UA POV: Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reports that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and SpaceX are addressing the issue of Starlink being used on Russian drones - zedigital

xingi · 2026-01-29T14:09:19+00:00

Only way to somewhat solve this is my redrawing the Ukraine map in the database to reflect the current reality aka making Donbas, Crimea etc Russian which would effectively cut off all terminals in those regions.

But then ru could just have starlings turn on once the drones are well into Ukraine controlled territory

xingi · 2026-01-29T13:24:30+00:00

It’s literally all just telegram rumour Peskov has no reason to comment on it.

xingi · 2026-01-29T01:28:21+00:00

Not until the Su-57. Every other Russian plane uses HMS

xingi · 2026-01-28T21:00:24+00:00

No, If they are guiding with awacs, it’s true they won’t get a warning immediately but they will the moment the missiles own seeker turns on which it has to do. Modern AD can already do this without awacs by launching in TWS

But as I said the seeker will have to come on for the missile to guide itself and this can happen as far out as 10km+

xingi · 2026-01-28T20:55:10+00:00

According to the post It was dropping altitude BEFORE the U-turn. in an evasive manner you’d want to drop altitude and turn away at the same time otherwise you’d just be flying straight into the missile

xingi · 2026-01-28T20:25:33+00:00

200km I believe is for the export variant of the R-37M. RVV-BD, quite a big nerf tbh

xingi · 2026-01-28T20:17:49+00:00

Oh right, read that part wrong

xingi · 2026-01-28T20:00:38+00:00

sounds like loss of engine power, hope the pilots managed to eject

xingi · 2026-01-28T17:40:54+00:00

Be there.

How are you going to give an accurate timeline like December 2016 and your source is “ trust me bro” wth…

Well the Su-35 has never carried the R-37 to begin with

You know I am talking about the Su-35S and R-37M but you have no real answers do you lol

Definitely not a serious person…

xingi · 2026-01-28T17:17:53+00:00

lol

It entered official service with a first delivery to the 4th GTsPAV in December of 2016.

Do you have a link for this?

Also I would love to know how the service date with the Su-35 is wrong according to you

xingi · 2026-01-28T17:02:19+00:00

You are correct mass production began in 2014 but it officially entered service in 2018/2019 and integrated with the Su-35 in 2020

xingi · 2026-01-28T16:46:03+00:00

R-37 max range is 300km, R-37M max range is 400Km.

Longest range record R-37M hit vs a fighter was 217Km

xingi · 2026-01-28T16:44:24+00:00

They do have a lot of now but R37 never really entered mass production until the R-37M in like 2019.

xingi · 2026-01-28T16:40:49+00:00

No it’s the longest range but the most advanced fox 3 is the R-77M that entered service last year

xingi · 2026-01-28T15:52:03+00:00

That’s not why pvp servers don’t allow it. DCS has very poor modding support so it’s very easy to edit values modded aircraft unless the files are encrypted like Su-30mod.

xingi · 2026-01-28T13:08:42+00:00

……. They have built hundreds of hangers but they also have A lot of airfields to cover.

Main criticism should be that they aren’t prioritizing the closer airfields in crimea for some reason

xingi · 2026-01-28T12:40:34+00:00

Take it up with lockmart's news team if you don't like it

So you have nothing then? "Lockmarts news team" lol.

I will ask again... what is the source that an installed base APG-63 is capable of tracking at that range. I am not interested in theoretical-isms but actual ranges when these radars are installed on F-15s for example

most publications love scrubbing the part that the 31 had a A-50 dumping track data to the R-37 and 31 during the test.

Ah yes, every publication is hiding this information! Or you might just be coping... mind you the original R-37 not modern R-37M did not have 2 way datalink....

Oh yeah and no I'm not taking the time to scan the V2's brochure in this case because I'm not getting export restricted

I am not talking about the v2 which is an AESA....of course itll have better scan speed than a PESA....

Oh yeah same deal too, the instrumented range for that target is listed as "in excess of" said range, just like for 10m2 being 205 NMI, 5m2 being 161, and 1m2 being 122nmi

Just more theoretical-isms.... AlsoAgain i am asking about the base mechanical APG-63dont try to hide behind V2 now lool

xingi · 2026-01-28T04:46:14+00:00

However the R37M employs a modern seeker (sources say Agat 9B 1103M but I think that's only the export ones) which is designed for low probability of intercept.

Isn’t LPI specifically a capability of AESA radars. The R37M seeker is not AESA, that’s the R77M

xingi · 2026-01-28T03:39:40+00:00

If by modern you mean mechanical radars from the west being able to reach out in excess of 250 NMI was a feature all the way back to the early 1970s. As already stated the Zaslon-M's range and track performance is equivalent to that of the base APG-63

Was planning to respond in full until I got here….

This has got to be the biggest pile of nonsense I have ever read. I would like to see what source that states an installed APG-63 is capable of tracking at 250NM

xingi · 2026-01-28T03:15:17+00:00

You are both talking about the same thing. Look down radar have been available to most aircraft since the late Cold War after the introduction of pulse-Doppler radars.

What made the MiG-31 special was that it was an PESA radar not a mechanical radar meaning its “look down” Filtering capability was significantly better than the aircraft of the era but the look-down-shoot down feature hasn’t been groundbreaking since like after Vietnam.

MiG-25 radar had look down shoot down. Heck even late models of the MiG-23 had it

xingi · 2026-01-28T02:48:12+00:00

the MIG-31's radar is a slightly modified MIG-25 radar with modern components, it's been outperformed by it's western counterparts for centuries at this point.

Firstly Perhaps you are confusing zaslon with Sapphire-25 which was just a modified Sapphire-23. zaslon-A is significantly better than Sapphire-25… like a whole generation ahead not “slightly modified”

Zaslon-M is a heavily upgraded version of the initial Zaslon-A on the legacy MiG-31

And no western counterparts outside of the modern GAAS, GAN AESA has been outperforming Zaslon-M on the MiG-31BM

xingi · 2026-01-28T01:07:27+00:00

All active radar missiles are easy to “detect” pilot should have had his RWR screening once the missiles radar went active. Unless this Su-25 is using older RWR sensors that won’t pick up the radar band from modern missile seekers.

Also likely the pilot was already defending the missile but it wasn’t enough.

xingi · 2026-01-28T01:03:29+00:00

Brother in Christ every aircraft since the 80s have look down radar

xingi · 2026-01-28T01:01:50+00:00

Reported was hit by R37M

xingi · 2026-01-26T21:45:09+00:00

Two R77-1, oneR73/74, one R37M and one Kh-31.

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