Russian Advanced A-50 Spy Plane Hit in Strike on Aircraft Factory: Kyiv

Newsweek ^ | 10 March 2024 | Ellie Cook

[Apparatchik]

Ukrainian forces "destroyed or heavily damaged" one of Russia's prized but scarce A-50 spy planes, according to a Ukrainian official, after Kyiv targeted an aviation plant in southern Russia.

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its air defenses had intercepted 47 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, including 41 over the southwestern Rostov region.

Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region, said Kyiv launched a "massive UAV (uncrewed aerial vehicle) attack" on the city of Taganrog, east of the captured Ukrainian city of Mariupol and west of Rostov-on-Don.

Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian drones struck a plant in the city that repaired A-50 spy planes, as well as a nearby airfield. The attack came in "several waves," influential channel Fighterbomber wrote on Saturday.

[kiryandil]

It must suck to be you.

[Magic Fingers]

“Just ok some old weapons to be sent and the purchase of new / upgraded ones for our military...”

How nice! So there’s no cost, then?

[guest7]

"There was a second A-50 in the hangar that was also destroyed in the attack."

Yes but, it couldn't fly. All of its good parts were put on the first A-50, so "it" could fly.

Hopefully...