This week the Ukraine Army has achieved a historical fact: they have achieved Drain two Bimotor Russian combat aircraft with its new naval drones, a kind of unmanned boats and armed with air-air missiles.
This is the so-called ‘Magura-7’, an improved version of the ‘Magura V5’of Ukrainian manufacture. The medium ‘defense Express’, which closely follows everything related to the armament and war technologies in the Ukraine War, reported the novelty of the case.
As Naval News shared, these Magura-7 are a variant of USV (“non-manned surface vehicle”, for its acronym in English) than It has fixed rails to be able to launch anti -aircraft missile. So far, the existence of this new version of the naval drones that Ukraine is using in the Black Sea was not known.
The V5 version, however, were only armed with explosive loads and have been used as suicidal drones’ against Russian vessels located in the Black Sea. Three of these new Magura-7 would have managed to tear down two Russian hunting (SU-27 and SU-30 Flanker) through AIM-9 American guided missile missiles, which are monitored by infrared.
The feat has been narrated by the newspaper Suspilne Crimea. For several days, the Ukrainian defense forces studied the movements of the Russian fighters, which make specific patrol routes along the Coast of Novorosíisk (Russia), beyond the Crimean Peninsula. Using a marine drone as a lure, the Ukrainians dropped the enemy airplanes into their trap.
when the first of these boats caused her to chase her in the open sea, the other two fired their missiles, reaching both fighters. Only the crew of one of them managed to eject and be rescued by civil sailors; The other died.
The high -ranking excapitan and Ukrainian war analyz The American missiles ‘AIM-9 Sidewinder’ were provided as military assistance, and that had already been used in the war between Argentina and Great Britain. Despite not having a range as long as others in his class, they were enough to tear down the fighters of the Russian Army.
In the opinion of the specialist, it is possible that from now on the Russians are more cautious when using aviation against maritime objectives. In addition, he said that This new incorporation will be a great reinforcement of the “mosquito fleet”, the naval drones marine armament that Ukraine has recently used Russian objectives in the Black Sea.
From the official defense and intelligence account of Ukraine, they shared this week a video of the demolition of the Russian fighters by the new Magura-7 naval drones. Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of Intelligence of Defense of Ukraine, described the event as “a historical moment”.
