The AC-130U “Spooky” gunship’s chief roles for the Air Force include close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. Rybar, an authoritative Russian military blogger, said: “For comparison, since the beginning of the counter-offensive, the armed forces of Ukraine have not managed to shoot down a single one of our aircraft.John Burwell, Business Development Director, Bohemia Interactive Simulations The crews of each of the downed helicopters, apart from those aboard the Ka-52 gunship, walked away, according to Mil Info Live, Russian Telegram channel. The Wagner forces were reportedly armed with a Strela-10 air defence system, a Soviet-era surface-to-air missile system, reportedly used to engage the Russian helicopters.Īn Mi-8 transport helicopter and Mi-35 gunship were also brought down. Two more of the aircraft were said to have been shot down in the Wagner march on Moscow, which ended when Prigozhin brokered a deal to end the situation. An aerial image of the scene appeared to show the aircraft flattened on the ground, only its rotors and tail still intact. A Russian Mi-8MTPR-1, a scarcely-available electronic warfare helicopter, was also reportedly downed by Wagner force near the village of Pavlovsk in the Voronezh region.įootage of the apparent crash site showed a plume of thick black smoke rising into the blue skies above the rural area in southern Russia.
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