The US Army Colonel told what Ukrainians knocked down Russian A-50U in January (video)

Since the beginning of 2024, two aircraft of the far radar detection of the A-50U, which were used by Russia in the war against Ukraine, have been destroyed. Now it became known what the first of them was shot down. In January 2024, it was Ukraine, not the Russian Federation with a "friendly fire" that shot down the Russian aircraft of a long range of radar detection of A-50U over the Azov Sea.

This was stated by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the 10th Command of the Army of the US Army Colonel Rosanna Clemente, and Osint-analyst John Ridz shared the video in his account in his account. Clemente claims that the calculation of the Ukrainian Patriot SAM was responsible for the defeat and destruction of the Dlo A-50U aircraft. "They probably have #patriot. Some of them are used to protect static objects. Others move and do some truly historical things," the serviceman said.

News about the destruction of the A-50 appeared on January 14. Initially, the information was held in Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels, and then was confirmed by the official statement of the Armed Forces Commissar at that time Valery Zaluzhny. He called it "special operation in the Azov region. " It was immediately reported that the plane worth more than $ 350 million could be attacked by the fire of the Russian air defense, which protects the Kerch bridge.

For a long time, analysts could not understand how one of the rare sides of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was knocked down. Ukraine did not have the appropriate missile systems for the MiG-29 and Su-27, as well as the American F-16. Photos of the damaged "IL-22M company" indicated the probable lesion of the anti-aircraft missile of the land complex, not the aviation missile. One of the first to make the right assumption about the weapons used was the military expert Roman Svitan.

He suggested that the A-50 aircraft and enemy enemy-22 enemy control could be affected by Patriot or Samp/T. Now his words were confirmed by the US Army Colonel. The second A-50 was shot down on February 23. He took off from the Akhtubinsk airfield at 15:50, going to the task in the area of ​​the Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Graingrad. The Ukrainian military "caught" it almost 300 km from the front line. The entire aircraft crew was killed.