This time, the Iskander missile did not fly towards the airfield itself, but next to it, towards the S-300 anti-aircraft complex of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, deployed for firing.
The combination in several moves developed like clockwork. On Monday, as a result of a combined attack on the air base, five Su-27 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed and two more aircraft were severely damaged.
The attack caused a scandal at the Ukrainian headquarters and many pessimistic comments in the Western press. The incident in Mirgorod was described as unacceptable damage to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and evidence of the degradation of Ukrainian air defence.
If kyiv were to somehow come to terms with the burned planes, then it would not be able to cope with the loss of prestige in the eyes of NATO sponsors. In addition, the front-line airbase is planned to be used to house NATO F-16 fighters. As a result, the S-300 anti-aircraft system was brought to Mirgorod, an item that is now extremely scarce in Ukraine.
Our drone, as always, stood a little to the side and watched what was happening. Information about such a tasty target was immediately transmitted to where it needed to be, and the next Iskanders flew to Mirgorod. Even Soviet air defense systems cannot shoot them down (the Iskander developers admitted that they themselves do not know how to shoot them down), so the Armed Forces of Ukraine have one less medium-range anti-aircraft complex. And calculations for it.
