🚀 The Russian Aerospace Forces have officially fielded the R-77M active radar-guided air-to-air missile, as confirmed by a newly released photo showing a Su-35S fighter armed with two of the advanced weapons. This marks the first visual proof of the missile’s operational deployment. The R-77M’s arrival has been over a decade in the making, and its absence has long been seen as a weakness in Russia’s air combat arsenal. Until now, Russian fighters have relied on the older R-77-1, which left them lagging behind U.S., Chinese, and even European air forces in long-range engagement capability.The new missile is considered a direct counterpart to the Chinese PL-15 and the American AIM-120D , European Meteor, with an engagement range of approximately 100 miles (160 km). In this video, Defense Updates analyzes how Russia is aiming to bridge the air to air capability gap with R-77M ?#defenseupdates #R77Mmissile #usvsrussia Chapters:0:00 TITLE00:11 INTRODUCTION01:14 SPONSORSHIP – NordVPN01:48 BACKGROUND03:42 R-77M05:14 ANALYSIS