Friday, May 2, a Ukrainian naval drone Magura V7 shot down over the Black Sea a Russian war plane, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services.
A completely new strike, comment on the experts.
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The scene took place above the Black Sea, Friday May 2. A Ukrainian naval drone Magura V7 would have shot down a Russian war plane in an unprecedented fight. “For the first time in the world, our warriors destroyed an enemy fighting plane thanks to a Naval Magura drone”, claimed Ukrainian military intelligence, which identified the apparatus shot as a SUKHOI SU-30. “The Russian aggressor’s fighter airplane caught fire in the air and finally damaged at sea”he continued.
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In a video broadcast on YouTube by Ukrainian military intelligence, you can see a shooting pipe from the naval drone. The target, obviously struck by the missile, then fell into the ocean. “Having slaughtered planes is not a novelty. But this time, we are not with a heavy terrestrial system, we are not with an air-to-air system, and we are not on an airplane that would have been shot on the ground”indicates on LCI Xavier Tytelman, former military aviator.
“It’s a drone navalon which they adapted anti -aircraft missiles guided by infrared, and above all, the Russian plane is not able to protect itself from a relatively basic system “, underlines the aeronautical and defense specialist.
Drones are changing the war
Arthur Kenigsberg, specialist in central Europe
Ukrainian military intelligence services also said that the other Russian SU-30 would have been shot by a Magura V7. For its part, Moscow confirmed the destruction of a single device. “A priori, they are able to detect a departure. They can see a kind of bright flash. Logically, they must emit hot ball shapes, warmer than their own engine, having to attract the missile. There, it did not work”deduces Xavier Tytelman.
The shot, so close to a militarily strategic area for Russia, represents a strong signal from Ukraine. “They took an opportunity. We know that the Ukrainians do the day before with the Magura in the Black Sea. There is an countless fisherman who say they are fishing in the Black Sea and see Ukrainian drones being in standby”indicates on LCI Arthur Kenigsberg, specialist in central Europe. “We can see how the Ukrainians have the advantage of technological innovation, and we see how the drones are changing the war”, he continues.
