Efficiently hitting a rock with an egg? Ukrainian drone hits Russian supersonic bomber

Submitted2024.07.28 21:33
Edit2024.07.28 21:33

Zelensky: “Ukraine’s drone program is great… I am afraid of Russia’s army” An unmanned aerial car (drone) attacked a Russian supersonic strategic bomber parked at an airfield. On the twenty seventh (native time), the British Telegraph, citing a Ukrainian army supply, reported {that a} Ukrainian drone shot down a Tupolev (Tu-22M3) supersonic strategic bomber at Olenya Airfield in northern Russia the that day

Olenya Airfield is positioned on the Kola Peninsula in Russia, very near the Finnish border and about 1,770 km from Ukraine.

The Telegraph identified that this can be very uncommon for Ukraine to efficiently assault a Russian bomber with a drone. Airfields within the Saratov and Ryazan areas of south-central Russia had been additionally focused by Ukrainian drone assaults on the identical day, however it’s unclear whether or not the assaults had been profitable.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the assault was a testomony to the excellence of Ukraine’s drone program and that it was spreading worry amongst Russian troopers.

“The aggressors should really feel that that is Ukrainian territory,” he stated, “The destruction of each Russian air base, each Russian army plane, whether or not on the bottom or within the air, is ‘saving Ukrainian lives.’ The Tu-22M3 is a tactical and strategic supersonic bomber developed within the former Soviet Union, and Russia has used this bomber to launch missile assaults towards Ukrainian cities.

The Ukrainian army beforehand stated this was a step taken by Ukraine in response to Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones following the crash of a Tu-22M3 in southern Russia in April.

Earlier than that, final August, a Tu-22M3 bomber parked at an air base in Novgorod Oblast, close to Russia’s second largest metropolis, St. Petersburg, was additionally destroyed by a Ukrainian drone assault.

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