Clarification is required on the report that a Ukrainian suicide drone destroyed two Russian Tu-22M3 bomber during a raid on the facility.
In the Kaluga region of Russia, a suicide drone from Ukraine reportedly detonated on October 7, 2022, according to international media. Two Tu-22M3 Backfire supersonic bombers that were parked on the runway were struck by the drone, according to Military Watch, and they sustained too much damage for them to be salvaged. The Shaykovka base is situated 273 kilometers from Moscow and 225 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. According to sources, a special operations unit of the Ukrainian military was responsible for the strike.
Furthermore, there is no specific information available regarding the kind of drone suicide. Russia’s claim that it had discovered a group of UAVs coming from the Ukrainian side of the border largely corroborated what the media had reported. Russian media, however, refuted any harm that the Ukrainian drone may have done to them. An effort was made to assault the Shaykovka airbase, but the drone was shot down on the base, according to an anonymous source in Moscow. Vladislav Shapsha, the governor of the Kaluga region, stated that no infrastructure was harmed by the Ukrainian drone, no base workers were hurt, and Russia has launched an investigation into the incident.
The Drive asserts that they are presently unable to verify the veracity of any of the statements. But Ukraine has recently shown that it is capable of attacking targets within Russian territory. The episode at the Belgorod ammo storage, which was destroyed by Ukrainian forces, must still be fresh in the minds of many. An oil refinery in the same location had previously been attacked by a Ukrainian attack chopper. The episode at the Belgorod ammo storage, which was destroyed by Ukrainian forces, must still be fresh in the minds of many. An oil refinery in the same location had previously been attacked by a Ukrainian attack chopper.
These are only unmanned attack vehicles with a tiny footprint, a very short range, and no capability to travel hundreds of miles to reach the Shaykovka airbase in Russia’s Kaluga region. One additional thing that deserves attention is that the aforementioned information was released not long after the Russian Aerospace Forces started using Tu-22M3 supersonic bombers to attack targets in the Ukraine once again as of August 2022. The Tu-22M3 continued to launch Kh-22 cruise missiles at its targets in the most recent bombing raids without any interference from hostile air defenses. The distribution of the aforementioned information by the Ukrainian side as a psychological tactic to demonstrate that they “retaliated” on the air attack vehicle deployed by the Russian army is not entirely ruled out.
According to analysts, when numerous new types of missiles are tested in the near future, more combat activities of Russian long-range bombers will be observed.
