Military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) attacked a Russian airfield in Kursk using kamikaze drones on the night of August 27. The attack targeted four SU-30 and one MIG-29 aircraft, as well as S-300 radars and two Pantsyr missile systems.
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The attack was carried out by cardboard drones that were able to fly past the echelon system with long-range radar and were not detected.
A wave of drones hit four Su-30 aircraft and one MiG-29 at Kursk Airfield, as well as damaging two Pantsir missile launchers and the radars of an S-300 air defense system. Only 3 of them were shot down by a leaky air defense system of Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Defense acknowledged an overnight drone attack in the region but did not mention an attack on Kursk Airfield.
The Kyiv regime once again made attempts overnight and in the morning of 27 August to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation, using aircraft-type UAVs.
Air defence systems on duty detected and destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles flying over the territory of Bryansk and Kursk oblasts.
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