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Ukraine Shocks the World After Seizing a Russian Su-35 John Edward 15.8K subscribers ... 152,533 views ... 8.9K likes Jan 1, 2026 At dawn in Russia’s Kursk gray zone, an $85M Su-35 Flanker becomes the target of the most daring battlefield heist of the war. Using cheap decoy drones, AI swarm warfare, and a hidden software backdoor, Ukrainian forces pull off a flawless soft kill, capturing the jet’s $50M radar and exposing a massive weakness in Russia’s air defense network. This video breaks down how modern drones, electronic warfare, and smart tactics turned an untouchable fighter into a strategic catastrophe for the Kremlin—and why this operation may change air warfare forever. How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. I am John Edward, where we break down complex financial and geopolitical stories into insights you can actually understand. Hit subscribe and turn on notifications. At 5:20 a.m., a muddy field in the coarse gray zone becomes the stage for what might be the most audacious military heist in modern history. Russia's $85 million pride and joy. The CU35 Flanker E sits paralyzed in the dirt with its landing gear crushed after a humiliating belly landing. Ukrainian GUR special operators have exactly 20 minutes to secure the $50 million radar before the Russian Air Force arrives to vaporize the evidence. If they succeed, they own the Kremlin's most guarded secrets. If they fail, they're caught in the world's most expensive crossfire. This wasn't just mechanical failure. This was a calculated heist that started 2 hours ago with a swarm of ghosts. Here's what you need to understand right now. The Sue35's radar is a masterpiece of engineering, but it runs on software 1:00 with a very peculiar habit. Every time the system boots up, it sends out a tiny encrypted handshake to its home base. Kind of like how your old Windows PC used to call home to check for an activation key. To the Russians, this was a standard security feature. To the Ukrainians, it was a breadcrumb trail. They hadn't just found a flaw, they'd found a back door into the most guarded cockpit in the Kremlin's arsenal. For 4 days, they watched this specific SUe35 from the 105th Guards Division. They knew its fuel levels, its maintenance schedule, and most importantly, the exact moment it would be most vulnerable in the gray zone of Korsk. But here's the problem we're looking at. Korsk isn't a playground. It's a hornet's nest. The Russians have draped a steel umbrella over the region with S400 and Pancier batteries every 30 m. It's a place where anything with wings usually goes to die within seconds. The stakes couldn't be higher. If the Ukrainians just wanted to destroy the jet, they could have used a missile and called it a day. But a pile of charred titanium is 2:02 useless. They wanted the brain, that $50 million Herbis radar, and the encryption codes that protect the entire Russian Air Force data link. The goal was a soft kill, but entering Russian controlled airspace meant flying into a radar wall that can track 300 targets at once. One wrong move, one second of hesitation, and the hunters would become the hunted. The trap was set. At 4:30 a.m., 20 Ukrainian Leudi drones roar into the sky at 120 mph. At $15,000 each, these are essentially flying lawnmowers packed with explosives, and they're heading straight for the heart of Russia's energy supply in Kursk. Inside the Russian command center, the steel umbrella is in total meltdown. 20 blips are crawling across their monitors and the commanders face a brutal choice. Ignore the threat and watch their fuel hubs burn or fire two million dollar S400 missiles at $15,000 fiberglass toys. The panic wins. Moscow screams for 3:02 the heavy hitters. Two Sue35 flankers scream off the Vor runway, dumping 36,600 lb of raw afterburner thrust to intercept the garbage swarm. To these elite pilots, this is a turkey shoot. They want their easy kills and they want them now. 6 minutes into the mission, the first Sue35 pilot locks his OS35 infrared tracker onto a Leudi. He doesn't even bother with a radar lock. He wants a clean, quiet kill. The heat-seeking R73 missile leaves the rail at Mach 2.5. 5 seconds later, boom. The Leudi drone disappears in a significant thermal event, turning $15,000 of plastic into a shower of burning confetti. The Russian pilot chirps over the radio. Target neutralized. Too easy. He banks hard, pulls seven G's and lines up the next one. Another R73 streaks through the dawn sky. Impact. A second drone vaporizes. Russian commanders are cheering, but they should be checking 4:01 their bank accounts. They just spent $4 million on missiles to take out $30,000 worth of drones. It's like using a Ferrari to run over a couple of $10 skateboards. It works, but the math is suicidal. The Russian pilots are cocky now, pushing their throttles forward, hunting the remaining drones, moving deeper into the engagement zone, leaving the safety of their groundbased air defenses behind. They think they're winning the world's most expensive game of duck hunt. What they don't realize is that while they were busy blowing up cheap decoys, their own flight computers were being fed a digital poison through that back door Ukraine found 96 hours ago. As the Sue35 pursued the last remaining drone, venturing far beyond its safe zone, it became the target of the ambush. Here's why. Shooting down those cheap lawnmowers was actually a death sentence for an $85 million jet. The moment that Russian pilot pulled the trigger on the Leuti drones, he did two 5:00 things. He broadcast his exact GPS coordinates to everyone within 100 miles. And as the first drone vaporized, 60 drones from the Phantom Swarm 2.0 O unit launched simultaneously from hidden thickets just 10 miles away. Imagine you're playing hide-and-seek in a hall of mirrors. You see your opponent everywhere, but every time you lunge, you just hit glass. That's exactly what started happening on the Sue35's radar screen. These 60 drones weren't just flying. They were carrying powerful AI processors that were talking directly to the Russian radar. Using the digital backdoor Ukraine hacked, these drones knew exactly which frequencies the Su35 was scanning. They didn't just jam the signal, they manipulated it. The result, on the Russian pilot's monitor, he didn't see 60 tiny drones. He saw 60 F-16 Vipers screaming toward him from every single direction at Mach 2. This is the moment everything changes. The pilot went into total panic. He tried to lock onto a target at his 12:00, but it 6:02 instantly vanished and reappeared at his 6:00. He's slamming buttons trying to get a missile lock, but the $50 million radar system is just returning error messages. Target lost, reacquiring. The world's most advanced air superiority display now resembles a broken 1990s television set in the midst of a thunderstorm. But while the Sue35 was busy chasing shadows and burning fuel in a frantic dog fight against ghosts, it completely missed a tiny whisper quiet signal skimming just 50 ft above the ground. That was the real threat. A lone Ukrainian F-16 Viper using data fed directly from a Saab 340 Awax circling safely 150 m away. The F-16 kept its own radar completely dark. It was a silent assassin. At a distance of 40 mi, the Ukrainian pilot pressed the pickle button and let loose an AM120 missile. Ironically, this wasn't a shot to kill. Ukraine didn't want a charred pile of 7:00 titanium. They wanted the brain. The AM120 was set to proximity fuse mode. It wasn't aiming for the engines. It was aiming for the space just a few feet above the Sue35 spine. 3 2 1. The missile detonated 10 ft above the rear tail section. A cloud of tungsten shrapnel shredded the horizontal stabilizers and severed the primary hydraulic lines in the stinger tail. In an instant, the invincible beast was paralyzed. It didn't disintegrate. It became a high-speed glider. As the Sue35 performed a brutal belly landing in the Kursk mud, the fuselage acted as a 60-foot shock absorber, keeping the Herbis radar in the nose perfectly intact. The Russian pilot has exactly 1.5 seconds to make a choice. He pulls the handles, the canopy jets away, and the pilot is punched into the sky under a white parachute, watching his $85 million career disappear into the dirt. But the real war is just beginning. Every radar operator within 200 m just 8:01 saw that blip vanish. Moscow is in total frenzy. They know exactly what's on that plane. The BBIS radar is the crown jewel, and they'd rather turn that field into a crater than let Ukraine touch it. At 5:22 a.m., back at Russian command, the order is cold and immediate. Vaporize the wreckage. No survivors, no evidence. Two SU34 fullback bombers orbiting 60 mi away are immediately vetored to the crash site. Their mission is simple. Drop four FAB 500 laserg guided bombs and turn that Sue 35 into a 30foot crater before the Ukrainians can even smell the jet fuel. However, the GUR Grand Theft Arrow team is already there. Emerging from a nearby treeine like a monster from a heavy metal music video, the M1070 heavy equipment transporter roars into view. Imagine the world's most aggressive Uber XL, but built by Oshkosh and designed to haul 70 ton M1 Abrams tanks through liquid mud. This 8H88 beast powered by a 700 9:02 horsepower Detroit diesel engine churns through the earth. Its 53-in tires, leaving ruts deep enough to bury a motorcycle. The GU technicians jump out before the truck even stops. They have exactly 12 minutes. Moving a Sue35 with its 50ft wingspan is impossible on these roads, so they attach linear shaped charges along the wing roots. In a controlled snap, the massive wings are severed. The Corsk mud, flash frozen by the morning chill, acts like a lubricated slide. The M1070s dual 55,000lb winches scream as they drag the wingless fuselage onto the trailer. It's a 15-tonon heavy metal ballet rehearsed 50 times on old Soviet frames. The clock is ticking and the sky isn't waiting. Vampire. Vampire. The Ukrainian Saab 340 Awax loitering safely behind the border detects the Russian SU34s locking their laser designators. The Russians launched two KH29 missiles, each carrying a 700lb 10:02 warhead streaking toward the wreckage at Mach 2. But Ukraine didn't just bring a truck. They brought an invisible shield. The 50 remaining AI drones form a multisspectral obscuration wall at 500 ft. They release a thick cloud of carbon fiber chaff and metallic aerosols. To the Russian Sue34's laser designators and TV guided KH29 missiles, the crash site simply vanishes. The laser beams scatter uselessly against the aerosol cloud and the TV seekers are blinded by a gray void. The missiles lose lock, overshooting the wreckage by 974 ft. The shock wave shatters the windows of a nearby farmhouse, but the Sue35 remains intact. Think about what's happening here. The Russian Sue34 pilots are furious. They dive lower, trying to get a visual, but they run straight into the Patriot trap. A Ukrainian Patriot battery hidden in a forest 20 miles away finally switches its radar from standby to kill mode. The Sue34's radar warning 11:01 receiver screams a solid tone. The Russian pilot jinks hard, dumping chaff like his life depends on it because it does. A PAC 3 interceptor leaves the canister at Mach 4. In less than 15 seconds, the sky over Kursk is lit up by a $50 million fireball as the first Sue 34 is neutralized. Down on the ground, the Mton70 driver is sweating through his tactical vest. The Sue35 is finally on the trailer, but it's sitting awkwardly. 8,000 tons of grain silo in our last video was heavy, but this this is $85 million of don't drop it. Go, go, go. The M1070 slams into gear, its 18-speed transmission screaming as it pulls the streamlined 15-tonon fuselage load onto the paved road. They're moving at 45 mph. Fast for a house on wheels, but a sitting duck for Russian artillery. Moscow is now throwing everything they have. They launch a swarm of 10 Lancet suicide drones from a nearby ridge. These are the scalpels of the Russian army. They dive at 100 mph, 12:01 aiming for the M1070s engine block. But Ukrainian electronic warfare specialists on the back of the HE activate a frequency hopping dome. Using Starlink Mini for real-time data sync, they create a 300 ft dead zone. As the Lancets enter the radius, their video feeds turn to static. Four Lancets go dumb, crashing harmlessly into the ruts. Three more are picked off by Gore operators using handheld sky nodes jammers. It's a 30-mile dash to the border through a corridor of fire. Russian 152 Milanita's artillery is bracketing the highway. The shells landing closer and closer. Every impact sends a spray of shrapnel against the exposed airframe. It sounds like a thousand hammers hitting a bell. The GU team isn't just driving. They're working. Inside the trailer support cabin, a technician has a fiber optic cable snaked into the SU35's avionics bay. He's not looking at the artillery, he's looking at the code. I've got it, 13:00 he whispers over the comms. The herb is still pinging. It's trying to call home. The Russian radar, even in its dead state, is still a traitor. It's broadcasting a low power maintenance signal designed to help Russian technicians find a lost bird. But in the hands of the GUR, this signal is a digital compass. Now, here's where it gets even more insane. As the M10 own 70 crosses the final bridge into Ukrainian held Sunumi, the Russian Escander M ballistic missile finally arrives. It's too late. The missile's 1,000lb warhead vaporizes the bridge exactly 45 seconds after the M1070 cleared it. The heist is successful. The big boy has delivered the prize. The Sue35 sits on the trailer, muddy, battered, but its brain is wide open for the taking as the M1070 H rolls into a heavily camouflaged hanger in the Sunumi region. This is where the ultimate betrayal transforms from a battlefield heist into a strategic earthquake for the Kremlin. Inside the hangar, Ukrainian GUR cyber 14:00 engineers isolate the Sue35's herb radar in a Faraday cage, a room that kills all rogue transmissions. But they don't just sit there. They plug a fiber optic cable directly into the maintenance port, creating a man-in-the-middle bridge. This allows the radar to think it's talking to the sky while the GUR filters every data packet. What they find inside this digital link is the holy grail of lazy Russian engineering. Remember that call home handshake we mentioned? It turns out the Russian Sue35's avionic suite operates exactly like a high-end but poorly secured smartome system. To maintain air superiority sync, every SU35 in the 105th Guards Division is programmed to periodically ping a central server at the Verone Air Base to update its encrypted data link. It's the ultimate irony. Russia's most advanced fighter jet has the digital loyalty of a stolen iPhone trying to find its owner. Instead of blocking the signal, the GUR technicians create a digital sandbox, a fake environment that tricks the Sue35 15:00 into thinking it's still sitting on a Russian tarmac. The radar pings Vorones and Vores pings back. Bingo. The back trace is instantaneous. Within minutes, the Ukrainians aren't just looking at one jet. They're looking through the eyes of the entire Veron air base. They've bypassed the firewall and now have a real-time map of every hanger, every fuel depot, and most importantly, the exact GPS coordinates of every other CU35 currently undergoing maintenance. Moscow didn't just lose an 85 million dollar aircraft. They just handed over the master key to their entire frontline air operations. Within 48 hours of this soft kill extraction, Russia is forced to ground its entire flanker fleet in the region. They realize their encrypted data link is no longer a shield. It's a tracking beacon. This creates a massive 200-mile security hole in the Kursk front, forcing Russian bombers to fly without fighter escorts or retreat to bases deep inside Russia. The steel umbrella has been folded up and tossed 16:00 into the trash. Now, let's look at the math of betrayal we're analyzing right now. On one side, you have the Kremlin, which spent 15 years and billions of rubles developing a raptor killer that ended up being captured by a 700 horsepower truck and some clever code. On the other side, you have Ukraine, which used $600,000 worth of phantom drones to secure a $50 million radar and intelligence worth billions. What would your next move be if you just discovered this digital back door? Would you launch a massive strike on the Vores base immediately? Or would you stay quiet and continue listening to every Russian flight plan for the next month? If you found this breakdown insightful, subscribe to John Edward, hit the bell icon, and share this video because understanding the intersection of money, power, and strategy is more important today than ever. Stay informed, stay prepared, and we'll continue uncovering the moves shaping our

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