"Tonight in the territory of the Kursk region (RF), during the performance of a combat mission, forces and means of anti-aircraft missile troops of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a Russian fighter-bomber of SU-34 was destroyed,"-the message reads. The General Staff added that the work on the elimination of occupiers, their equipment and weapons "continues". Su-34 is the Russian modernization of the Su-27 fighter. The aircraft has been in serial production since 2008.
It was created to replace the Su-24 bomber. The development of the SU-34 began in the USSR and continued in independent Russia. Su-34 was adopted by the Russian Air Force forces of the Russian Federation in 2014. According to GUR, the Russian Federation has more than 100 SU-34. For Ukraine, the main threat from the Su-34 is the airbag. The Russians were able to improve the Soviet inaccurate bombs by integrating the module of glider and correction (UMPC).
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