Ukraine's Defense Intelligence says its forces have shot down a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea, sharing a video of the apparent strike.
Early on Wednesday, a Ukrainian special forces unit fired a man-portable air defense system, or MANPADS, at the Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM, which crashed into the sea around 44 miles northwest of Cape Tarkhankut in western Crimea, officials said in a Telegram post.
According to the DI officials, it belonged to the 43rd Separate Naval Aviation Regiment of the Russian army, and was based out of Saki airbase (or Novofedorovka) in western Crimea. While Crimean Wind first said the plane was based out of Krymsk, in Russia's Krasnodar, it then updated a post to say it was from Saki.
The accompanying video shows aerial images before switching to what appears to be the MANPADS' targeting view, with a fighter jet flying into its crosshairs. It said a telltale streak of jet fuel was found on the water, as well as parts of the plane's wreckage.
The outlet reported the source as saying that the jet had been accompanied by a Su-35, and that the Su-30 launched four Kh-31P missiles while in the air, before vanishing off the radar. The Su-30SM used the Su-35 ECM shadow. It shows that Su-30SM and Su-35S still use the Crimea air bases.
The outlet reported the source as saying that the jet had been accompanied by a Su-35, and that the Su-30 launched four Kh-31P missiles while in the air, before vanishing off the radar.
Oryx, an open-source intelligence site that uses visual evidence to track weaponry losses, says it has confirmed the loss of 11 Russian Su-30s since February 2022. They are certainly more. Oryx are for example not counting Su-30SM losses on Russian ground.
The 43rd Separate Naval Aviation Regiment is a part Russian of the Russian Navy. They have lost several on missile or drone attacks on the Novofedorovka air base. Other bases of the Russian Navys Su-30SM are Kaliningrad Chernyakovsk and Murmansk Severomorsk-1 and Severomorsk-3 air bases. Aircraft from these bases are certainly also partcipating from the Novofedorovka base.
One Russian Navy Su-30 lost over the Black Sea with the loss of both crews.
While the aircraft is said to have been involved in a mission related to the war, the cause of the crash is not clear. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/421823
New attack against Borisoglebsk air base. Borisoglebsk is placed near Voronezh air base, and close to the war zones in Ukraine.
One base were 1 squadron of Su-34 (ca 12 aircraft), 1 squadron of Su-30SM (ca 12 aircraft) and 1 squadron of Su-25 (ca 12 aircraft).
The base was satellite pictured before and after the attack. Videos taken during the attack of people living close shows very heavy burning and explosions. After the attack very much burning on asfalt and grass around the parking places of Su-34 and Su-30SM. This places was the direction of the bombing.
Also bombing of the pilots living areas.
The Russian air force have a direction to take away burnt and hitted aircraft from attacks, to hide the effects of the bombings.
A russian air regiment has been transferred to Privolzhskiy air base west of Astrakhan (46.2335-47.5319). Satellite picture.
The regiment consist of 12 Su-30SM, 12 Su-35S and 4 MiG-31I or K. The air base is one the largest on Russian ground. The clearing line has 50 places of which 36 are connected to the fuel infra-structure. Large weapons storage areas.
The fuel infra-structure has several large areas.
A radar batalion on base has 10 large radars and 10 other radars.
Privolzhskiy air base former 24 MiG-29 are put in storage.
