"The Armed Forces were first used by Patriot systems in guerrilla mode," - Eugene Wild about the knocking down of Russian aircraft (video)

So, we can conclude that the unique A-50's long-range aircraft was shot down, and the IL-22 air headquarters was badly damaged by the efforts of Ukrainian air defense. This was stated in an interview with Focus by the ATO veteran and military observer Yevgeny Dyky. He notes that the planes were flying at height near 12 kilometers, and there are no fighters of the Armed Forces. Moreover, two planes were knocked down at once, which means that the air defense knew for what purpose she fired.

"And there is also a question: what the aircraft of the invaders could confuse these planes? To knock down only one aircraft, they could at least disappear from it and say that the plane simply "broke" and no one knocked it down. " But the command of the Russian Federation has now had to make a difficult choice: to recognize the successful and professional work of Ukraine's air defense, or to blame everything on the "cruscy" of its own air defense, notes the ATO veteran.

As we can see, they decided to pour dirt on their own troops not to recognize the advantage of the Armed Forces, and Eugene Wild. The expert says that the Patriot system is close to 160 km, and the planes were attacked at a distance of 137 km, that is, Patriots could be 20 km from the front line. It was a very risky position, because if the enemy noticed it, it could easily be destroyed.

Although the version with the use of the American system has not yet been confirmed, there is no doubt that it was a long-range anti-aircraft missile because Il-22, which still pulled into the airfield, had similar damage from such ammunition. "Despite the widespread imagination, the anti -aircraft missile does not get on the plane at all, but explodes near it," says Eugene Dyky.

"As a result of the explosion, thousands of small debris are stitched the plane through and damaged it as much as possible, making a kind of" colander "from the corps. Similar injuries are just characteristic of anti-aircraft missiles, but IL-22 was able to reach the airfield due to the fact that the rocket exploded near its tail part, notes the military observer.

According to him, in general it could be that the air defense fired with one missile, just the remains of it were damaged by IL-22, and A-50 was destroyed. Eugene Dyky notes that thanks to the successful recent operations for the destruction of enemy aircraft, Ukraine has worked for the first time in the world the use of Patriot systems in a kind of "guerrilla".

Usually, this American weapon is deployed for several months in one place, which makes it very vulnerable, and Ukrainians have been able to transfer their air defense from the first days to the war in a movable regime, so it is very difficult to impress, emphasizes the veteran of the ATO. Earlier, Focus said that Ukraine, together with the United States, modernized the Soviet complexes of the C-300, so A-50 could knock down such a missile.