-29 -27, , , " | | ", ": : 100 2 -8. Subsequently, it downed the chopper with a missile, killing a high-ranking naval officer. Prior to the conflict, it was expected that Russia's bigger, newer fleet would control the skies. - , , (30.12.14 17:38) | .", "Ukrainians' Anti-Putin Strategy: Drones", " - . Some officers lost take over a decade, and between thousands and millions of dollars to train.. The Ukrainian air-force continued to use armament and military equipment which functioned mainly thanks to so-called cannibalization (obtaining spare parts from other units), thus gradually depleting their total capabilities. Ukraine says Russia has lost 3,500 soldiers, 22 aircraft, 100 tanks. As of Friday, the Kremlin's military had lost a total of 286 aircraft since Russia's late-February invasion of Ukraine, reported the open-source military tracking site Oryx. [46], On Thursday, 24 February 2022, the Air Force began to respond to the advance of Russian Aerospace Forces planes and materiel towards Ukrainian skies as part of the country's invasion by the Russian Armed Forces. As obituaries and other media accounts of Russian pilots almost never attribute the cause/circumstances of death, it's not possible to corroborate Ukrainian air-to-air claims from these sources. On 4 April 2014 a single repaired MiG-29 is transferred to the. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on Facebook that according to its estimates, Russia had lost 14 aircraft . [12] It had formerly been part of the 119th Maritime Fighter Aviation Division of the Black Sea Fleet. Another possible candidate is Ukraines Neptune missile, the type used to sink the Moskva. The airport is a graveyard of burned out buildings and charred vehicles stacked on top of each other. After heavy losses early in the war, neither side is willing to penetrate deep into enemy airspace. as well as other partner offers and accept our. Ukraine's fighter force has suffered the worst. A BBC investigation found that the Russian army has lost numerous elite troops in Ukraine. In his nightly address Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials have continued to gain "critical" support from several European allies "for the launch of a special tribunala tribunal on Russian aggression. [19], There were also three air defence corps: the 28th (Lviv), 49th (Odessa), and 60th (Dnipropetrovsk). -1", " ", "Ukrainian forges plane wreckage into key fobs to fund war effort", " -34", " , "", "A Russian helicopter was lifted from the bottom of the Kyiv Sea", "- ", " 3 4 2022", "Ukrainian defenders destroy one more enemy Su-25 together with pilot", "Russian Forces Now Occupy Europe's Largest Nuclear Plant In Ukraine", ", ", " -8", "The Russian Air Force Just Had A Terrible Day Over Ukraine", "Russian pilot Alexei Khasanov died while performing military duty", "5 ", "Two Russian aircraft shot down on Saturday Arestovych", " , ", " -34", "Watch: Ukraine Missile Takes Down Russian Helicopter", "Video of Ukrainian MANPADS Shooting Down Russian Gunship Helicopter Surfaces", " 3 . [18] Units stationed in Moldova were transferred to the Moldovan Armed Forces (275th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade, battalions and companies from the 14th Radio-Technical Brigade). He further claimed that Ukrainian Air Force is at "about 80%" of its pre-invasion strength after 7 months of combat. This would make Ukrainian ground forces very vulnerable, and they would have to worry constantly about being hit from the air. The air base may well have been destroyed by an ammunition explosion, just not an accidental one. Stay up to date with what you want to know. A half year later, Ukrainian and Russian fighters continue to joust, mostly with long-range missiles, while both sides' ground-attack aviation remains active at low altitudes near the frontline. . The US estimates that Russia is using just over 75 aircraft in its Ukraine invasion, the senior US official said. The only comfort for Russian planners and pilots, and it's a cold one, is that Ukraine has lost a lot of aircraft, too. [4] During this conflict it has lost several planes and helicopters. Kyiv's claims of 234 downed Russian jets are also not credible. Russian media claimed a MiG-31 scored the type's first kill on April 28 downing a Ukrainian Su-24, but did not produce evidence. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to some of the most sustained air-to-air combat in decades. The electronic counter-measure (ECM) systems on the Ukrainian jets are made in Russia, which means that they were easy to overcome. 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"We do have indications that they've lost some (aircraft), but so have the . , ", "20 ", "Grigoriev, Seredyuk, Tsyurik, Tsyupak, Martsenyuk: five more Heroes of Ukraine posthumously", "One killed in transport plane crash in Ukraine, fog to blame - authorities", "An-26 plane, which was performing technical flight, crashed in Zaporizhzhia region - regional military administration", " -26. Several sources have also reported exceedingly low morale among Putin's troops, a result of poor training and successful Ukrainian counteroffensives that have forced Russia to withdraw from once-occupied cities. This division headquarters was probably the 13th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.[25]. Air Force Command Center (MU 0535), . , 9th Command Center of the Signals and ELINT System (MU 2833), 40th Special Communications Support Center (MU 1670), 41st Intelligence Command Center (MU 2280), 43rd Command Center for Search and Rescue Support to Flight Operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (MU 1134), 85th Long Distance Radio-navigation Center (MU 3666), 114th Air Navigation Support Center (MU 0985), 182nd Joint Information and Telecommunications Nod (MU 1660), 101st Signals and Command Battalion (MU 2656), 20th Special Signals and Radio-technical Equipment Repair Center (MU 1724), 73rd Flying Air-Technical Laboratory (MU 3126), 101st Repair and Overhaul Battalion (MU 3549), 2007th Repair and Overhaul Battalion (MU 4314), 99th Stationary Automobile Repair Base (MU 0294), Stationary Automobile Repair Base (MU 2466), 137th Joint Material Technical Supply Center (MU 2287), 17th Air Force Technical Support Base (MU 1840), 3rd Air Force Arsenal for Special Weaponry (MU 3177), 332nd Arsenal for Missile Systems and Armament (MU 4245), 433rd Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base (MU 1912), 485th Storage for Missile Systems and Armament (MU 2734), 649th Storage for Missile Systems and Armament (MU 3013), Training and research establishments and units. It Can't Afford To Lose Many More", "Two IL-76MD strategic airlifter were destroyed from Russian strikes at Melitopol Air Base, Ukraine", "Phoney warriors fool Ukrainian and Russian armies", "Ukrainian Leleka-100 UAV shot down by the Russian forces", "Guerre en Ukraine: vivre au milieu des mines", "Russia says it launched mass strikes on Ukrainian military overnight", " : " , . Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment. [31], Following the Revolution of Dignity and subsequent March 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the following violence and insurgency in east Ukraine, Ukraine tried to increase its defence spending and capabilities - with returning equipment to service being a key part of the spending drive. The 106th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, part of the 37th Air Army operated some of them. Ukraine was planning to put more advanced jet aircraft into service. The count stood at 204 tanks and 406 other armored vehicles for a total of 610 lost as of Monday. There were about 67,000 air defense troops in 1992. About 20 Il-78 air tankers have been also a part of the post-Soviet inheritance; nonetheless the refueling equipment on these has been removed. Its hard to say how many aircraft the Ukrainian Air Force has lost. On. Experts put the losses down to the advanced. 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Su-27 piloted by Col. Aleksandr Oksanchenko reported downed on February 25 over Kyiv by a long-range S-400 ground-launched missile while dogfighting with Russian jets and crashed into a residential building. The automated systems of collection, processing and transmission of radio information have been adopted as a component part of the Automated Command and Control System for aviation and air defense. It is tempting to assume that this strike must have been carried out by something massive, and given that it is beyond the range of HIMARS and other Ukrainian hardware, the assumption is that it is something new. | Facebook", " "", " "ZALA 421-162", "Fighters of 93rd OMBr with MANPADS Stinger destroyed enemy drone "Orlan-10" in Kharkiv region. It has more than 10 times the aircraft - 1,391 to Ukraine's 128, and 821 helicopters to Ukraine's 55 . At most, 8 of them remained active in 2013 in a cargo capacity. In fact, the Russian Ministry of Defense even said that the blasts were caused by aviation munitions igniting. A single soldier fires these missiles from his shoulder, and they're very effective at taking down low-flying helicopters. In early 2014, Flight counted 80 MiG-29s, 36 Su-27, 36 Su-25s and 24 Su-24s in Ukrainian servicealthough, to be fair, many of these planes were . [39] On 5 January 2015 the air force received another 4 newly restored airplanes, two MiG-29s and two Su-27s, as well as two Mi-8 and Mi-2 helicopters. It's essential not to over-extrapolate from an incomplete dataset drawing on deeply selection-biased sources. Ever since, the Ukrainian Air Force has been downsizing and upgrading its forces. [94], This article is currently affected by the ongoing. [4] Following the 5 September 2014 ceasefire, the air force was suspended from carrying out missions in the contested areas of Donbas. Su-30SM piloted by Alexei Khasanov, KIA March 5, Su-25SM piloted by Lt. Col. Oleg Chervov, KIA March 7, Su-25SM "Red 10" (RF-91969) from 18th Attack Aviation Regiment. One video shows rows of tower blocks a kilometer from the airbase with shattered windows, while a video taken while driving through the bases car park reveals burned-out vehicles, one impaled sideways by a flying steel beam. The cargo planes which have been lost include single examples of An-26 Curl, An-30 Clank, and Il-76 Candid. Russia . On 19 March 2014 repaired L-39 were transferred to the 203rd Training Aviation Brigade. Missiles, especially subsonic cruise missiles like Neptune, are usually visible even if indistinct. To answer that question, I took a short drive outside Kyiv today. [17] It has been reported that Tu-16s based with the 251st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment at Belaya Tserkov were dismantled in 1993. What happened? L-39 jet trainer piloted by Maj. Dmytro Kolomiyets shot down by Russian fighters as he sought to divert them from Ukrainian aircraft evacuating from Ozerne airbase, Zhytomyr. Modernization of these aircraft has been planned, and some aircraft were actually updated before the conflict started. Ukraine also had 66 Su-27 Flankers, which includes 40 Su-27S Flanker-Bs, which are capable of conducting air-to-ground sorties, 26 Su-27P Flanker-Bs, which are an interceptor variant, and Su-27UB Flanker-Cs, which are two-seaters. Most or all of the Russian air-to-air kills likely involved its single-seat Su-35S fighter and two-seat Su-30SM Flankers, which are assigned air superiority missions. While outside the scope of this survey, fixed-wing aircraft aren't the only concern of air-to-air combat. Su-34 "Red 43" (RF-95858) of the 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment. People are picking up the pieces around Kharkiv after liberation by Ukrainian forces. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many aircraft were left in Ukrainian territory. Sign up for notifications from Insider! The same tactics are used for intercepting drones. Last reliable information of the number of Ukrainian Airforce operational aircraft came from December 2021; during the ongoing conflict, losses and technical reffiting and donations may have changed the reported numbers. [citation needed] By 1995, the IISS Military Balance 1995/96 listed no Tu-22 Blinders in service, though a listing for one division HQ and two regiments of Tu-22M Backfires remained in the Military Balance from 1995/96 to 2000/01. It covers helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and UAVs, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, including the War in Donbas and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. If Russia controlled the skies, its planes could hang out, loiter over the combat zone and target Ukrainian troops whenever they spot them. Ukrainian jets have successfully downed Russian cruise missiles hurled at Ukrainian cities, and been employed to hunt Russian surveillance drones, using by preference R-27T heat-seeking medium-range missiles. It sounds like Ukraine is doing most of the damage from the ground with its air defense systems. The tally. 150 . How does Ukraine keep intercepting Russian military communications? [38] In August a decommissioned An-26 transport aircraft was also restored to active service by a volunteer group. The tally went to 55 after the UK MoD stated that it believed that some 4 Russian jets had been downed by Ukraine over the last 10 days. The Kremlin's army has been largely overwhelmed by Ukrainian troops after severely misjudging its ability to capture the post-Soviet state. Su-25SM "Red-12" (RF-93027) from 18th AAR, Su-25SM of Col. Ruslan Rudnev, reported KIA March 1. [7] Russia has continued to deny that it supplies rebels in Ukraine with the weapons needed to shoot down planes . The true numbers are surely higher. This article seeks to identify losses of fixed-wing aircraft attributed to air-to-air combat based on current publicly available evidence. The Russian military has lost more than 10% of the combat force that President Vladimir Putin sent to invade Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. The aviation corps had actually be reorganised into regional air commands in about 2004. ", " : ", "Pilot Ihor Bedzai died defending Ukraine", " "" ", " - ", " - ", " : " - . ", " : ", " : - ", " ", "Ukraicy zaatakowali kwater rosyjskiej floty dronem z Allieexpress", " -8 ", " : ", " Bayraktar TB2 ", " 15 : ", " , ", " "" ", " "" -25", "Ukraine Situation Report: 80 Percent Of Kyiv's Airpower Remains Intact", " -24 - ", " . Notably, an Su-35 was recorded attempting to gun down a Ukrainian Mi-14 utility helicopter over Odessa Bay, only to miss. During the Donbas War, on 20 November 2014, Ukrainian sources reported at a conference in London that the total Ukrainian aerial losses during the conflict in the east were: one Su-24, six Su-25s, two MiG-29s, one An-26, one An-30 and one Il-76. Sixteen MiG-29s, 4 Su-24s and 15 Su-25 were to be withdrawn by 2015. After the opening salvos of the war on February 24,. [35], Ukraine inherited a large inventory of aircraft from the Soviet Union, these were mostly decommissioned and stored as the nation had little use or funding to keep a large fleet active. Ochakov was raised and scrapped at Inkerman in 2015.; VM-416 The Yelva-class diving support vessel was scuttled next to . Historically, all air forces heavily overclaim kills in air-to-air combat. The main inventory of the air force still consists of Soviet-made aircraft. After the collapse of the USSR and the independence of its constituent republics it was organised on the basis of the Soviet Air Force's 24th Air Army of the High Command with an Operational Purpose (24- ) (24- ()). ", "He died for Ukraine. List of ships 2014 annexation of Crimea Russian Navy. As surface to air missiles run out the fighters are called upon to do more work. As of 2007, 36,300 personnel and 225 aircraft were in service in the Ukrainian Air Force and Air Defense forces. A Ukrainian soldier with an anti-tank weapon that was used to destroy a Russian . Something that has become important as the war has progress. However, some documented combat losses in Ukraine lack an attributed cause, and some crashed Russian warplanes have been discovered in remote areas months after they were apparently shot down, leaving causality unclear. The structural reorganization of the Air Force had set as goals for itself the sufficient reduction in the total number of command and control levels, and increasing the efficiency of command and control processes. 2006 saw the definition of the functions and tasks, organization and work of the C2 and Warning Center as well as the mechanism of interaction with the establishment of the Air Operations Center and Joint Operational Command. On 30 August 2014 a single repaired An-26 is transferred to the 15th Transport Aviation Brigade. The Mi-24 proved to be highly vulnerable to Russian separatist attacks during the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. The drone was built from off the shelf components and funded by volunteers. The Air Force sustained only modest losses from Russia's initial airbase attacks. One line of speculation focuses on a mobile ballistic missile called Grom-2 which Ukraine has been working on for some time, but this is highly speculative and many question whether it could have been developed to operational status so quickly or question the lack of suitable GPS guidance systems for such a missile. A Ukrainian soldier examines a fragment of a Russian Air Force Su-25 jet after a battle at the village of Kolonshchyna, Ukraine, on April 21. Many observers (including this writer) believed this imbalance of power would result in a one-sided and short-lived contest when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. The promise of future missile attacks from Russia, however, prompted Spain to add to Ukraine's stockpile, according to a tweet from the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. President Volodymyr Zelensky said in May that Russia had lost 200 military aircraft in Ukraine. Between November 1999 and February 2001 the aircraft were transferred to Engels. Over 2,200 service personnel and civilian employees of the Air Force, employing 400 items of weapons and equipment, are summoned daily to perform defense duties. Russian aircraft losses in Ukraine 'unsustainable for more than a fortnight' Verified images show 11 planes, 11 helicopters and two drones have been shot down since invasion began, including. Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images, Press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff/Handout via REUTERS, Artyom Anikeev/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images, Nicola Marfisi/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, NOW WATCH: Watch the F-22 in action the most dangerous jet fighter in the US Air Force for the last 20 years, many relatively new and the rest extensively modernized, successfully downed Russian cruise missiles. A series of Ukrainian ammunition dumps were destroyed by massive explosions in 2015-2017, attributed to Russian special forces using small quadcopters to drop thermite grenades on them. [26][27], In 2005, the UAF was planning to restructure in an effort to improve efficiency. The first satellite images of the site reveal the extent of the devastation, with rows of burned-out aircraft so badly damaged that even counting the wrecks has been difficult. Russia also appears to be blowing through a significant amount of its military equipment stocks compared to Ukraine. Russia has much more aircraft . May 26, 2022, 9:55 AM. That figure was to be deducted from Ukraine's debt for natural gas. A statement by the ministry on Monday said that. Ochakov The Kara-class cruiser was scuttled in the Donuzlav Bay, Crimea, Ukraine, on 6 March 2014.The scuttling was part of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and intended to block ships of the Ukrainian Navy. An Il-76MD transport plane full of paratroopers was reported shot down near Vasylkiv by an Su-27 on February 25 but no wreckage was ever found. ", "Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Enters Its 17th Day", "Special Operation Forces operators seized Russian Eleron UAV", " "-3", "Proof Of Russia Using Suicide Drones In Ukraine EmergesThe latest from Russia's invasion of Ukraine as it nears its 18th day", " , ()", " -30. KYIV, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said recently that Ukraine's military had shot down its 200th Russian aircraft a figure few would have believed before the war began. The plans were, that from approximately 2012, Ukraine would have to either take bold steps to create a new combat aircraft or purchase many existing combat aircraft. The main bone of contention was the price. When it comes to cargo planes, Ukrainians inherited 180 Candid-B transport aircraft from the Soviet Union. Belarus group claims to have blown up an advanced Russian military aircraft, highlighting tensions within one of Putin's closest allies. Back in 2013 the estimated data suggested that out of these numbers only 200 combat aircraft were in active service. The 8th Separate Army of Air Defence was redesignated as the Air Defence Forces of Ukraine (i i ) and the 28th Corps AD was subordinated to it. , ", " "", "The Russians Got Caught Faking A TB-2 Drone Shoot-Down", "Ukraine Claims TB2 Drones Sunk Russian Patrol Boats Off Snake Island", " : ", " , . ", " , ", " , : ()", " , , ", " "" -9 -24", "Russia Captured Three Of Ukraine's Smallest Helicopters. The Air Defense Missile Forces of the Ukrainian Air Force performs key tasks in the protection of Ukraine's sovereignty and the inviolability of its borders and air space. The pilot ejected. [2], Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, Mikoyan MiG-27, Sukhoi Su-17, Sukhoi Su-15, Yakovlev Yak-28, Tupolev Tu-160, Tupolev Tu-95, Tupolev Tu-22M, Tupolev Tu-22, Tupolev Tu-16, Tupolev Tu-154 and the Tupolev Tu-134.[62]. At that time, the fleet consisted of 15-20 MiG-29 Fulcrums, 10-12 Su-24M/MR Fencers, 14-18 Su-25 Frogfoots and 16 Su-27 Flankers. Russia was so confident of its air power that on the first day of the war, Feb. 24, it sent around two dozen helicopters loaded with paratroopers to take the Hostomel Airport a military and cargo airport less than 10 miles northwest of the capital. The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Valeriy Zlauzhnyi, also predicted at the time that Russia had lost 278 aircraft as of November 3, which was over twice what the Russian military lost during the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1989. Russian airplanes have increased their operations due to the 2022 Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast counteroffensive. In 2006, many aging weapons and equipment were decommissioned from combat service by the Air Force. How are these developments playing out on the main battlefield in eastern Ukraine? You may opt-out by. On 6 July 2014 a repaired Buk-M1 is transferred to the Air Defense Forces. ", " . [23] The two air corps remained active in 1996: the 14th in the Carpathian MD and the 5th in the Odessa MD, which by that time incorporated the former Kyiv MD area. But this isn't nearly as accurate or effective as having planes directly over the battlefield for extended periods, where they can adjust to the situation on the ground. This is a BETA experience. But Ukraine's air defenses have been so effective that Russian pilots often fire their weapons while over Russia and never enter Ukrainian airspace. ", " , . [30] The IISS said they were grouped into the 5th and 14th Aviation Corps, the 35th Aviation Group, which is a multi-role rapid reaction formation, and a training aviation command. Now life is returning to normal in many ways shops are open, people are on the street, traffic jams are becoming commonplace. Q. Due to such increased strengthening of air space control, the number of air space violations decreased by 35% compared to the previous year, even though the amount of air traffic increased by 30%.[11]. This presented an opportunity to use the released funds to the modernization of various items of aviation and anti-aircraft artillery weapons and equipment, radio communication equipment, and flight maintenance equipment, as well as an improvement of Air Force personnel training. The war continues, for now. Ukraine said Russia has suffered a loss of more than 17,500 military personnel, 1,735 armoured vehicles, 1,201 wheeled vehicles, 614 tanks, 311 artillery, 75 fuel tanks, 96 rocket systems, 131 . On 29 May 2014 a decision is taken to consolidate all MiG-29 repair the Lviv Aviacon Plant. as well as other partner offers and accept our, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Sukhoi_Su-27UB_Belyakov.jpg, Andrey Rakul/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Force_Ilyushin_Il-76_shoot-down#mediaviewer/File:Ukrainian_Air_Force_Ilyushin_Il-76MD_%2876777%29.jpeg, MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems). Sometimes in 1918 the West Ukrainian People's Republic created its own aviation corps with the Ukrainian Galician Army headed by Petro Franko, a son of renown Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider It allowed the Armed Forces of Ukraine to adopt the tri-service structure, common to most modern armed forces in the world. This article therefore mostly disregards official claims, and looks only at kills confirmed either by A) self-reported losses; or B) videos or photos proving an aircraft was shot down/destroyed; combined with C) a claim the loss occurred in air-to-air combat. The U.S. Department of Defense estimated that Russia was losing about 50 vehicles per day. Some analysts believe the number is at least 22 aircraft, including several Su-25 attack planes,. Russia has more than 15,857 armored fighting vehicles, for example, to Ukraine's 3,309. Su-25SM "Red 04" (RF-91958) downed near Chernihiv, pilot KIA on ground after successfully ejecting. So Ukraine's Allies Sent Three Replacements", "Russia says helicopter downed near Mariupol was headed to evacuate Azov unit leaders", "Guerra Ukrania: 15 soldados Ucranianos mueren al Rusia derribar su helicoptero en Maripol", " Telegram- ()", "Ukraine Situation Report: NATO Says Russia Is Repositioning, Not Withdrawing", " -8 ", "Inside Ukraine's Daring Helicopter Missions Into Russian-Occupied Mariupol", "Russia Has Shot Down A Second TB-2. An assessment by the US earlier this week suggested 5,000 to 6,000 Russian troops had been killed and 2,000 to 4,000 . Sinad Baker. Technically, the Su-25 and Su-34 can carry air-to-air missiles for self-defense, but there's little evidence they're being armed with those missiles. On the balance, that means Russia's air force can't press its advantage into Ukrainian-defended airspace to claim air superiority. 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