It is noted that this is the first case when fighters were shot down by unmanned boats, and the first use of the AIM-9 missile from an unmanned boat to destroy the enemy.
“This is a historical moment,” Budanov said.
Earlier, one shot down was reported, the GUR MO published a video of the blow. According to Budanov, there is no video or images of the defeat of the second aircraft.
According to the head of the GUR MO, the military used three Magura-7 unmanned boats for attacks, two of which shot at aircraft. Magura-7 is a magura-5 option for air defense, he explained, refusing to go into details about the difference between them.
Budanov said that the crew of the First Su-30 survived and was selected in the Black Sea by a civilian ship. According to preliminary data, the crew of the second aircraft died, he added.
According to him, the GUR began installing AIM-9 on unmanned boats in January. He did not comment on whether this was the first time that they were released on the target from the unmanned aerial vehicle. Earlier, the Soviet-to-air missiles were used on Ukrainian unmanned boats, the publication writes. According to Budanov, several missile models are used on Magura-7 drones, but the AIM-9 gives the best results.
Context
The Ukrainian naval drones Magura V5 in the summer of 2023 presented at the exhibition of defense industry in Istanbul (Türkiye). The creators of the drone say that it can move at a speed of up to 77 km/h and have a useful load of up to 320 kg.
The surface drones of the GUR made a number of attacks on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, as a result of which the vessels were damaged or destroyed. In particular, the Magura V5 caused damage to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation by $ 500 million, the representative of the GUR MO Andrei Yusov said on May 10, 2024.
On June 14, military intelligence reported that Magura V5 has already installed air-air-73 air missiles. According to the military, shock sea drones equipped with such missiles were already used during combat operations in the Black Sea.
In July, the Polish magazine Political Science and Security Studies Journal published a study according to which the drones of the Magura v5 The most Russian ships were sunk in the Black Sea.
On December 31, the GUR MO reported that the Ukrainian sea drones of the Magura V5 in the area of Cape Tarkhankut in the west of the Crimean Peninsula temporarily captured by the Russian Federation first destroyed the air target of the occupiers.
