"Falling near the farm": all the details of the beating of Russian TU-22M3 (photo, video)

The head of the GUR MO Kirill Budanov stated that this time Ukraine applied what she did from scratch of the old components. The means of damage did not name the intelligence leader, but stressed that the TU-22M3 was shot down by the same means that was destroyed in the A-50 air.

On the night of April 18 to 19, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, together with the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, for the first time during the full-scale invasion of Russian occupation troops into the territory of Ukraine, the Far Strategic Bombarder TU-22M3, which is the carriage of the winged missiles of the type X-22, was destroyed. The focus has collected all the information about this unique case.

At 7:23, the Russian edition of Baza released photos of a downed plane and reported that in the Stavropol region in the territory of the Red Guard district, a plane of the Air Force of Russia fell on the ground during the flight. In the morning, Baza referred to the words of the head of this region Vladimir Vladimirov, who had stated that the pilots.

The publication did not specify what the plane was shot down, but at 7:45 the video of the plane fall, as well as additional information about the incident. "Tu22m3 aircraft fell near the Bogomolov Stavropol Territory. There were four pilots aboard the fallen plane," Baza wrote. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed that a strategic bomber of TU-22m3 fell on Stavropol.

In the Russian department, they said that he was returning from a combat mission, and the reason for the fall was indicated by a technical malfunction of the aircraft. However, at about 9am, focus sources in special services reported that the TU-22M3 strategic bomber was attacked with S-200 strategies 300 km from the border of Ukraine. "It is the first strategic aviation aircraft to be destroyed by Ukraine during the flight. It struck Ukraine," the focus interlocutor said.

The Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk confirmed the destruction of the Russian strategic bomber of TU-22M3. According to him, the liquidation of the aircraft was interacted with the Main Directorate of Intelligence. The commander also said that for the first time the Armed Forces managed to knock down the winged X-22 missiles.

The Russian media began to publish other videos of aviation, and the governor of the region Vladimir Vladimirov said that one of the crew members died, closer to 11 am the spokesman of the Air Force, Elijah Yelashi said that the TU-22m3 bombard was beaten for 300 km from Ukraine revenge for attack on Ukrainian cities.

According to him, today's confusion is the first case when the Air Force, together with the MAU Main Directorate and other defense forces, were able to destroy the T-22m3 strategic aviation aircraft. In addition, two supersonic winged X-22 rockets that released this aircraft were also shot down for the first time. At the same time, GUR showed how they were preparing for the elimination of the TU-22M3 bomber. After lunch, the focus published a material in which he told how to knock down the plane.

In particular, our sources reported that the operation was prepared for more than a week, waiting for a convenient moment to damage the bomber. After a successful stroke, another plane flying for TU-22m3 forced to turn around. "The C-200 long-range rocket has shown its work. What has shot down two expensive and functional Russian aircraft-a serious achievement Head of the Armed Forces General Staff, retired Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko.

Towards the evening, the official reaction of the head of the GUR MO Kiril Budanov appeared, who stated that this time Ukraine applied what she did from scratch of the old components. "The engineers worked well, believe me," - said Budanov. He did not name the means of the defeat, but he noted that the TU-22M3 was shot down by the same means that was destroyed in the A-50 air. As of April 20, 2024 it is known that one of the three pilots found died. The fourth pilot continues to look for.

At least that's what Russian authorities report. However, according to the researcher of the Poltava Museum of Heavy Bombard Aviation Gennady Daricaptan, there is a catapult chair KT-1M on the plane, which was developed by the design bureau "Tupolev" and is considered not very reliable. "When catapulting, a compression fracture of the spine may occur when struck. There is a complex system, many exhaust parachutes, stabilizing . . . ", - the expert said.

The dericalptan said that even if the pilots, which catapult, survived, not the fact that they can fly again. TU-22M is a Soviet farmade supersonic bomber-rocket-bearing with changing wing geometry. Designed to defeat maritime and ground targets with winged rockets, aviation bombs, in particular, nuclear warheads. The first TU-22M3 flight was made on June 20, 1977. The cost of the TU-22M3 aircraft is about $ 300 million.

It has been launched in mass production since 1978 at the Gorbunov Kazan Airline. They stopped building an aircraft of this class in 1993. A total of 268 bombers were built. It is not known exactly how many good TU-22m3 is in service with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but they are based on the aerodromes of deer, Swikivka, White and Deagilevo.

The main weapon of the bomber is the anti-ship hypersonic winged rocket X-22H with a lightweight fugas-kumulative warhead capable of making a hole in a ship of 22 square meters and a depth of 12 meters. We will remind, on April 19, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck a rocket strike on the Dnieper. As a result, there are dead and many victims. In particular, a five -storey building was destroyed and the station was damaged. Also recorded in some cities of the region.