The hail of three thousand grenades ATACMS destroyed the most dangerous planes in the Crimea - Forbes

Most of the Russians were lost in May 2023, when the Patriot Patriot Battery of the Ukrainian Air Force knocked down at least four, and possibly five Russian fighter jets and helicopters. Belbek housed Su-27 or Su-30 fighters, as well as MiG-31 fighters and, apparently, the MiG-29K fighter jets. MiG-31 are considered to be one of the most dangerous combat aircraft in a full-scale war. The Belbek aerodrome is protected by the C-400 Air Force anti-aircraft missile systems.

However, it is obvious that the C-400 misses the same number of Ukrainian ammunition, as they intercepts, journalists say. On Tuesday, the Armed Forces launched ATCMS M39A1 missiles from the tracked launcher M270 MLRS or from wheel Himars. M39A1 is a farm version of M39 ATCMS (160 km). In the first party of high -precision ATACMS systems, which the US was sent to Ukraine last fall, were only M39. The second party of more than 100 rockets - at least a few M39A1.

M39 scatters about a thousand bombs from a grenade. In M39, the size of the warhead is smaller but more powerful, only 300 small bombs are scattered. According to one popular Russian militarykra, on Tuesday Ukrainians released 10 -tonne systems of ATACMS on Belbek. Belbek is outside the reach of M39, but M39A1 can reach it. This means that about 3000 bombs were released on the air base. The damage is large-scale: the radar and two starting installations of the C-400 battery were destroyed.

The composition of the fuel burned all night. The Russian troops argued that the MiG-31 and three Su-27 only damaged, but Maxar satellite images indicate another. The pictures show that two MiG-31, Su-27 or similar Su-30 and, apparently, MiG-29K burned down. This is the first time during a full-scale invasion when the Russians lost MiG-31 or MiG-29K. Russian commentators have become angry after the scale of losses became obvious.