I wish I had been further south so I could have seen it. I am in Kramatorsk, but on the 19th of July (2024), I was in Костянтинівка. Also, I visited a volunteer unit when I was in Kharkiv between July 11, 2024 and July 18th. I posted a video of this site and conversations with staff. More to come. See if you recognize the voice of the woman talking in this video to the voice in the one I posted. The same voice?
Advancing less than five miles in 7 months is not what i would call 'success', especially when you emember that thouands of 0rc carcaSSes and hundreds of 0rc-roasters are left littering the ground. . .
if you dont care about your soilders lives it can be called a succes - they closed the gap to the "gate to donbass" and its supply road they have been closing in to the supply road on wuhledar so yea they might be slow but dont underestimate what they might achieve over time and the ripple effects that might have
@@hannesbaum9318 Russia doesn't have the time though. As each day goes by the effects of the sanctions tighten a little more, the economy gets weaker, Russia gets poorer and civil unrest grows. Not to forgetting the high attrition rate of both troops and equipment. Russia's chances of success lessen each day, not grow, irrespective of them taking a few fields and the odd town here and there.
@@cantiaci idk where u get all that info from but The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Russia to grow 3.2% this year, significantly more than the UK, France and Germany. Just sayin. They are losing many soldiers and equipment tho.
I sped up the footage to get a better idea of wtf we're looking at, and if this is a legit video of a Su-25 shootdown, my best guess is that this shows the aircraft immediately after being hit and breaking apart filmed from very far away. It's only like a second of footage slowed way down
That's what the narrator says: "They [the aircraft and the missile] meet, the smoke*, ... the plane is falling and the ejection of the pilot is performed. Now the parachute opens, there it is." * Subs read: "The smoke is gone", this is a bad xlation of rus. "Пошёл дым" --- "The smoke is emitting".
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In the 30s the Italians recorded phenomenal successes with their open cockpit, canvas covered biplanes against the Ethiopians... who were armed with swords, spears, slingshots and bows. The same Italians got their asses served on a plate when going against the Ozzies and the Kiwis. As Einstein said: "Gary, it's all relative."
Lets see what allies supply with the f16's, i hope enough that they can at least protect themselves , with much better radar and missiles that once fired will take out their target every time. If they do not have the best radar and missiles, then the west is just sending them to be destroyed. But i suspect behind the scenes Ukraine is already preparing their own upgrades to the radars and possibly to any missiles they receive, remember how much they improved the himars they received and how they improved the patriot system so much compared to what America manufacture, hitting targets that the manufacturers said were impossible to hit with the system.. Ukraine is in a do-or-die situation and nothing will stop them, even rumours of them developing a much, much cheaper patriot system and a much cheaper and more effective HIMARS system ready for use next year, hopefully. While Ukraine is abiding by the agreements not to use western weapons in certain areas, they are using the knowledge they have gained about all western systems to create their own and do so cheaper and better than the original. Remember the uk during ww2, they were able to build flying fortresses fast, like one every day, and multiple spitfires were built every day. I am sure the uk is helping Ukraine develop their own weapons and helping them with organising mass manufacturing of them. Maybe they can't build aircraft fast, but ammunition and drones and armoured vehicles seem to be churned out very fast right now.
To be fair, the su-25 is actually a pretty good CAS attack plane. It's had double the speed of A-10, and is capable of tanking some damage. Of course now, when AA systems are more advanced, it doesn't look that hot, but the same goes for all other CAS planes out there. That's why CAS role is now filled by multirole fighters, which have way higher speed, and better defenses. For example, some new F-16 are getting new radar, which can jam other radars, which can massively improves capability to strike without being targeted by AA.
The SU-25 is a substantially better attack aircraft than the A-10. The SU-25 is still quite effective, where the A-10 has been obsolete for 35. We had 70 of them hit by ground fire in Desert Storm. 70! We had to pull them out of the daily rotation. The only reason the A-10 still exists is because several Senators use it as a jobs program, just like NC Senators just did forcing the Air Force to keep a squadron of worn out F-15Es so they can keep those 500 maintenance troops paying rent & buying used cars.
@@chugachuga9242 Both planes scored hundreds of kills during their service, so your argument about k/d is irrelevant. If you think a slow A-10 would do better in modern combat like in Ukraine, when facing modern anti-air systems and flying without having air superiority, then you're delusional.
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@@faontastik $11 million is correct, which seems incredibly cheap for a full fledged fighter yet. Literally cheaper then a cruise missile. in RU currency it would be 966 Million Rubles.
@@Shokkwavez It's basically the Russian counterpart to the A-10. it's a ground support/attack aircraft dating back to the late 70's, it's not like it's a high tech modern air superiority fighter.
To me this video shows the aircraft itself and seems to be the guy saying the pilot ejects in the clip. At 0:54 I can make out the shape of an Su-25 clearly enough to identify it, there is clearly something wrong with it though and there seems to be something coming out of the center of the aircraft, probably smoke, as well as possibly having an engine on fire? It's lightest and a different shade where the engines are
To my eye, it appears to be that the big blotch is the Su-25 and the faint blotch above it is the pilot's parachute. In some frames, you can make out the wings and tail.
I play the frog-foot in DCS. It's not as powerful as the A10, even in a simulator! It's the 1980's technology that never got upgraded. Unlike the A10 which is now the A10-C.
In reality, the SU-25 is a substantially more effective attack aircraft. The A-10 is too slow to get to the fight, and doesn't have enough legs to stay once it gets there. The F-16s are so much more effective providing CAS. Not to mention, the A-10's gun can't penetrate any newer Russian tank (T-72 & newer) from the side or rear. That's if it could hit the tank. The jet has been obsolete since 70 got hit by ground fire in Desert Storm.
@@donwyoming1936 You sound like an old soviet lover! Do you miss the old times? It will never come back. The role of the A10 is close ground support. It doesn't need to be fast. There is the F16 for that. It's not the plane, it's the delivery of firepower from afar. Learn about the number and variants of missiles and bombs the A-10 can carry. Fire and forget missiles that no tank can resist.
Appears it may actually be the plane, and as the person taking it says, the pilot is then ejecting from it at one point, but it appears that the ejection may have failed whereby the chute deployed but the ejection seat did not fully get clear of the aircraft and is then acting as a descent chute for the doomed craft.
It wouldn't have just been the parachute, I think you'll find it was the broken up aircraft withought the wings and tail section and then the pilot ejected late on
This was also my question and I believe to be able to identify the form of the wing, so yes, I will say, most likely a Su25 (according form of wings, shape of the overal plane). And I am pretty sure, we see the plane (I think, I can identify someting yellow in this grey dot, so it is on fire) tumbling without power like a leave from the sky and additional the small dot above, the pilot after ejection and later the white parachute. So the 1000 $ question, what the hell is the Su25 doing so high above the ground? Ok, as we can not see the ground, it is possibly much lower as we believe, so perhaps not several thousands but only 200 or 300 m above the ground, but this is by far to high to survive in this war. Both sites have a high amount of AA ground based systems, starting with manpads to BUK, all the medium range Soviet based systems and also S300 and Patriot systems on Ukrainian site. which partly also cover frontline parts in the northeast, south and east. So flying high near to the frontline is often just an one way ticket, why they have done it? As the pilot seems to have ejected, likely it was something small so a Manpad or one of the smaller Soviet time systems.
Right now we are at the infancy of drone technology, and they have been shown to be effective against both Russians and Americans. I cannot imagine how deadly they will become in the next few years, but whatever capabilities they get they are cheap and easy to manufacture in large numbers negating the massive spending by America on its military, already two American warships were seriously damaged and possibly out of service for a few years, if America cannot stop the first iteration of drones then how are they going to cope with what is coming.
well it can't be replaced by new one, but like Ukraine and like with SU-24, with still over 400 active today and with 577 active in 2010, also a production of over 1000, Ukraine and Russian still have a lot of airframes that can been made airworthy again, just like Ukraine had a SU-24 numbers back up to 14 after last loss, but is a slow work and hard work. also unlike the US, with the Arizona dry heat, Russian goes the other way on the thermometer down to the cold of the tundra.
Given the video quality, I think this may actually be a recon drone that was hit. Some of the recon drones carry parachutes to land softly, so this may well be one of those.
Well the Ukrainians at least show something. Of course for the Russians to document the shooting down of hundreds of thousands of F16s, Storm Shadow, SCALP, drones, Patriot, etc. would be challenging, but at least they could try
Leaving less for tomorrow... oh wait, wrong channel :D
Doubtful a missile strike. The pilot just spotted a large cache of toilets going into a new building being built.
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And they keep falling
I wish I had been further south so I could have seen it. I am in Kramatorsk, but on the 19th of July (2024), I was in Костянтинівка. Also, I visited a volunteer unit when I was in Kharkiv between July 11, 2024 and July 18th. I posted a video of this site and conversations with staff. More to come. See if you recognize the voice of the woman talking in this video to the voice in the one I posted. The same voice?
cool, what brings you to Ukraine? Aid worker, or military?
Advancing less than five miles in 7 months is not what i would call 'success', especially when you emember that thouands of 0rc carcaSSes and hundreds of 0rc-roasters are left littering the ground. . .
You forgot the call center tourists.
if you dont care about your soilders lives it can be called a succes - they closed the gap to the "gate to donbass" and its supply road
they have been closing in to the supply road on wuhledar
so yea they might be slow but dont underestimate what they might achieve over time and the ripple effects that might have
@@hannesbaum9318Sadly true, small gains, but gains nevertheless. Of course troops are considered disposable.
@@hannesbaum9318 Russia doesn't have the time though. As each day goes by the effects of the sanctions tighten a little more, the economy gets weaker, Russia gets poorer and civil unrest grows. Not to forgetting the high attrition rate of both troops and equipment. Russia's chances of success lessen each day, not grow, irrespective of them taking a few fields and the odd town here and there.
@@cantiaci idk where u get all that info from but The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Russia to grow 3.2% this year, significantly more than the UK, France and Germany. Just sayin. They are losing many soldiers and equipment tho.
object falling from the sky .... yup, that sounds like the russian airforce.
I sped up the footage to get a better idea of wtf we're looking at, and if this is a legit video of a Su-25 shootdown, my best guess is that this shows the aircraft immediately after being hit and breaking apart filmed from very far away. It's only like a second of footage slowed way down
That's what the narrator says: "They [the aircraft and the missile] meet, the smoke*, ... the plane is falling and the ejection of the pilot is performed. Now the parachute opens, there it is."
* Subs read: "The smoke is gone", this is a bad xlation of rus. "Пошёл дым" --- "The smoke is emitting".
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Isn't this what the Russians call `a successful ground attack aircraft?` 🙂
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In the 30s the Italians recorded phenomenal successes with their open cockpit, canvas covered biplanes against the Ethiopians... who were armed with swords, spears, slingshots and bows.
The same Italians got their asses served on a plate when going against the Ozzies and the Kiwis.
As Einstein said: "Gary, it's all relative."
Lets see what allies supply with the f16's, i hope enough that they can at least protect themselves , with much better radar and missiles that once fired will take out their target every time.
If they do not have the best radar and missiles, then the west is just sending them to be destroyed. But i suspect behind the scenes Ukraine is already preparing their own upgrades to the radars and possibly to any missiles they receive, remember how much they improved the himars they received and how they improved the patriot system so much compared to what America manufacture, hitting targets that the manufacturers said were impossible to hit with the system..
Ukraine is in a do-or-die situation and nothing will stop them, even rumours of them developing a much, much cheaper patriot system and a much cheaper and more effective HIMARS system ready for use next year, hopefully.
While Ukraine is abiding by the agreements not to use western weapons in certain areas, they are using the knowledge they have gained about all western systems to create their own and do so cheaper and better than the original.
Remember the uk during ww2, they were able to build flying fortresses fast, like one every day, and multiple spitfires were built every day. I am sure the uk is helping Ukraine develop their own weapons and helping them with organising mass manufacturing of them. Maybe they can't build aircraft fast, but ammunition and drones and armoured vehicles seem to be churned out very fast right now.
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0:10 "its not the best quality video"
meh, its not the best quality airplane either
To be fair, the su-25 is actually a pretty good CAS attack plane. It's had double the speed of A-10, and is capable of tanking some damage.
Of course now, when AA systems are more advanced, it doesn't look that hot, but the same goes for all other CAS planes out there.
That's why CAS role is now filled by multirole fighters, which have way higher speed, and better defenses.
For example, some new F-16 are getting new radar, which can jam other radars, which can massively improves capability to strike without being targeted by AA.
The SU-25 is a substantially better attack aircraft than the A-10. The SU-25 is still quite effective, where the A-10 has been obsolete for 35. We had 70 of them hit by ground fire in Desert Storm. 70! We had to pull them out of the daily rotation.
The only reason the A-10 still exists is because several Senators use it as a jobs program, just like NC Senators just did forcing the Air Force to keep a squadron of worn out F-15Es so they can keep those 500 maintenance troops paying rent & buying used cars.
Quick tell me how what the K/D of the A-10 is vs the SU-25.
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Both planes scored hundreds of kills during their service, so your argument about k/d is irrelevant.
If you think a slow A-10 would do better in modern combat like in Ukraine, when facing modern anti-air systems and flying without having air superiority, then you're delusional.
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SU25s cost $11Million. 😅
They'll save money not maintaining it and not paying the pilot anymore. Of course they'll claim he defected so his family wont get death benefits too.
Be carefull, you cannot compare $ and rubbles...
@@faontastik $11 million is correct, which seems incredibly cheap for a full fledged fighter yet. Literally cheaper then a cruise missile. in RU currency it would be 966 Million Rubles.
@@Shokkwavez It's basically the Russian counterpart to the A-10. it's a ground support/attack aircraft dating back to the late 70's, it's not like it's a high tech modern air superiority fighter.
@@soupfork2105 Thank you for explaining.
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"it's not the best quality video" understatement of the year, its potatocam vision!
Not Su's day.
To me this video shows the aircraft itself and seems to be the guy saying the pilot ejects in the clip. At 0:54 I can make out the shape of an Su-25 clearly enough to identify it, there is clearly something wrong with it though and there seems to be something coming out of the center of the aircraft, probably smoke, as well as possibly having an engine on fire? It's lightest and a different shade where the engines are
thanks, could be the case it is the aircraft and I got it wrong.
To my eye, it appears to be that the big blotch is the Su-25 and the faint blotch above it is the pilot's parachute. In some frames, you can make out the wings and tail.
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I play the frog-foot in DCS. It's not as powerful as the A10, even in a simulator!
It's the 1980's technology that never got upgraded. Unlike the A10 which is now the A10-C.
In reality, the SU-25 is a substantially more effective attack aircraft. The A-10 is too slow to get to the fight, and doesn't have enough legs to stay once it gets there. The F-16s are so much more effective providing CAS.
Not to mention, the A-10's gun can't penetrate any newer Russian tank (T-72 & newer) from the side or rear. That's if it could hit the tank. The jet has been obsolete since 70 got hit by ground fire in Desert Storm.
@@donwyoming1936 You sound like an old soviet lover! Do you miss the old times?
It will never come back.
The role of the A10 is close ground support. It doesn't need to be fast. There is the F16 for that. It's not the plane, it's the delivery of firepower from afar. Learn about the number and variants of missiles and bombs the A-10 can carry. Fire and forget missiles that no tank can resist.
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Appears it may actually be the plane, and as the person taking it says, the pilot is then ejecting from it at one point, but it appears that the ejection may have failed whereby the chute deployed but the ejection seat did not fully get clear of the aircraft and is then acting as a descent chute for the doomed craft.
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Any video of a Russian plane being shot down is PERFECT.
Can't see it, have to take your word for it.
Not saying it isn't but how can anyone tell whether it is?
It wouldn't have just been the parachute, I think you'll find it was the broken up aircraft withought the wings and tail section and then the pilot ejected late on
Engagement comment for yt to delete.
Soon Russia is going the same way.
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Always short videos Jack, enough 🙂
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I wonder what hit it ?
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not sure what was SU25 doing so high up?
Hiding.
@@willtricks9432 high up is not a good place to hide though😬
This was also my question and I believe to be able to identify the form of the wing, so yes, I will say, most likely a Su25 (according form of wings, shape of the overal plane). And I am pretty sure, we see the plane (I think, I can identify someting yellow in this grey dot, so it is on fire) tumbling without power like a leave from the sky and additional the small dot above, the pilot after ejection and later the white parachute.
So the 1000 $ question, what the hell is the Su25 doing so high above the ground? Ok, as we can not see the ground, it is possibly much lower as we believe, so perhaps not several thousands but only 200 or 300 m above the ground, but this is by far to high to survive in this war. Both sites have a high amount of AA ground based systems, starting with manpads to BUK, all the medium range Soviet based systems and also S300 and Patriot systems on Ukrainian site. which partly also cover frontline parts in the northeast, south and east. So flying high near to the frontline is often just an one way ticket, why they have done it? As the pilot seems to have ejected, likely it was something small so a Manpad or one of the smaller Soviet time systems.
Trying to stay out of range of MANPADS probably.
@@FacitOmniaVoluntas.Well, that worked out well for them 😂
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Let's see if this comment is scrubbed.
what comment?
We're back to 2004 camera phones
A zoomed-in video from a cheap phone's camera.
What was it hit by. Those planes are very rugged .
manpads have taken them down in the past.
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it happens.. the Frog Foot flies very close to the ground and the enemy has plenty of MANPADS . its a war.
Right now we are at the infancy of drone technology, and they have been shown to be effective against both Russians and Americans. I cannot imagine how deadly they will become in the next few years, but whatever capabilities they get they are cheap and easy to manufacture in large numbers negating the massive spending by America on its military, already two American warships were seriously damaged and possibly out of service for a few years, if America cannot stop the first iteration of drones then how are they going to cope with what is coming.
How did you get footage of the floater inside my eye? Lol
Anyone else hate red circles? The only two features in the clip are the circle and what is inside the circle.
Dont think its important l.
Let's face it. You could tell me that it was a flying saucer, those are typically low grain recordings, and I would have to believe it.
Hummm . . . Such's impeccable record versus the dismal record of comment doubters? Such a hard decision.
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well it can't be replaced by new one, but like Ukraine and like with SU-24, with still over 400 active today and with 577 active
in 2010, also a production of over 1000, Ukraine and Russian still have a lot of airframes that can been made airworthy again,
just like Ukraine had a SU-24 numbers back up to 14 after last loss, but is a slow work and hard work.
also unlike the US, with the Arizona dry heat, Russian goes the other way on the thermometer down to the cold of the tundra.
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Given the video quality, I think this may actually be a recon drone that was hit. Some of the recon drones carry parachutes to land softly, so this may well be one of those.
Ketapel Ukraina masih berfungsi.
I mean I'd like to think this is legit, but let's face it anybody could create such a video.
Wailed the copebot in denial.
Then show us Botnik, with a Potato and your fathers hat.
Well the Ukrainians at least show something. Of course for the Russians to document the shooting down of hundreds of thousands of F16s, Storm Shadow, SCALP, drones, Patriot, etc. would be challenging, but at least they could try
I am sure you love to think it was legit but your bosses might not like it !
@@bigotbiden Nah, I just prefer more evidence really.
Suchomimus ,how's the retreat going in the east ?
Just fine trading square inches for thousands of men is insane