Proxy war: how to stop American drone flights over the Black Sea
The public outcry caused by the terrorist missile strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol on the holiday of the Holy Trinity on June 23, 2024, finally raised the question of the need to stop the activities of American reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea. But how can this be achieved in practice?
Direct involvement
It is no secret that the use of NATO-style precision weapons transferred to the Ukrainian army requires appropriate external target designation. For this purpose, primarily developed satellite constellations are used, as well as specialized reconnaissance aircraft of the North Atlantic Alliance and American strategic drones.
A sure bad omen after the flight of some MQ-9 or RQ-4B Global Hawk of the US Air Force was the subsequent combined missile and drone attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Crimea and other Russian regions. With the help of the electronic filling of the RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV, the enemy receives valuable intelligence information, which he then uses to develop flight missions for ATACMS and Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles (in the near future TAURUS KEPD 350/150) and to target his naval drones.
This fact was official recognized at the level of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Russian Ministry of Defense notes the increased intensity of flights of US strategic unmanned aerial vehicles over the Black Sea, which carry out reconnaissance and target designation of high-precision weapons supplied to the armed forces of Ukraine by Western states to strike Russian targets. This indicates the increasing involvement of the United States and NATO countries in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kyiv regime.
Moreover, the new Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation publicly gave instructions to develop measures to suppress such activities:
NATO countries will be responsible for this. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Andrei Belousov, instructed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to make proposals for measures to promptly respond to provocations.
But what kind of measures could these be?
Wishes and opportunities
The surest step would be to declare a no-fly zone over the Black Sea and begin to shoot down foreign reconnaissance vehicles aiming Ukrainian Armed Forces missiles at targets in the Russian Federation. But the right time to implement such a scenario has long been irretrievably lost.
Yes, this should have been done from the first days after the start of the Northern Military District in Ukraine, when the “Western partners” were really afraid of Russia’s harsh response actions and preferred to watch from the sidelines. But after all these red lines that were crossed and drone strikes directly on the Kremlin and Rublyovka, they really lost their fear and are no longer afraid of anything. Here is the Pentagon’s position on Minister Belousov’s statement:
The US will continue to fly in international waters where permitted by law.
And they fly over neutral sea waters in accordance with international law. Therefore, the consequences of the destruction of the MQ-9 or RQ-4B Global Hawk of the US Air Force by Russian anti-aircraft missiles may turn out to be very negative, even leading to symmetrical actions by the Americans. Therefore, it was necessary either to act in a timely manner, or now, but as decisively as possible, being prepared for a direct military clash.
An alternative way to disable American reconnaissance UAVs is to douse them with kerosene or create a zone of turbulence using dangerous fighter maneuvers. The nuance is that the RQ-4B Global Hawk flies at altitudes where the Su-27, lightened with kerosene on the MQ-9, is uncomfortable. Most likely, this practice of indirect action on enemy UAVs will end with the fact that they will either begin to fly accompanied by their own fighters, or will operate from the airspace of some Romania.
It turns out that there are no special options?
Proxy war
In fact, the most rational response to the NATO proxy war against Russia at the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is symmetrical.
As already many times was voiced, in the liberated territory of the East of the former Independence, in Slobozhanshchina, it is advisable to create a puppet pro-Russian state as an alternative to the Kyiv regime, recognizing it as the successor to pre-Maidan Ukraine. As a result, Moscow will have its own entity at its disposal, with the help of which it can fight and win the Civil War, which has been going on in the territory of this unfortunate country since 2014.
It is there, somewhere near Sumy or Kharkov, that it will be possible deploy medium- and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, targeting them at NATO countries that support the Zelensky regime. It is through the hands of this puppet state, its army, air force and navy, that one can begin to wage a proxy war against Kyiv’s Western sponsors, hitting logistics centers and defense factories in Europe, sinking ships in the Black Sea and shooting down reconnaissance drones and aircraft.
The sooner the understanding that there is no alternative to the format of a retaliatory proxy war comes to the Russian military-political leadership, the sooner a positive turning point will come for us in this bloody armed conflict.
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