Thread 63807019

>Russia has transferred two Tu-160 heavy strategic bombers (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) to the remote Anadyr air base, which can be seen in satellite images.
>Russia may betrying to hide its valuable bombers from possible attacks by Ukrainian drones. This could be an effective place to hide these aircraft, because the peculiarity of the Anadyr airbase is that a truck with drones cannot reach it due to the lack of an access road.
>It is noted that recently, Russians have begun to more actively use this type of aircraft to strike Ukraine. In particular, from 2023 to the beginning of May of this year, only two cases were known when Russian strategic Tu-160 bombers were involved in carrying out attacks on Ukraine. At the same time, since the end of May of this year, the Russians have already taken their Tu-160s into the air twice to carry out strikes on Ukraine, in particular on May 25 and June 6 of this year.
Normally I'd suggest this is from US/Russia tension but that seems unlikely given the current administration. Of course I have to ask: strategic/tactical implications?

Relevant satellite photographs

>>63807019 (OP)
Basically the only way they can get some more is by asking Ukraine to build some for them.

>>63807019 (OP)
Russia believes it cannot prevent or defend against another attack on its strategic bomber force utilizing drones hidden in shipping trucks through means other than making them physically inaccessible.

>>63807019 (OP)
No chance of any containers getting all the way out there. No siree.

>>63807022
looks like Mars

>>63807019 (OP)
>6750km
imagine stress on these planes

>>63807058
Pic one, any one.
I've seen some dodgy looking containers on UK roads in the past. The dodgiest ones normally have armed police with them.

>>63807058
>GRU stages an amphibious invasion of Russia involving container ships and a few thousand Argies very confused about where they are

>>63807019 (OP)
Increased strain on air cargo operations to transport all equipment and spares to an area with no land based transport routes. The new permanent road should be built by 2042 if they keep to schedule.

Ironically the airport has a load of shipping containers parked just east of the runway, in an area of what looks like sheds.

The Ukrainian SBU has the opportunity to do some hilarious shit here.

>>63807080
Every single pilot, as it's taking off from some hell hole in Бpянcк knows it's crew is followed after their mission. When they walk out of their soviet block. Sometimes they are blown to pieces.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/moscow-explosion-igor-kirillov-bomb-electric-scooter-russia-b1200398.html

>>63807019 (OP)
I don’t buy it, I would inside this is just shit getting shuffled around while they try to fill in the gaps they just had smashed into their forces. I would goes they’d want their more workhorse models near the front and have their more flash shit on the pacific coast to shadow box with the burgers

>>63807140
Wait, either Google maps has updated super fast, or those two Tu-160 live there already.

>>63807019 (OP)
There have been Tu-160s in Ugolny for years.

>>63807141
Cirque de Budanov is currently being prepped for a long journey across Siberia.

>>63807902
The anchorage of the alaskan crab fleet maybe.

>>63807051
can any country defend against such an attack?

>>63807902
>there will be TU-160s over Anchorage.
I've been wondering how long it would be until we got another Victor Belenko

>>63807902
Russia couldn't even put a TU-160 over Kiev, despite all the red lines crossed. Try it bitch.

This is in June. Wait until they see what Winter is like.

>>63808163
>temps drop to average -15F
>drone batteries freeze
>bombers safe
Hohols utterly, irrecoverably and completely btfo

>>63807019 (OP)
Alaskans have the chance to do some real funny shit right now.

>>63807902
Unironically I think just the citizens of Alaska and whatever firearms they have could win a no nukes land war against Russia which is why they need the Tu-160s because they'd lose without them.

>>63808135
>I've been wondering how long it would be until we got another Victor Belenko
God please make this happen because it would be funny. Also BTW Belenko's book is fantastic. The guy was an American trapped in a Russian's body.

>>63807140
>in an area of what looks like sheds
Those ain't sheds, that's the 4th Guards Tank Division

>>63807019 (OP)
>betrying to hide
No. They are preparing to attack Wrangle Island. Fucking commies.

>>63808195
I hope they use a trawler from Deadliest Catch.

>>63807019 (OP)
All that greentext and you failed to provide the source. C'mon newfag.

>>63808089
Great, now crab leg night at the indian casino will go up again!

>>63807019 (OP)
No road access? No problem the base is only 3 km from the sea. Send in a naval drone mothership that deploys regular dones.

Does Russia only have two operational Blackjacks?

>>63809499
Ukraine’s drone mothership would get hijacked by somalian pirates lol

>>63808128
>can any country defend against such an attack?
during actual wartime maybe but Putin specifically is struggling not to go all the way because thats admitting he lost

>>63808307
After Kum No Sok's I gotta read this. Your copy looks like it has some years.

>>63808337
>that's no favela....it's an armored tank division

>>63809600
>After Kum No Sok's
How was it? Haven't read that yet. Belenko is kind of a legend. I was really sad to hear he died a year ago. There used to be an amateur interview online with him in a bar in the 2000s that was hilarious. Dude was drunk and shitting on communists. But I can't find it now.

>>63810822
Part history book, part memoir. It was a good insight into better korea. with war at the forefront.

Belenko sounds like a cool dude. Too bad influential cold war era people are half way gone by now.

>>63808176

> Tires freeze to wings Can't get them off to fly.

>>63808128
>can any country defend against such an attack?
Sure, pretty easily? Cold war measures would have been quite effective actually. Back then worries about sabotage and first strikes were taken extremely seriously, even if a different form of sabotage. The basic counter measures are shelters, dispersal, mass production, and physical base security/isolation (and for bases where that's impossible don't park stuff, or at least not much).

All that costs money though, that's the main thing. Cold war over, budgets shrank, recruitment went down. It's a lot cheaper to consolidate, and to consolidate at bases that are more convenient for your people too. If the weather doesn't require it, it's cheaper to not bother with heavy shelters for everything. On top of all that it was actively written into some of the arms control stuff, so that advanced countries could monitor each others stuff via satellite.

Drones are new to some extent sure in that it puts the capabilities into more hands more cheaply, but the basic issue of attacking shit on the ground before it can go airborne at all is about as old as military aircraft usage. It's not a radical mystery, it's just not cheap.

I made a scenario on sea power a few months ago where the goal was to bomb Anadyr.

>>63808363
Imagine the Hillstrands managing to fuck up all these bombers, or, more fitting to their pirate aura, take them as prizes.

>>63807114
Just tell 'em its the Anti-Malvinas and that there's a tunnel into Stanley somewhere under the airbase, they'll be fine.

Good news everyone!

>>63807019 (OP)
Alaska could to the funniest thing right now.

Shit just got real

its joever
rip alaska, i hardly knew ye

>>63807050
Sorry fren but Russia is already flying several domestically built new Tu-160M aircraft.

>>63820698
Haven't they made single digit amounts in the last decade or two

>>63820698
Kek, how many can even fly at a moments notice. I doubt they have been adequately upgraded since the end of the cold war. Knowing Russia, the M series upgrades could just be leftover plans that were deemed too expensive due to the end of the cold war.

Clearly, Russia is scared of losing the few bombers they have left. It is like lostech to them.

>>63807019 (OP)
Probably scared of them getting hit

>>63807019 (OP)
I assume that the planes need extensive maintenance, or are too important to other strategic plans to risk them being lost in another strike. if they need maintenance, the move makes sense, as this would be ones of the safer places for it to be done, since you can't exactly move it while you're taking it apart. if it's there because it's needed for another strategic use, the Tu-160 might be more endangered than previously thought, as this would be willingly giving up use of war materiel to avoid it's potential loss, so that you can potentially still use it in the future... it does at least indicate some more forward thinking on the air force's part compared to the army seemingly thinking that they will always have more of basically anything they need forever.

>>63820943
How many of those are 100% made and not frankensteined from old Soviet ones with minor replacements?

>>63808376
Think of the prices at the Range Clubhouse! They might charge!

>>63817842
>a fucking shark is gnawing at the hull
shits tough in the arctic

>>63807902
>sells Alaska to the United States for $7 million
>seethes hard when it turns out the land is more valuable beyond sea otter furs

>>63808337
>that's the 4th Guards Tank Division
Depressing shit

>>63810822
Not the one you're thinking of, but this is another good one with him from the 90s.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010111004300/http://fullcontext.org/people/belenko.htm
>bought a box of maxi-pads at the supermarket because he didn't know what they were, assumed it was for kitchen cleaning