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Beau explains the significance of Ukraine shooting down a high-tech surveillance aircraft and its potential impact on Russia's strategic advantage.
Military analysts, aviation enthusiasts
More detailed analysis on the geopolitical implications and potential responses from Russia.
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Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today, we are going to talk about Ukraine and a plane, a
plane that is making international headlines.
And we're going to talk about why.
So we will talk about the A-50 mainstay, what it does, why
this particular development is so significant, and what it
means if this is something that can be duplicated.
So if you missed the reporting, have no idea what I'm talking about.
It's being reported that Ukraine took down an A-50 mainstay.
That's an AWACS, which is an Airborne Early Warning and Control System.
These are the planes you see in movies that they look like commercial planes, but they
have like a giant dish on the top of them.
Their job is to watch everything.
mainstay it's been a minute but the mainstay I want to say could see out to
like 400 miles something like that it could track 300 ground targets and 40
to 50 air targets at once very complex piece of equipment also incredibly
expensive the mainstay runs a little bit more than 300 million dollars a piece
The last estimate that was available which came out just before the war just
before the Russian invasion of Ukraine said that Russia had ten of them that
were still airworthy. These things are Soviet era. They've had some upgrades but
they're older and they had ten of them that could still fly. Now there was some
reporting that one was already damaged and then now you have this one that was
reportedly shot down. Those are huge losses. We're not talking about 10 to
use in Ukraine. We're talking about 10 total to monitor and provide reconnaissance
along the borders of their entire country. For comparison, the US Air Force,
Forget about the Navy because they have their own, but the U.S. Air Force has 30, 31 of
them, something like that.
This is a big deal.
The other reason that this is going to get mentioned a lot is because these things aren't
shot down very often, not just because they can see things coming, but because they're
pretty well protected most times.
They're not normally risked.
The last one that I'm aware of from any country that was shot down happened in 1969 when some
North Korean MiGs took down a US one.
This is a big deal.
There's also reporting about another reconnaissance aircraft that was taken down, but the more
I look into that, I don't believe that was destroyed. I think it was damaged, but it
looks like it actually was able to land. But the the A-50, there's the reporting
from Ukraine and then you have reporting coming out of the like Russian Telegram
channels and stuff like that that suggests it it was destroyed. Russia
can't lose these because they can't replace them. These are high-tech pieces
of equipment, even the old Soviet ones, are going to be hard to replace. So if
Ukraine can duplicate this and Russia loses that eye in the sky, when Ukraine
starts operating its own air power, whenever that might be, it's going
to remove a significant edge that Russia might have had.
So this is big news.
I mean, this isn't like a single fighter being shot down or something like this.
This is one of those things that really shouldn't have happened.
So now we have to wait and see whether or not Ukraine can duplicate it and do it again.
Anyway, it's just a thought y'all have a good day
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