Russian Su-34 takes a hit from Ukrainian UAV

A squadron of Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers is said to have suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Marinovka base.

A new Western intelligence assessment recently said that Ukrainian forces launched an attack on Marinovka Air Base in Russia's Volgograd region. Photo: @ Army Recognition.

The UK Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update that confirmed some details of the attack, and that Russia uses Marinovka Air Base for daily combat operations, but it also serves as a shelter for dispersed fighter jets from other air bases under threat. Photo: @CyberBoroshno (kiber_boroshno / Telegram).

Specifically, on the night of June 27, a drone attack carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) successfully targeted an aircraft at the Marinovka Air Base in the Volgograd region. Photo: @CyberBoroshno (kiber_boroshno / Telegram).

Satellite imagery confirms that the attack destroyed two Russian Su-34 attack aircraft and damaged two others. Photo: @CyberBoroshno (kiber_boroshno / Telegram).

Ukraine also noted that these drone attacks also caused a fire in the maintenance and repair area of Marinovka Air Base. Photo: @rostec.ru.

The assault on Marinovka was a joint operation conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in coordination with the Special Operations Forces and other units of the Ukrainian military. Photo: @rostec.ru.

The attack came ahead of a Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) attack on Kirovske Airport on the disputed Crimean Peninsula on the night of June 28, which destroyed several helicopters including at least one Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter. Photo: @ Army Recognition.

In fact, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) stepped up drone attacks on Russian airfields in June, and was also responsible for launching Operation Spider Web in early June, in which drone strikes destroyed at least seven high-value Russian strategic bombers at air bases across the country, including unprecedentedly deep into Siberia, more than 4,000km from the Ukrainian border. Photo: @CyberBoroshno (kiber_boroshno / Telegram).

And the Su-34 suffered more losses than any other Russian fighter jet during the Russo-Ukrainian War, due to its role as the mainstay of the Russian Aerospace Forces to attack Ukraine's more vulnerable and frontline positions. Photo: @Wikipedia.

Attacks on Russian airfields with Su-34s in particular are not unprecedented. On June 13, 2024, several Su-34s were damaged in a major drone attack on Morosovsk Airport in Russia’s Rostov region, some 250 kilometers from the front line. Photo: @MT_Anderson.

The attacks on Russia's Su-34s are understandable, as the Su-34 "Fullback" fleet is a serious problem for Ukraine. Photo: @ Мілітарний.

Because Russia equips these aircraft with highly destructive glide bombs and uses them to cause terrible devastation. Meanwhile, the Russian defense industry produces glide bombs of various sizes, some weighing up to 2,721 kg, which are very destructive upon impact. Photo: @ Blog Before Flight.

Russia relies on its Su-34 fleet to carry out “a large number of daily glide bombing sorties” across the front lines in Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence said, adding that Moscow has now lost more than 30 of the aircraft since full-scale hostilities between Russia and Ukraine began in February 2022. Photo: @УНН.

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