MOSCOW, April 18. /TASS/. Over the past day, Russian air defenses downed one HIMARS projectile and 568 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a report.
Air defenses shot down nine glide bombs, one US-made HIMARS rocket, and 568 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, the report reads.
Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 671 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 284 helicopters, 135,370 unmanned aerial vehicles, 656 surface-to-air missile systems, 28,950 tanks and other armored combat vehicles.
Also Russia neutralized 1,703 multiple rocket launchers, 34,505 field artillery guns and mortars and 59,669 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry concluded.
Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35S multi-role fighter jet boasts the world’s most extensive modern experience of air combats.
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Today it is a fighter with probably the world’s largest modern experience of combat employment against enemy combat aircraft and, apparently, with the biggest record of downed adversary combat planes among all fourth-generation fighters.
The onboard radar station combined with a considerable detection range and air-to-air long-range missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of several hundred kilometers enable the Russian fighter jet to dominate in a modern air combat under the ‘first see, first strike’ scheme.
The target detection and engagement range is crucial for the success of combat operations in the air and the Su-35S is unrivaled in its class in this regard, a military expert said.
The last war on planet Earth B4 it gets recycled.