2023-10-25 10:46:15
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian military, using new systems, shot down 24 combat aircraft of the Ukrainian air force in five days. He spoke about this during a meeting with military personnel in the Northern Military District zone on October 25.
According to Shoigu, the Russian army has used new anti-aircraft missile systems. “We have complexes that shot down twenty-four aircraft in five days,” said the Minister of Defense.
As clarified TASS with reference to a source close to the military department, we are talking about the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system in tandem with the A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft.
The modernized A-50U aircraft was handed over to the Russian Army by Rostec at the end of September. reported press service of the state corporation. As the company said in a statement, the aircraft can detect new types of aircraft, and is also able to quickly find air, ground and sea targets and track a large number of them at the same time.
In total, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Defense, 511 Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft have been destroyed since the beginning of the special operation.
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