Another A-50 Was Shot Down
Plane crashed at Kanevsky district of Krasnodar Region(Kuban) pic.twitter.com/AEqBHO2PcC
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Russia is claiming friendly fire.
A-50 has a flight crew of five, supplemented by 10 specialists who operate a host of sensors, radios, and datalinks to coordinate air and ground forces in response to what its sensors can see. The A-50s play important supporting roles. They help to detect incoming Ukrainian missile raids and also relay radio signals from front-line forces to their headquarters, which might be hundreds of miles away.
Another 15 specialised forces dead.
Russia only had 9 of these, now 7 thanks to the 2 destroyed. Between these two losses, that's $600m+ down the drain.
What a disaster for Russia's air-force the past 2 weeks, 7 jets and an A-50.
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