Originally Posted by ORAC
If they turn on their radar, they are locked onto by an anti-radiation missile (HARM) from a Ukrainian plane. The HARM locks on and keep going to the site of the radar, even after they turn in off. Ukraine has eliminated so many Russian AD systems that their drones are now flying all over the Russian lines and beyond.
[Also they likely recovered this tape when UA advanced to this location. Another possible indication of UA advances that are still not posted due to opsec.]
This answers a potential "local air superiority" question I had, somewhat, in terms of a campaign to suppress enemy air defenses.
We'll see how that works out.
They have been learning by bringing ground based hand held air defence missiles to the front line forward area in places, I have also read that Russians are complaing that Ukraine is using their western tanks to pick them off while remaining out of range.
I have also read that they launch Sky Shadow as a package, the Sky Shadow itself, a decoy and an Anti Radar Missile, so if Russia attempts a lock on the Storm Shadow, the ARM takes out the radar.
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