tflash Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 I read somewhere Su-27 aircraft participated in the battle of Tshinkvali. Does anyone know whether they also did ground attack? And what would have been their payload? Did they had also the Sorbtsya ECM pods? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sniffer Posted April 11, 2010 Posted April 11, 2010 Over Tskhinvali shows fighter but not confirmed that was Fulcrum or Flanker. Don't know what about payload. Georgia probably wants to use their Su-25's and it was blocked by showing up the fighter. They stepped back with deploying planes when they saw armoured (I bet strictly A2A missiles) two-engines aircraft... We can say the role of this fighter was CAP over Georgia and eliminate everything what take-off to secure Russian bombers and CAS planes... That's all what I know about it... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Vekkinho Posted April 11, 2010 Posted April 11, 2010 Fighters during August '08 war? U sure? TFlash, do you have any links to such texts? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
tflash Posted April 11, 2010 Author Posted April 11, 2010 No, I have no sources that is why I ask. It is mentioned on two Wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tskhinvali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27 And also a mention here: http://www.defencetalk.com/russian-su-27-flights-suspended-crash-23740/ Again repeated in this overview article: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d4_1218246365 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
159th_Viper Posted April 11, 2010 Posted April 11, 2010 Couple more links: http://www.allworldwars.com/Battle%20for%20the%20South%20Ossetia%20August%202008.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_War http://lenta.ru/articles/2008/08/08/forces/ Novice or Veteran looking for an alternative MP career? Click me to commence your Journey of Pillage and Plunder! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] '....And when I get to Heaven, to St Peter I will tell.... One more Soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell......'
sniffer Posted April 11, 2010 Posted April 11, 2010 Vex... You should handle it: Aviation losses in 5-day war 2 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
tflash Posted April 12, 2010 Author Posted April 12, 2010 Vex... You should handle it: Aviation losses in 5-day war Very valuable link! Many thanks (and to google translate also, of course!) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Vekkinho Posted April 12, 2010 Posted April 12, 2010 Vex... You should handle it: Aviation losses in 5-day war Yeah, very nice link...you sniffed it out again! :thumbup: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sniffer Posted April 12, 2010 Posted April 12, 2010 Got better link (more reliable source) but can't find now... give me some time to find. But I don't remember if they mentioned about fighters... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sniffer Posted April 12, 2010 Posted April 12, 2010 Catch this: Tanks of August (russian language) 144 pages about war. 109-117 are about use of Russian VVS. Very interesting read. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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