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Kyiv shoots down second AWACS plane in major blow to Moscow
(www.euronews.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
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I wanted to continue off of your well* written comment.
These planes are damn near irreplaceable for RU, they require very advanced electronics and sensitive equipment. They already had a very limited number of these planes in service, nevermind actually capable of doing their actual jobs. They are invaluable so far as providing top down radar of a battlefield for RU, and this is a massive, massive loss. Absolutely wreckless for this type of craft to not have a fighter wing with them.
Amazing job UA.
Edit: I a word
I'd argue that in this case it was reckless, but very wreckful.
Damn that's a rare piece of good news for UA.
I think there usually are also a few pretty important high-ranking generals on those planes.
Not really generals, but specialiced and valuable operators which are also very hard to replace.