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Ukrainian "Strizh" was landed in a field, preventing it from hitting the Aerospace Forces base near Simferopol

A drone was shot down near the town of Gvardeiskoye near Simferopol, where the Aerospace Forces air regiment is based. The device fell into a field, raising clouds of smoke high, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The explosion was felt in the northwestern part of Simferopol and the nearest suburbs. The closest place to it was the village of Sofievka, where windows were broken in some houses. The head of the administration of the Gvardeysky rural settlement, Igor Chichkin, confirmed that he was...

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Ukraine probes Russian air defense before massive air attack

A Ukrainian drone exploded in the city of Kireyevsky, Tula region. It was a Soviet Tu-141 Swift, flying at a speed of 1000 km/h. Political scientist Sergei Karnaukhov explains that the Swifts’ flight program can include maneuvering at ultra-low altitudes, so the enemy object managed to overcome long distances over Russian territory and remain unnoticed by air defense. “The Pole-21 electronic warfare complex carried out an impact...

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“Their targets may be beyond the Ural Mountains”: the Ukrainian Armed Forces now have dangerous drones

Combat drones with a flight range of about two thousand kilometers have appeared in the arsenal of Ukrainian formations. A military expert, retired colonel Vladimir Popov, who served in the air defense forces, stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He agrees with the opinion that the recent attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian military airfields with strategic bombers was carried out by a Soviet-made Tu-141 Strizh UAV. “During the times of the USSR...

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