Ukrainian air defence models intercepted a Russian guided aerial bomb over the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, 6 February. The Air Drive has identified that this isn’t the primary occasion of Ukrainian forces efficiently capturing down such a weapon.
Supply: Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Workplace of the Ukrainian Air Drive Command, in a remark to Ukrainska Pravda
Particulars: On Friday, social media had been flooded with experiences, citing unnamed sources, that Ukrainian forces had shot down a Russian guided aerial bomb over Zaporizhzhia utilizing an "experimental weapon".
The Ukrainian Air Drive confirmed the destruction of this aerial weapon, which Russia has been more and more utilizing on numerous entrance strains. Nevertheless, they famous that it was not the primary time such an incident had occurred.
Ihnat famous that Russia had dropped nearly 40,000 guided bombs on Ukrainian territory in 2024 alone.
Quote: "Naturally, it is a severe menace and a harmful drive that the enemy makes use of to strike the frontline areas. In consequence, the Air Drive and different branches of the defence forces are using numerous countermeasures in opposition to each guided aerial bombs and enemy tactical plane. Solely a complete strategy, incorporating ground-based air defence and plane, can produce efficient outcomes. The enemy possesses trendy plane and weapons, conducting strikes remotely with out getting into the vary of our air defence operations."
Particulars: The Air Drive didn’t specify what sort of weapon was used to shoot down the guided bomb in Zaporizhzhia.
Background: In an interview launched by the Air Drive, Viking, a pilot of a Ukrainian Su-27 plane, defined that there isn’t any "magic wand" to counter Russian guided aerial bombs, which Russia makes use of 10 occasions greater than Ukraine. The pilot emphasised the necessity for a complete strategy to tackling these weapons: air defence methods, radars, fighter jets, and missiles able to hitting targets at a spread of not less than 100 km are wanted.
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