SU30-SM
that will never fly again...
Board number
RF81771
Plane wreckage found
49,10456° N, 37,25246° E
Who "landed"
80th Air Assault Brigade and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine
Period
May 2022
In the Kharkiv region, a downed Russian Su-30SM multirole fighter was identified.
Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko shared photos of the wreckage, likely from a jet downed in the spring on the Izium front.The debris revealed the aircraft’s tail number, RF81771.
The Russian Su-30SM fighter jet belonged to the 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces.The Su-30SM is a two-seater aircraft primarily adapted for ground-target missions. It is also designed for air superiority, long-range patrols, escorting long-range aviation, radar surveillance, targeting, and control operations.
Captured
At that time, Sergey Kosyk, deputy commander of the 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, was captured.
This regiment had been bombing Kharkiv from the first days of the war.
The fighter jet can deploy both “air-to-air” and “air-to-surface” weaponry.The first contracts for the supply of Su-30SM jets were signed between the Russian Ministry of Defense and Irkut Corporation in 2012.
Confirmation
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