Servicemen of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out another attack on the targets of the army of the aggressor country russia in occupied Crimea. Two aircraft and one helicopter of the occupiers were hit.
The Defense Intelligence press service reported this today, September 22.
The operation was carried out by fighters of the Prymary (Ghosts) special unit, using strike drones. The locations where the strike was carried out are not specified.
In the video published by the Defense Intelligence, you can see that drones hit two Be-12 "Chaika" anti-submarine amphibious aircraft. Also, reconnaissance aircraft struck a multi-purpose Mi-8 helicopter of the occupiers.
The Defense Intelligence fighters hit a russian multi-purpose Mi-8 helicopter in the occupied Crimea. Photo: screenshot.
The Defense Intelligence emphasized that this was the first case of hitting the Be-12 aircraft since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The agency added that the Be-12 aircraft are equipped with expensive equipment for detecting and combating submarines.
The Defense Intelligence fighters hit the Be-12 Chaika aircraft: what is known about them
The Be-12 Chaika is an amphibious anti-submarine aircraft that was developed in the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1965. The creation of the aircraft was due to the lack of its own anti-submarine aircraft in the USSR army.
In addition to equipment for detecting submarines, these aircraft can be equipped with anti-submarine bombs and torpedoes.
A total of 143 such aircraft were produced. It is known from open sources that as of 2024, 6 Be-12 aircraft were in service with the russian Navy.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, yesterday, September 21, it became known that the Prymary unit of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine hit three Mi-8 helicopters in the occupied Crimea. The scouts also attacked an expensive russian radar station.
We will remind, on September 19, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Defense Intelligence reported that the scouts landed on the Tendra Spit in the occupied part of the Kherson Region. They set up minefields, on one of which exploded a russian multi-purpose tractor.
We also wrote that on September 10, Defense Intelligence fighters hit an occupier reconnaissance ship in the Novorossiysk Oblast in the south of the Krasnodar Krai of the russian federation.
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