Flares and chaff are often launched at the same time. The flares should attract ir guided munitions and the chaff should attract radar guided munitions.
Also,
aren’t those radar guided missiles?
Personally, I can’t read the serial number on it from that video, so I can’t really say.
This is why I shake my head when people say the US should just “cut our losses” because “Ukraine can’t win”. Even presuming that’s right, this is all still hardware that Russia can’t use on NATO member states or in the Caucuses and Central Asia.
Russia is also using up stocks of other “enemys of the global west” (for lack of a better umbrella term) like Iran, North Korea, and to some extent China.
That is seriously awesome, I've read that they only had 6 or 8 of these things in total & they were a good $300M to build back when Russia could easily get the parts.
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