Russia’s S-400 long range air defence system has reportedly seen its first combat and gained its first kill during the country’s military intervention in Ukraine, engaging and neutralising a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter near the country’s capital Kiev according to a number of reports. The shootdown reportedly took place […]
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On March 5 the first ever combat loss of Russia’s prime strike fighter the Su-34 was confirmed to have taken place over Ukraine, with footage showing the aircraft with tail number 24 was brought down. The fighter’s pilot, reportedly a Major Krasnoruchev, was taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces in the […]
Four Su-27 Flankers Shot Down Over Western Ukraine in March 5 Battle: Which Russian Asset Could Have Done It?
On the evening of March 5 it was reported that the Ukrainian Air Force had taken unprecedented losses in air to air engagements, with Russian ground based air defences shooting down an Mi-8 helicopter, Su-25 attack jet and Bayraktar drone while four of Ukraine’s top fighters, the elite Su-27 Flankers, […]
Su-27 Flanker Sees First Ever Losses in Air to Air Combat: Four Shot Down in Massive Battle Over Zhytomir
Amid ongoing operations by the Russian Military on the territory of neighbouring Ukraine, the largest air battle of the conflict on March 5 reportedly saw four Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets shot down in an air battle around the western Ukrainian city of Zhytomir. While it was specified that Russian […]
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The American F-35A and French Rafale fighter jets have from the late 2010s emerged as leading competitors among Western combat aircraft for export contracts across much of the world, with the two competing directly against one another in many of the same markets ranging from Belgium and Switzerland to the […]