Ukrainian fighters using drones attacked the Russian military airfields of Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleika and Borisoglebsk.
Ukraine has carried out the most powerful attack on Russian military airfields since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. Ukrainian fighters using drones attacked the Russian military airfields of Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleysk and Borisoglebsk on the night of August 14. According to Ukrainian media, this was a specially planned operation in order not to be used by Russians use these airfields to launch KAB attacks on the front line and Ukrainian cities.
MiGs won’t fly anymore?
Russian so-called military correspondents wrote on social networks that the strike was effective, and the air defense was unable to protect these facilities. Meanwhile, local public pages wrote about 10 explosions in Savasleyka alone, from where MiGs regularly fly and terrorize the whole of Ukraine with air raid warnings.
“The SBU continues to weaken the aviation part of the Russian military machine. Airplanes are currently giving the enemy an advantage in the air, but we will continue to clip the wings of these “birds”, said the a smart source on SBU in NV.
The distance to Savasleyka from the Ukrainian border is about 660 km in a straight line on Google Maps. Even NASA satellites recorded fires at Savasleika airport.
Will the planes move?
After a series of explosions and fires at the Russian Savasleika airport as a result of a UAV attack, the deployment of the Kh-47 dagger-MiG-31K missile carriers here is now being discussed, writes the Defense Express military channel.
Drones can hit an area where fuel and lubricants are loaded and stored, as evidenced by NASA images. Defense Express emphasizes that the likely destruction of reserves of unique fuel for the MiG-31 – T-6 kerosene – is a rather significant result.
Photos of the consequences of Ukrainian UAV strikes on the Borisoglebsk military airfield in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation also appeared. They showed that the drones hit the northwest side of the airport. In particular, many hangars were destroyed. The Russian Air Force has deployed Su-25, Su-30, Su-34 and Su-35 aircraft at the airport.
Why is this important?
Savasleika is a Russian air base in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where, since the end of 2021, a regiment of MiG-31K aircraft, formed in the same year, armed with Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, is based. It is the 44th separate special-purpose air regiment as part of the Long-Range Aviation Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces (RF Aerospace Forces).
The Kh-47M Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile is a modification of the Iskander system ballistic missile, which is launched from an aircraft. Kinzhal rockets reach speeds 10 times the speed of sound. They are capable of maneuvering in flight, cover a distance of up to 2 thousand km, and can carry both nuclear and conventional ammunition. The flight time of Daggers over Ukrainian cities is only a few minutes, and it is very difficult to shoot them down, so every departure of the MiG-31K – combat or training – is each time accompanied by an air raid warning to everyone of the region of Ukraine.
Savasleika airfield is where all 12 Russian MiG-31K aircraft are based, carrying Daggers.
Source: korrespondent
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