invading Belarus, the only one that can escalate this war is Russia if they fancy to invade Moldova or Georgia or even Baltic NATO states, otherwise this war is going to stay between Russia and Ukraine.