File image.
The Russian military has destroyed another Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The MiG-29 was refueling and loading armament on the ground at the Dnipro International Airport when it was struck with an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile with a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead. Video footage of the strike was posted to social networks on November 23.
Russian media said that the missile strike destroyed the fighter jet and left some 15 officers and engineers of the UAF dead or wounded.
The Iskander-M missile used to hit the fighter jet has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Some 40 MiG-29A, MiG-29S, MiG-29MU1 and MiG-29MU2 were in service with the UAF before the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago. Last year, Ukraine also received at least 27 MiG-29G and MiG-29AS from Poland and Slovakia. The Russian military has already shot down many of these fighter jets or destroyed them on the ground.
The Russian military stepped up strikes on high-value Ukrainian military targets behind the frontline in recent months, mainly using Iskander-M missiles.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
how do you translate nato to spanish nowadays? : derrrota estrategica looo000ooosers.
no va a pasar nada.
when i see this video i am surprised that ukraine can get any plane still in the air. but maybe rf just needs some enemy jets operational for live training✌️🤫💪
new burger at macdonalds–oreshnik…tastes best with humble pie