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PETER LAYTON<\/a> |<\/p>\n

Say \u2018air superiority\u2019 and people instinctively think of highly manoeuvrable aircraft, silk-scarfed fighter pilots, the Battle of Britain and perhaps Top Gun. That is all somewhat last century though.\u00a0 Manned aircraft are no longer always essential to either gain air superiority or even exploit it, as Russian combat operations in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine demonstrate.\u00a0 Here a kind of air power different to our normal expectations is being employed.<\/p>\n

While Russia quickly seized Crimea in February 2014, the Donbas proved more problematic.\u00a0 Ukrainian land forces gradually recaptured lost territory supported by the Ukrainian air force. In mid-June though Russia pushed back, introducing various types of man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS \u2013 mainly SA-18) and radar-guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems (mainly SA-11).\u00a0 The MANPADS were used in Ukrainian territory principally by proxy forces while the radar-guided SAMs crossed the border occasionally, were employed and then quickly returned back to Russian territory. This shoot-and-scoot tactic seems to have shot down a high-flying An-26, a Mig-29, a Su-25 and an Su-24M together with Malaysian Airlines MH-17.<\/p>\n

Overall,\u00a0ten military helicopters<\/a>(five Mi-8 and five Mi-24) and eight military fixed wing aircraft (An-30B, An-26, Il-76, two MiG-29s, two Su-25s and an Su-24M)\u00a0were shot down<\/a>. Some 89 personnel were killed with the greatest loss of life being the\u00a0Il-76 shoot-down that killed 58<\/a>. By the end of August, Russia had gained control of the air over the battlefield almost solely through using SAMs, rendering the Ukrainian air force ineffective and allowing Russian land forces to freely manoeuvre<\/p>\n

Russia exploited this air superiority exclusively using drones.\u00a0 Russia has deployed\u00a0some 14 different types of drones<\/a>\u00a0ranging from high-altitude surveillance UAVs flying along the border to small quadcopters.\u00a0 Of particular note is that Russian tactical drones in the Donbas are closely integrated with artillery and rocket units.\u00a0 Artillery has a prominent place in Russian military doctrine. Whereas for Western forces, artillery supports manoeuvre, for Russian forces,\u00a0manoeuvre supports artillery<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which then finishes off the engagement. Some\u00a085% of the Ukrainian land force casualties<\/a>\u00a0have been caused by Russian artillery and rocket attacks. An\u00a0American observer noted<\/a>\u00a0that in one attack:<\/p>\n

\u201cin a three minute period\u2026 a Russian fire strike wiped out two mechanized [Ukrainian] battalions with a combination of top-attack munitions and thermobaric warheads.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ukrainian forces consider that if a drone flies overhead and locates them, a Russian area attack from mobile artillery and multiple launch rocket systems can be expected\u00a0within 10-15 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please click here to read the full\u00a0\u201cOther peoples’ air power: Air superiority without fast jets\u201d<\/a>\u00a0article published at The Central Blue,\u00a0written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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