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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about Ukraine and a Mainstay....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Ukraine and a Mainstay....

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Well, howdy there internet people, let bow again so today we are going to talk

0:26.4

about Ukraine and a plane a plane that is making international headlines and we're going to talk about why.

0:34.2

So we will talk about the A50 mainstay.

0:38.2

What it does, why this particular development is so significant and what it means if this

0:47.4

is something that can be duplicated. Okay so if you miss the reporting have no

0:52.2

idea what I'm talking about.

0:55.9

It's being reported that Ukraine took down an A-50 mainstay.

1:01.5

That's an AWACs, which is an airborne early warning and

1:05.2

control system. These are the planes you see in movies that they look like

1:12.0

commercial planes but they have like a giant dish

1:14.6

on the top of them their job is to watch everything the mainstay it's been a

1:22.2

minute but the mainstay, I want to say, could see out to like 400 miles,

1:29.0

something like that, it could track 300 ground targets and 40 to 50 air targets at once. Very complex piece of

1:37.4

equipment. Also incredibly expensive.

1:43.4

The mainstay runs a little bit more than $300 million apiece. The last estimate that was available which came out just before the war, just before the

1:59.1

Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Russia had 10 of them that were still airworthy. These things

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