Russia released a ‘extremely toxic’ video recording the downing of Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 UAV

07/05/2022 15:05 GMT+7

“The Pantsir-S1 complex is designed to provide air and ground defense for the most important facilities, as well as against the operation of UAVs, rockets of multiple rocket launchers and Tochka systems. -U,” said a commander of the Russian air force.

Accordingly, while on a mission, Pantsir-S1 found an aerial target that was a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone. Through intelligent calculation the air threats have been destroyed, the sky is fully controlled and any Ukrainian objects found in the airspace will be destroyed.

On May 3, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov confirmed that Russian air defense systems on Zmiinyi island in the Black Sea, also known as Snake Island, shot down three Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 attack drones.

Konashenkov did not detail the circumstances of the Bayraktar TB2s being shot down. The information was released by the Russian side after the Ukrainian military posted a video of this UAV model hitting two small speedboats in the Black Sea, described by Kiev as a Russian Raptor patrol boat.

It is known that Bayraktar TB2 is the most modern UAV model of the Ukrainian army, provided by Turkey, with a price of up to 5 million USD each. In the early days of the campaign, Ukraine repeatedly posted videos by Bayraktar TB2 recording the raids on Russian military targets.

However, during March and April 2022, similar videos appeared very rarely. Meanwhile, Russian news agencies continuously published images of Bayraktar TB2 being shot down over both Ukraine and Russia, near the border.

At the end of March, Russia confirmed that it had eliminated 35/36 of Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 from combat, but Kiev is said to have replenished some of these aircraft amid the escalation of hostilities.

Meanwhile, according to Russian experts, Pantsir-S1 (NATO designation SA-22 Greyhound) is a short to medium-range artillery and missile system that combines a vehicle mounted with fire control radar and sensors. photoelectricity.

The Pantsir-S1 complex has two 30mm 2A38M dual-barreled cannons and 12 57E6 low-altitude anti-aircraft missiles. Dubbed the “beast”, the Pantsir-S1 is designed to detect and destroy all air targets such as aircraft, helicopters, guided bombs or ballistic missiles flying at an altitude of 5m to 15km in range from 200m to 20km.

Peace (translation summary)