Minus $ 11 million: the Armed Forces in Kherson region was knocked down by a Russian Su-25 Storm.-Air Force
The department said that the Su-25 was destroyed in the morning of November 7. The stormwk was attacked by a unit of the Kherson anti -aircraft missile brigade. "On November 7, at about 09:30, in the Kherson region a unit of the Kherson anti-aircraft missile brigade of the South Air Command" South "is shot down by Russian Su-25," the message said. Su-25-Soviet-made rustle, which is in service with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It is an armored permeable military aircraft.
The assault is designed to directly support the land troops over the battlefield and at night with the direct visibility of the target, as well as the destruction of objects with the given coordinates around the clock in any meteorological. The cost of one SU-25 is about $ 11 million. Recall that on October 25, the British intelligence reported that the Russian Federation lost 25% of its KA-52 helicopters in the war with Ukraine.
In this way, at least 23 aircraft of the Armed Forces of this type were destroyed. In addition, it is almost half of the total losses of helicopters in the war in Ukraine. On September 7, the Armed Forces was destroyed by a Russian Su-25 Storm Storm near Kharkiv region. According to Flightglobal, at the end of 2021 the air space forces of the Russian Federation had 192 Su-25 aircraft. On July 15, the SBU told that Ukrainian fighters struck two Su-25 in the Zaporozhye region.