{"id":128301,"date":"2024-11-21T05:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128301"},"modified":"2024-11-21T05:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:47:48","slug":"ukrainian-bombers-fire-10-storm-shadow-missiles-at-russian-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128301","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Bombers Fire 10 Storm Shadow Missiles At Russian Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-4\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">A Ukrainian Su-24 launches Storm Shadows.<\/p>\n<p><small class=\"color-body light-text\">Ukrainian air force capture<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, <em>The New York Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/17\/us\/politics\/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/17\/us\/politics\/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/17\/us\/politics\/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html\" aria-label=\"broke the news\">broke the news<\/a> that U.S. President Joe Biden had authorized Ukraine to fire American-made long-range missiles at targets inside Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/12436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/12436\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/12436\" aria-label=\"vowed\">vowed<\/a> that the missiles would \u201cspeak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"top\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-top\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hours later, a Ukrainian army battery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/11\/19\/missiles-will-speak-for-themselves-zelensky-said-hours-later-us-made-rockets-with-6000-submunitions-streaked-toward-russia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/11\/19\/missiles-will-speak-for-themselves-zelensky-said-hours-later-us-made-rockets-with-6000-submunitions-streaked-toward-russia\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/11\/19\/missiles-will-speak-for-themselves-zelensky-said-hours-later-us-made-rockets-with-6000-submunitions-streaked-toward-russia\/\" aria-label=\"launched\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> eight 3,700-pound Army Tactical Missile System rockets\u2014each packing up to a thousand grenade-powered submunitions\u2014at a sprawling Russian ammunition arsenal in Karachev, a city in Bryansk Oblast 60 miles north of the Russia-Ukraine border.<\/p>\n<p>The early-morning strike, which left the arsenal in flames, was just the beginning of what could be a powerful campaign of deep strikes aimed at Russian forces and their command and supply infrastructure in and around Kursk Oblast in western Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Following Biden\u2019s lead, the governments of the United Kingdom and France also authorized Ukraine to fire British and French munitions at Russia. On Wednesday morning, Ukrainian air force bombers reportedly flung 10 Storm Shadow cruise missiles at a target in Maryino, a town in Kursk 25 miles from the border.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what the Ukrainians were aiming at with the 2,900-pound cruise missiles is unclear. But 10 Storm Shadows is a <em>lot <\/em>of Storm Shadows. The Ukrainian air force <a href=\"https:\/\/daxe.substack.com\/p\/ukrainian-bombers-drop-storm-shadow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/daxe.substack.com\/p\/ukrainian-bombers-drop-storm-shadow\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/daxe.substack.com\/p\/ukrainian-bombers-drop-storm-shadow\" aria-label=\"usually fires\">usually fires<\/a> the missiles from low-flying Sukhoi Su-24 supersonic bombers in pairs.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the attack points to an extremely high value\u2014likely fortified\u2014target. British firm BAE Systems specifically developed the Storm Shadow\u2019s 880-pound Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented Charge warhead for destroying hardened structures such as underground bunkers.<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-topx-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not for no reason that, when the Ukrainians targeted a Russian navy submarine in a drydock in occupied Crimea in September 2023, they opted to fire at least one Storm Shadow.<\/p>\n<p>According to one Russian blogger, Wednesday\u2019s target was a command post where Russian\u2014and potentially North Korean\u2014officers directed the 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops attacking the 250-square-mile salient that 20,000 or more Ukrainian troops hold in Kursk. The devastating strike on officers and their staffs \u201cresembles an execution of the defenseless,\u201d the blogger <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wartranslated\/status\/1859301144641798214\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wartranslated\/status\/1859301144641798214\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/x.com\/wartranslated\/status\/1859301144641798214\" aria-label=\"moaned\">moaned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strike may have involved a record five Ukrainian Su-24 bombers, each clutching a pair of the precision-guided missiles. Assisted by foreign experts, the Ukrainian air force modified many of its ex-Soviet Su-24s\u2014dozens of which might still be in service, despite heavy losses\u2014to launch Storm Shadows and similar French-made SCALP-EGs.<\/p>\n<p>Launching Storm Shadows, SCALP-EGs and (soon) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/09\/07\/ukraine-has-invented-its-own-precision-glide-bomb-it-could-become-a-key-weapon-for-strikes-on-targets-in-russia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/09\/07\/ukraine-has-invented-its-own-precision-glide-bomb-it-could-become-a-key-weapon-for-strikes-on-targets-in-russia\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/09\/07\/ukraine-has-invented-its-own-precision-glide-bomb-it-could-become-a-key-weapon-for-strikes-on-targets-in-russia\/\" aria-label=\"Ukrainian-made rocket bombs\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian-made rocket bombs<\/a> has become the primary mission of the Ukrainian air force\u2019s sole Su-24 unit, the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade based in western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>When Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022, the brigade\u2019s crews were still dropping unguided \u201cdumb\u201d bombs. \u201cNow aviators are focused on the use of Western high-precision weapons,\u201d Ukrainian correspondent Yuri Ignat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=8713778205310861&amp;id=100000363042511&amp;rdid=kM748qHZbmAizMzw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=8713778205310861&amp;id=100000363042511&amp;rdid=kM748qHZbmAizMzw\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=8713778205310861&amp;id=100000363042511&amp;rdid=kM748qHZbmAizMzw\" aria-label=\"reported\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSerious strategic tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firing a cruise missile at an enemy from 190 miles away is safer than dropping a dumb bomb from directly overhead. But that doesn\u2019t mean the missile strike is actually safe. \u201cOften a Ukrainian pilot works on targets when several enemy missiles are already flying at him,\u201d Ignat wrote.<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-topx-2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The risky strikes are worth it. Ukraine builds large numbers of locally developed deep-strike weapons, including rockets, drones and glide bombs, but few of them possess the penetrating power of a Storm Shadow. The British missile is just the thing to burst a buried command bunker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Follow me on\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/daxe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<span>Check out\u00a0<\/span>my\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/?sh=4e4aed31cc0c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0some of my other work\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Boring-Bored-Scared-Worlds\/dp\/0451230116\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<span>Send me a secure\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/tips\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tip<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2024\/11\/20\/ukrainian-bombers-fire-10-bunker-busting-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-at-russian-commanders\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian Su-24 launches Storm Shadows. 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