Ukrainian Defence Inteligence Destroyes Russian Su-30SM Fighter Jet Over The Black Sea Using MANPADS

• 12.09.2024, 8:57

Ukrainian intelligence officers have published a video and shared details.

Ukrainian intelligence officers have destroyed a Russian Su-30SM aircraft in the Black Sea. They hit the aircraft on board using MANPADS.

The GUR (Ukrainian Defence Intelligence) reported.

“During an operation in the Black Sea, soldiers of the special unit of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30SM combat aircraft using a MANPADS,” the report reads.

What is known about the aircraft

The fighter jet that fell into the sea belonged to the 43rd separate naval aviation regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which is based at the airfield in the city of Saki in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

The cost of such an aircraft is approximately 50 million dollars.

"Disappearance" of the Su-30SM aircraft

The occupiers lost contact with their combat aircraft on September 11, 2015 at about 5 a.m. Approximately three hours later, the Russians began a search and rescue operation involving an An-26 aircraft, as well as Mi-8 and Ka-27 helicopters.

"At lunchtime, the invaders reported to the command about a characteristic spot of aviation fuel discovered in the sea, 70 kilometers northwest of Cape Tarkhankut, and soon they saw the wreckage of the destroyed Su-30SM," the GUR added.