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Western military analysts also told BBC News Russian that video taken of the crash indicated that the aircraft was shot down. [53] France Info reported that according to a French military source, the aircraft was hit by a US-made Patriot air defence battery operated by the Ukrainian army. [9]
– 3 July 1993: Georgian forces shot down a Russia Su-25 over Suchumi. [124] – 4 July 1993: Georgian forces shot down two Russian aircraft one Yak-52 reconnaissance aircraft and a Mi-8T during the Siege of Tkvarcheli. [124] – 4 July 1993: Russian and Abkhazian forces shot down a Georgian Su-25 with a SA-14 fire over Nizhnaya Eshera. [124]
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit by ...
All 26 passengers and crew of the Brazilian aircraft die. 26 February. A Lockheed F-104C Starfighter, 56-0905, of the 436th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 479th Tactical Fighter Wing, hits a mountain 7 NM NNE of airfield during a night approach for landing at Nellis AFB, Nevada. 5 March.
Ukraine says it downed a Russian Su-24 fighter plane over the Black Sea near Snake Island as the aircraft was on its way to attack Odesa region.. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s “sky ...
The air force said it shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones of a total 158 aerial "targets" fired by Russia. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said it was the "most massive air attack of this ...
A UJ-22 Airborne drone was reported shot down by Russian Pantsir S1 air defenses. [373] [374] 2 April: A Bayraktar TB2, serial number T187 was lost in Kherson. [375] [376] 12 April: A Tu-143 drone was shot down over Kharkiv by Russian forces. [377] 12 April: A Leleka-100 reconnaissance drone was shot down by Russian Naval Intelligence forces ...
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...