For the first time, the anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, in cooperation with the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, destroyed the long-range strategic bomber Tu-22M3 – the carrier of X-22 cruise missiles. It’s confirmed that it was shot down

by IgorVozMkUA

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  1. During today’s attack, two such missiles (X-22) were destroyed for the first time.
    Ukraine needs more means, more missiles, in order to better protect the frontline territories from Russian terrorism.

    As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 29 air targets were destroyed:
    – 2 X-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles;
    – 14 UAVs of the “Shahed-131/136” type;
    – 11 X-59/Kh-69 guided air missiles;
    – 2 X-22 cruise missiles.

  3. No confirmation as to what shot it down yet. Could just as likely be Ivan with a bottle of Vodka in one hand and an S-300 fire control button in the other, which is almost better. Imagine being an Orc pilot and being like “I’m not flying over my own country’s airspace, I might get shot down by a drunk mobik!”

  4. Just give me a few dozen RIM-174 Standard ERAMs, a couple of big rigs and a couple of MK 70 Payload Delivery System (PDS) containers, and we’ll clean up those high value air assets. How are the A-50 flights going?

    Pure speculation, but you could use cooperative engagement capability and this type of kit, or even targeting data from NATO assets to make life interesting but brief for Russian military aviation.

  6. It is by no means confirmed that it was shot down. Image says “destroyed”, not “shot down”. There are ways to take plane down aside from actually shooting it down – sabotage, etc.
    How it was done is the question. Operative with a manpad deep in russia around the route this plane takes to the firing position? Was it low enough for a manpad to reach? A spy in russian air defense? Some sabotage on the plane?

  7. fantastic news. hopefully the money for the ejection seats was siphoned off by putins pals

  9. Who knows what really happened to the plane.. one thing is for sure and that’s that there are plenty of Ukrainian agents in the Russian army. They might have something to do with these frequent „friendly fire incidents“

  10. Go get some more shit out of the air. Hopefully we decide that we can support you more then ever. Also with troops to blast the basterds out of your country.

  11. Any idea how many Russia has of the tu-22m3 and wasn’t that the aircraft plant that was recently struck?

  14. Do we know how many of these flying ladas the toilet thieves have? Hopefully the crew went down with it.

    My money is on engine fire due to it being overloaded with stolen toilets.

  15. So we had a couple of long range radars that got struck in the recent days. I wonder if there’s a connection between these events

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