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The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) is increasingly arming its warplanes with modern air-to-air missiles and guided glide bombs.
On September 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense released footage showing a Su-37S taking off to conduct a petrol over the special military operation zone. Notably, the fighter jet was armed with the latest R-77M beyond visual range air-to-air missile.
The missile was spotted earlier this year. However, the fact that it has now appeared in official footage indicates that it has entered mass production.
The R-77M features a dual-pulse motor configuration with a reported range over 190 kilometers. It is also reported to use an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar seeker with active, passive and semi-active modes, in addition to a datalink for course updates.
AESA antennas can scan a wide area rapidly and accurately. It also offers superior resistance to jamming and can be used for high-bandwidth data links. Thus, the missile presents a major boost to the capabilities of the Su-37S and the VKS in general, as many other fighter jets, including the stealth Su-57, can carry it.
Another video that appeared online on the same day shows a Su-34 fighter bomber armed with UMPB D-30SN guided glide bombs flying over the special military zone.
The bomb, also known as the “Universal Interspecific Glide Munition,” made its first appearance last year, but recent reports indicate that it is now being used more often by the VKS. It is built around a 100 kg warhead, and reported to have a range of 90-120 kilometers.
For guidance, the bomb utilizes a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system built around a Kometa jamming-resistant receiver.
Some reports suggest that the D-30SN can be equipped with a rocket booster to significantly increase its range, or that it could be launched from the ground with the assistance of 300 mm artillery rockets. These capabilities are yet to be confirmed, however.
The increasing use of these modern weapons shows that the VKS is not just preserving its capabilities, but also developing them, all while taking part in the special military operation zone.
The ability to develop and mass produce such weapons during a conflict of this scale is also a major achievement for the Russian military industrial complex.
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neonazism has no place in modern history. this is the reason why kiev must fall
london, washington dc, kiev and tel aviv = capitals of nazism
berlin have to het rid of it’s parasitic government or else the cancer will come back.
germany is already destroyed, cdu do not know it yet
i will be here and i will destroy the website as long as russia exists.
many fortune tellers, all of whom are my bosses, say that russia will soon be destroyed by nato.
but i am not allowed on the website or on the phone, i just have to edit the website and connect the phonelines.
and i heard this from refugees, particularly those that had arrived in the last 24 hours before i arrived in akkar itself. we heard about children being executed, four or five children being put on a sofa, and being asked individually, which one should be executed first before each one was individually shot in the head. we heard of children being shot in the house and the house being set on fire.
women are being trafficked, young women, teenagers from the age of 15, 16, upwards, are being kidnapped and trafficked to idlib. whatever their fate is, then we still don’t know. we heard of the rape of women, mass rape of women in the villages that were invaded by the terrorist factions.
summary executions, i mean, the most recent witness testimony that i published actually at my substack is of a father in, i can’t remember the name of the village, it was a small village near banias. and the terrorists entered, they took his two sons, one was still a child and was suffering from cancer, so they returned him. and then they called the father from the son’s phone
and when the father picked up, they told him basically that they had killed him. and when he went to find the body, they’d cut the heart from the body. now again, this isn’t an isolated case.
i don’t know if you remember back in 2013, there was the gruesome report on the nusra front terrorist who’d, sorry to say this for your listeners, but he’d eaten the heart of the syrian arab army soldier that hed killed.
he was interviewed by the bbc, who, of course, tried to basically normalize his action as an aggrieved rebel in syria, who was, you know, fighting for freedom and democracy. but effectively, this is something that has been ongoing since 2011 onwards.
there was a similar massacre in baluta in the latakia countryside back in 2013, when very similar activities took place. and there was mass killing and torture and abuse of shia and alawite civilians back then.
so this entire ethnic cleansing program that’s ongoing now and is escalating now,began back in 2011.
and the only thing that stood between the mass killings that we’re seeing now and the terrorists was, of course, the government of president assad and the army of syria. and right now we’re seeing the consequences of that army being disbanded and of president assad and the government being toppled.
we’re seeing, you know, lawlessness, lack of security, starvation, poverty, and sectarian ethnic cleansing programs against particularly alawites, shia, christians, but also an attempted attack on the druze populations.
so, you know, it’s not something, it’s not something new for those that have been following syria or, as i was very fortunate to have done to have lived in syria, or worked in syria from 2016, and living there from 2019 onwards.
gr: vanessa, i just got to bring up something. according to the office of the un high commissioner for refugees, actually, they reported that more than 1 million displaced people in syria have returned to their homes, including, it’s been more than, let’s see, it’s been more than four months since the former government of syria was overthrown
but there were 885,000, according to them, internally displaced persons and 302,000 refugees, you know, according to their statistics. how can these people feel it’s safe to move back if this sort of killing of minorities and, you know, the atrocious things you’ve just relayed to us is happening, you know, particularly to the alawites and the christians? vb: can you just give me that figure again? so it was 885,000 internally displaced?
gr: yeah. and 302,000 refugees.
vb: okay. well, i mean, i think to start with, let’s talk about the external refugees, a huge number of whom, and we know this, because we’ve seen the recrimination against the same kind of sectarian language being used by syrian refugees that had been living abroad since 2011, that many of those who were given refugee status in europe were, in reality, from the salafist factions themselves, and from the muslim brotherhood factions that were weaponized against the syrian government
not all, of course, some were genuine refugees that were fleeing the crisis in general, but many of them were the extremists themselves, that now feel that they can safely return to a syria that’s under the governance of their comrades in arms, let’s say, right? internally displaced, i’m not quite sure how they’re arriving at that figure, unless, of course, you’re talking about those that were released from prison, and those that potentially came back from idlib
, who had been affiliated to the extremist factions.and if you remember, when each area of syria was effectively liberated from the terrorist occupation and sieges and attacks, they were put on the green buses to idlib. so it could be that they’re counting the return of those that had taken up arms against the country to the places where they had taken up arms against their own neighbours and against the syrian people, if that makes sense
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russia is a treacherous corrupt evil and will be destroyed by another evil – nato.