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Russia’s Newest Su-57 Fighters Failed to Stop Ukrainian Drones From Reaching Its Largest Oil Refinery (united24media.com)
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Let me repeat it for the people in the back - You cannot bullshit air defense like russia is.

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[–] pluggerslugs@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

So, they didn't detect anything until the drones were almost there and scrambled to respond with the only thing around - a shiny new Su-57 being kept safely away from combat?

TBH these kinds of small, relatively slow moving and low flying targets are a terrible match for jet fighters so it's not a surprise they didn't stop most of the drones. I think we'd see other modern fighters struggle against them, too, especially without radar support from the AA batteries they're using to protect Moscow, Kerch, and Valdai.