A Russian General Staff journal offers an unusually detailed account of how the Aerospace Forces organise stand-off strikes, coordinate drones and protect helicopters from an evolving threat.
Excellent analysis, particularly because it treats the Russian article as institutional evidence rather than assuming that a single publication constitutes doctrine.
I might interpret one point slightly differently. What is emerging here may be more than simply avoiding Ukrainian air defences rather than suppressing them. It looks increasingly like an attempt to redefine what “access” to contested airspace means.
If reconnaissance and designation can be pushed forward to UAVs, while manned aircraft remain outside engagement zones and deliver stand-off weapons into them, the VKS can generate effects inside airspace it does not physically control.
In that sense, the adaptation is architectural: risk, sensing, designation and weapons delivery are being distributed across different layers of the force.
Air superiority may remain contested while functional access is still created.
Look at the maths of this war: Breaking news: The Rusian War System collaps is closing in fast:!! The overall Russian Ssystematic Collapse Index (RSCI) has climbed 4,2 % in one week to a critical 83.6%. The machine continues to operate, but it is doing so strictly by depleting its non-renewable strategic buffers and enforcing severe domestic rationing. Supported by a structural overmatch of 3.6x Drohne ratio UKR / RUS, the mathematical framework proves that the adversary is running on an end-date timeline. The system has entered an irreversible slide toward its 100% stop-condition. Check it out!
Excellent analysis, particularly because it treats the Russian article as institutional evidence rather than assuming that a single publication constitutes doctrine.
I might interpret one point slightly differently. What is emerging here may be more than simply avoiding Ukrainian air defences rather than suppressing them. It looks increasingly like an attempt to redefine what “access” to contested airspace means.
If reconnaissance and designation can be pushed forward to UAVs, while manned aircraft remain outside engagement zones and deliver stand-off weapons into them, the VKS can generate effects inside airspace it does not physically control.
In that sense, the adaptation is architectural: risk, sensing, designation and weapons delivery are being distributed across different layers of the force.
Air superiority may remain contested while functional access is still created.
Thank you @OSAMAH ALMOKDAD for your comment and adding your view.
Interesting article, points to the Russians having their own lessons learned.
Staff studies are good because it collects and acts on data also.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Exceedingly interesting reading and certainly filled in a few black spots in my knowledge. Appreciated, good work 👍
Thank you!
Look at the maths of this war: Breaking news: The Rusian War System collaps is closing in fast:!! The overall Russian Ssystematic Collapse Index (RSCI) has climbed 4,2 % in one week to a critical 83.6%. The machine continues to operate, but it is doing so strictly by depleting its non-renewable strategic buffers and enforcing severe domestic rationing. Supported by a structural overmatch of 3.6x Drohne ratio UKR / RUS, the mathematical framework proves that the adversary is running on an end-date timeline. The system has entered an irreversible slide toward its 100% stop-condition. Check it out!
An interesting dossier thanks!!!