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Да, навистина едукативно!Добро објаснување како функционира процесот во руската авијација.
The VKS has on average two, sometimes three or even four Beriev A-50 SRDLOs airborne. One is usually on station over Belarus, the other somewhere around Rostov (i.e. south-western Russia): both about 70-100km away from the border, so to remain outside the maximum potential range of Ukrainian S-300s (long-range surface-to-air missiles; ASCC/NATO-codename ‘SA-10 Grumble’).
A-50s are the centrepiece of VKS operations. They’re acting primarily as ‘airborne traffic control’ for the mass of other aircraft, i.e. coordinating their movement. Reconnaissance is run by slower and bigger platforms like Ilyushin Il-20 and Il-22 and Tupolev Tu-214R (COMINT/ELINT/SIGINT-gatherers). Their primary task is to monitor and track down the work of headquarters of different Ukrainian ground units. Ground troops have forward air controllers (FACs) deployed with them, and are equipped with mini-UAVs that run the tactical reconnaissance. All of these instances are feeding targeting info to A-50s, which then select targets by their priority and assign them to available fighter-bombers.
Generally, fighter-bomber operations are run in form of two, rarely three major waves of air raids a day. Each is led by Su-24MRs, which are searching for Ukrainian air defences – primarily S-300/SA-10s and Buk (ASCC/NATO-codename ‘SA-17 Grizzly’). These are followed by Su-34 and Su-35s armed with Kh-31 (ASCC/NATO-codename ‘AS-17 Krypton’), which are fired only if a target – say: early-warning/acquisition- or fire-control radar of some Ukrainian SAM-site – is acquired and confirmed.
Fighter-bomber pilots launch after being supplied with geographic coordinates of potential targets within their assigned zone of operations: the A-50 is selecting targets based on priority (usually assigned by higher HQ). This is why the flight-endurance is at premium – i.e. why such big jets like Su-34 are as appreciated by the Russians, and why shorter-ranged jets (like Su-25s) and attack helicopters can be seen flying equipped with four or two drop tanks, respectivelly, these days: it often happens the VKS has 15-20 or more jets circling in the skies north or east of the border, ‘waiting for their turn’. Su-27SMs and Su-35s are then providing top cover; Su-30s and Su-34s are usually directed against bigger targets behind the frontline; while Su-25s and attack helicopters into close-support sorties, or strikes on targets along the frontline.
So much about ‘Russian Air Force cannot conduct complex operations’….
Now., many of you are asking why are… actually: many of you are not asking, but accusing - pilots of the VKS for intentionally striking hospitals? No doubt, considering the ‘Syria experience’, and considering VKS attacks on maternity hospitals in Mariupol and Zhitomir (plus 16 other places), logical conclusion is that, yes, ‘Russian pilots are intentionally targeting hospitals’.
Actually, this is entirely wrong.
‘Russian pilots’ do not bomb ‘hospitals’: they bomb geographic coordinates.
Contrary to the navigational systems in your car, there is no option to ‘enter city/address’ in navigational systems of Russian aircraft: the crew is only entering geographic coordinates.
Attached is a simple ‘orientational diagram’ captured together with a VKS Su-25-pilot shot down over Ukraine about a week ago. As can be seen, this is containing geographic coordinates, ONLY. Few other captured Russian pilots have had slightly more complex diagrams with them, shown azimuths/courses and distances between coordinates, too. Such diagrams (sometimes applied directly into maps) are used by Soviet/Russian pilots for ages already.
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Why that? Because, once airborne there's no time for minutes-long explanation of where is what. The controller in the A-50 calls the pilot/formation by its call sign, and assigns target coordinates. That's all.
So, why does the VKS then strike medical facilities so often?
In Syria, the VKS hit over 100 medical facilities, most of these 3-4 times, for a total of 492 registered air strikes on medical facilities.
In Ukraine so far, it hit 18 medical facilities.
Because that’s the Russian way of fighting wars. It’s a part of strategy aiming to spread terror, break morale, and prompt civilians to flee.
Who is responsible for this?
Kremlin, i.e. Putin. He's the only one determining the strategy. Shoygu and Gerasimov are then responsible for 'converting' Putin's political directives into military orders.
They are issuing orders to the HQ West OSK and the HQ South OSK (i.e the headquarters of the Military Districts West and South).
Mind: the officers serving there are military officers, and all the military officers in every armed force – no matter where or what, in the USA, in the UK, in Israel, in Italy, in France, in Egypt, in Brazil, in Vanuatu, or on Mars – are indoctrinated to trust their superiors, to pay attention only at official military sources, and to obey orders, not to discuss them.
Thus, everybody follows orders from above.
....and then: the HQ West OSK and the HQ South OSK are ordering specific VKS units to strike specific targets. Bellow that level, nobody knows what is the actual target. The HQ does not say ‘this is a hospital’. It says things like, ‘intelligence says this building is a HQ/base/ammunition depot of Nazis/Extremists/Nationalists/whatever’. The officers at HQs of selected VKS units – all of whom are fed only the officially sanctioned information about the situation – then check the coordinates and order their pilots to strike these coordinates…and that’s how the rock starts to roll…
Thus, instead of blaming ‘Russian pilots’, follow press briefings by such characters like the spokesman of Kremlin, or the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova: especially the latter is de-facto announcing strikes on specific hospitals – and that in advance (and then always denying them as ‘fake news’).
Вакво нешто не би напишал ни оној Неџад Јовановиќ.
