For the first time in history, a 🇺🇦Ukrainian F-16 fighter destroyed 6 🇷🇺cruise missiles in one sortie, - former spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Ignat
According to the former spokesman for the Air Force, our pilot showed such a result during a massive attack on December 13, 2024.
More context:
The Ukrainian technological advances in drone warfare reached another milestone. Only days after downing at least 2 Russian helicopters, Ukrainian USVs launched UAVs against Russian coastal air defense systems. During this operation two Pantsir-S1 and one 9K33 Osa was struck.
The first operation of that kind was reported one month ago, but this strike shows the capabilities and efficiencies of Ukrainian drone warfare, where valuable and expensive air defense assets worth $50 million of the Russian army get eliminated with an invest, which make up only a fraction of it. It also further exposes Russian defenses along the Black Sea coast
That's impressive:
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, "says Ukrainian unmanned system operators successfully targeted over 54,000 russian assets during the month. Importantly, 49% of targets, or approximately 26,500, were taken down by kamikaze drones.
He specifically praised the Birds of the Magyar (aka Kryla Madiara) unit led by Major Robert Brovdy, which evolved from a drone operators company into the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Aerial Systems within a year.
Among the UAV units, remarkably high effectiveness was demonstrated by:
the unmanned systems detachment of the 46th airmobile brigade;
the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade;
the 28th Mechanized Brigade;
the 35th Marine Brigade;
the 3rd Assault Brigade."
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