A photo of a Ukrainian Su-24M aircraft with Storm Shadow missiles appeared

The long-range Storm Shadow missiles of Anglo-French production have recently appeared in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were handed over to the Ukrainian regime by Great Britain. The flight range of such missiles can reach up to 500 (according to other sources - 560) kilometers at low altitude. It is not reported how many missiles the UK transferred to Ukraine.

These missiles are used for air strikes against targets of various nature. To use such missiles, Su-24M aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian Air Force were equipped.

One of these aircraft fell into the frame of the photographer. We see in a photograph published on the Internet a Su-24M carrying two long-range Storm Shadow missiles.

As you know, the Su-24 is a Soviet tactical front-line bomber, which was developed in the USSR in the mid-late 1960s and put into service in the 1970s. On the basis of the Su-24, several later modifications were created, including the Su-24M bomber.

As of 2022, Ukraine had 14 Su-24M bombers, 11 of which, according to media sources, have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation, and 9 Su-24MR.

After the Storm Shadow missiles were provided to the Kyiv regime, the necessary work was carried out, the results of which made it possible to use these missiles from Su-24M bombers. For example, just such a bomber fired missiles of this type at Lugansk on May 12, when the first use of long-range missiles after their transfer to Ukraine was recorded.

Comments

[Argon]

We hope that soon they will not have such carriers!
And damn it infuriates me alone that they paint everything that is on the outskirts blue-yellow? It seems that if they had the right amount of paint, they would have painted the entire territory and people. Does the Soviet legacy tell?

[Rumata]

Quote: Argon

they will not have such carriers!

Then others will be sent from the west. (((

[Asad]

It’s not for nothing that they talk about the F 16, Soviet planes are running out, Amer’s will go.

[TermNachTer]

They won’t go, the F-16 won’t raise a “storm”, the suspension points are not designed for such a weight.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: TermNachTER

They won’t go, the F-16 won’t raise a “storm”, the suspension points are not designed for such a weight.

The F-16 fighter has 9 hardpoints. The combat load is 5420 kg. True, to the detriment of maneuverability, it can be 9276 kg.

Mass of weapons by hardpoints:

central - two of 1,58 thousand kg;
under the fuselage - 1 thousand kg;
internal - two of 2,04 thousand kg;
at the ends - two of 193 kg;
external - two 318 kg each;
add. suspension points on the side of the air collector - two 408 kg each.
Source: https://samoletos.ru/samolety/f-16

Four knots are suitable for the Storm's suspension on the F-16 and all four missiles can be lifted in one sortie.

Extra charges:
The Storm Shadow is carried by F-16, Tornado, Mirage 2000, Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and Saab Gripen aircraft. Taking into account the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have Western aircraft available, they could use an upgraded version of the Su-24 or MiG-29.

[TermNachTer]

The central pendants of the F - 16 are designed for 1000 kg. The regular carrier of the "storm" in NATO are the "Tornado" and "Eurofighter", heavy, twin-engine vehicles.

[blackGRAIL]

The F-16 is a regular carrier of the main American KR AGM-158 JASSM (weight 1000 kg, range 400 or 1000 km depending on the version, warhead 450 kg) and carries 2 of these missiles.

[TermNachTer]

A thousand kg., I still believe. Since the suspension is designed for 908 kg. + some margin of safety, 300 - 400 pounds. Total, somewhere around 1100 kg., But not 1300. Not to mention the clearance.

[private person]

11 of which, according to media sources, have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation

What really needs to be said directly is not the media, but the mouthpiece of the RF Ministry of Defense Konashenko said, he generally said a lot of things.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: private person

11 of which, according to media sources, have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation

I wrote about this in the early days of the SVO. I will repeat again.
The leadership of Ukraine received information about the upcoming NWO from the United States and its allies (this is why the embassies fled from Kyiv). And the leadership of the Russian Federation actually presented an ultimatum to Kyiv, or what we ask or NVO.
Someone considers all the generals of the SVU and di-otami? No? Then what should be the actions of an adequate military?
The most obvious is to hide the most valuable equipment, and place decoys in its place. Which was done, especially since the APU had more decommissioned aircraft than in flying condition.
Therefore, the most probable number of combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed on the first day is somewhere around 0 whole and 0 tenths.

[figwam]

Yes, the Su-24M is real, which means they were modernized somewhere in the geyropes

[expert]

This painting of everything and everything, in yellow-blue colors, is based on a constant feeling of one's own inferiority and "understatement", which requires, even through these "arts", to constantly prove the opposite to the whole world, and even to one's own population.
Miserable ...

[freddyk]

Quote: Argon

We hope that soon they will not have such carriers!
And damn it infuriates me alone that they paint everything that is on the outskirts blue-yellow? It seems that if they had the right amount of paint, they would have painted the entire territory and people. Does the Soviet legacy tell?

Strange comparison. Then they should paint everything in red and draw stars on the technique. But they draw Wehrmacht crosses. So the legacy there is still different.

[expert]

V.S. Vysotsky:
"They don't even need crosses on their graves
Crosses will also come down on the wings!

[BSD Fan]

Soviet legacy, these are planes! By the way, Russia also has, but their craving for yellow-blakyt paints is imported from Canada ...

[olezenka1]

From Canada, which they love so much, they may have imported paints, but the colors of their bad flag are an exclusively Swedish acquisition. They had such a "Swedish" addiction in history ...

[donavi49]

This is a quick recognition so that MANPADS do not fly from the infantry.

[Normann]

If you listen to our MO. where they come from. We destroy, we destroy, but we cannot destroy. It is likely that it is time, it is time, and the oligarchs have red lines.

[donavi49]

Iran, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, Belarus have Su-24s in active forces. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are in non-flying condition.

Therefore, the West has nowhere to take the Su-24.

[polynet]

Quote: Rumata

Quote: Argon

they will not have such carriers!

Then others will be sent from the west. (((

So the Americans said that they had ALREADY given everything necessary - go and defeat such a hint.

[TermNachTer]

Rzhu nimagu))) revealed a terrible military secret))) you can go to Wikipedia and read which of the Ukrainian aircraft has suspension points that allow you to hang an ASP weighing more than a ton. The answer is obvious Su - 24 and ffsssёё))) if the missiles were launched, then it was Su - 24. Hence the strike on Starokonstantinov, because it was their main base. Of interest is - how many of them are left in working order?

[polynet]

Quote: Normann

If you listen to our MO. where they come from. We destroy, we destroy, but we cannot destroy. It is likely that it is time, it is time, and the oligarchs have red lines.

You probably don’t watch the news, deliveries are flowing from the West, it is necessary to destroy the supply channels, which is why Ukrainian air defense is now being destroyed, everywhere.

[German Brit]

You just need to ask a question! Who benefits from deliveries in the Russian Federation. Say no! Not once since the beginning of the NWO has a single one been destroyed after the transfer. Also, the ways of supply and transfer. Warehouses in the western part. Everything is freely supplied to the line of contact and begins to kill! In addition, the PU covered the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a red line and does not allow the Rada to be destroyed. Not a single shelling of Kyiv. Only a suburb. And they are already circling over Moscow. Ready to raze it to the ground!

[bober1982]

A photo of the Su-24M, in yellow and blue colors, is simply moronic, they don’t have to paint anything in this color - like a garbage container, like a trash can, or an airplane.
At one time, when creating the Su-24, a whole institute worked on its coloring, since this is connected with the survivability of the machine, here - hello to the enemy’s air defense.

[Sergey_Sailor]

But what about the words of Konashenkov, at the next briefing, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had no bomber and fighter aircraft, as well as helicopters.
On satellite images, after the strike of the Kyrgyz Republic on the airbase of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it was clear that at least 5 units of the SU-24 remained intact. There was also a video with the Mi-28 in the amount of 4 pieces, flying calmly and naturally.

[Fitter65]

We see in a photograph published on the Internet a Su-24M carrying two long-range Storm Shadow missiles.

We see the Su-24M, which, roughly speaking, underwent a major overhaul, the fuselage in the color of an anodized "lumia", as well as the left half of the stabilizer, the wing (rotary parts), judging by the appearance, the main parts + traces of operation, taken from another aircraft. But why did they hang ammunition on this Frankenstein? Type - from the workshop, after repair, immediately into battle? And if it comes back then we'll paint it!

[donavi49]

This is a traditional scheme with a yellow belly - so that your own infantry does not charge.

FA aircraft use this scheme.

[blackGRAIL]

On May 29, there was a detailed article on VO.
https://topwar.ru/217991-da-vse-taki-su-24.html

However, if you are not too lazy and find this photo in a higher resolution, for example, from the Ukraine Weapons Tracker on Twitter (I don’t know where they got hold of it), then some experts concluded from it that the photo is not a Su-24M, not a front-line bomber, but a more exotic version of the Su-24MR, a tactical reconnaissance aircraft.

[Grits]

There are many more Su-24 aircraft in service with Russia than in Ukraine. They just don't apply for some reason. Amazing things - Ukraine has almost no planes left, as Koneshankov said, air defense has been destroyed, there are no pilots, there are no missiles and production, ours are bombing airfields, but Ukrainian missiles constantly fly at our facilities.
In contrast to them, we have plenty of both Su-24s and Su-34s, there are pilots trained and passed through Syria, there are a bunch of untouched airfields, our own production base, a bunch of cover fighters, layered cool air defense. But we almost never see the use of these front-line bombers. Sometimes it slips that some point objects (such as an observation point) are hit. But the bomber must destroy and burn everything in its path. And their use in decent quantities is simply necessary.