One of our calculations of the S-300PS air defense system (possibly of the 208th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade) shares its frag_list
The first three UAVs (first row from the top) are Russian “Forpost” UAVs.
That’s a lot of crewed aircraft
was
It’s been a while since I’ve seen any helicopters getting shot down. It doesn’t seem like Russia uses them as much as they did in the beginning.
I guess its hard to shoot them down as they fly low and do untargetted over borizon fire before running back woth tail between their legs. That goes for both sides, but i seen more helicopters lost when they were stationary
Likely lots of factors.
- so many shot down there are fewer to fly
- sanctions hurting repair channels meaning they fly fewer hours to reduce maintenance demands
- longer range Ukrainian missiles exceed the useful operational range of helicopters so to use them they’d have to station them inside Ukrainian missile range
- Lack of trained pilots? We know that Russian army trainers were put to the front lines (and liquidated), it wouldn’t surprised me if this was also done to helicopter trainers so now that they are dead the pipeline for new pilots is drastically reduced.
Not only longer range but also highly mobile air defense supplied by NATO countries specially designed to take on helicopters.
So believable!
