Flagship Russian supersonic bomber destroyed in Ukrainian drone strike
D
ramatic images of what Ukraine claims to be the destruction of a Russian long-range bomber have been launched after it was attacked by kamikaze drones, in line with stories.
The Tu-22 has been photographed engulfed in flames on the Soltsy Airfield within the Novgorod area after Ukraine reportedly used a kamikaze drone to destroy the flagship bomber on Saturday.
Tupolev Tu-22 is a supersonic long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau within the Sixties that has been used extensively in assaults on Ukrainian cities, the BBC reports.
The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned the assault resulted in a hearth that was promptly extinguished and induced unspecified injury to 1 aircraft.
But in footage revealed by Ukraine the aircraft is sort of indistinguishable from the firey explosion and black smoke.
“The destroyed Tu-22M3 at the Soltsi airfield after yesterday’s arrival of a kamikaze drone,” learn an accompanying caption to a Telegram post on Sunday.
Russia’s Defence Ministry wrote on Telegram on Saturday that at round 10am Kyiv carried out the assault utilizing a “helicopter-type UAV on a military airfield in the Novgorod region”.
“A fire broke out in the aircraft parking lot on the territory of the airfield, which was quickly extinguished by fire brigades. One plane was damaged, there were no victims as a result,” the assertion learn.
Soltsy-2 is round 400 miles (650km) from the Ukraine border.
Drone air strikes inside Russia have elevated in latest months. One smashed right into a constructing in central Moscow on Friday after Russian air defences shot it down, disrupting air site visitors in any respect civilian airports of the Russian capital.
The Defence Ministry additionally reported an tried assault by an aircraft-type drone on Saturday within the Belgorod area, which now sees such incidents on an virtually day by day foundation. It induced no casualties or injury, the ministry added.
The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned on Tuesday night that the army jammed two Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea on Monday evening.
The drones crashed into the water at round 11pm native time (8pm GMT), 40 kilometres to the northwest from Crimea, the army mentioned in a press release.