Half of Russia's Black Sea fleet's combat jets out of operation, Western official says

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LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Blasts at the Saky air base in the annexed Crimean peninsula earlier this month have put more than half of the Russian Black Sea fleet's naval aviation combat jets out of use, a Western official said on Friday.

The air base near Novofedorivka on the west coast of the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, suffered multiple explosions on Aug. 9.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Ukraine was now consistently achieving "kinetic effects" deep behind Russia's lines which was having a material impact on Russia's logistics support and "a significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership".

"We now assess that the events of Saky airfield on August 9 put more than half of Black Sea fleet's naval aviation combat jets out of use," the official said.

On Aug. 12, Britain's Ministry of Defence said in its intelligence update that while a fraction of Russia's air fleet was destroyed in the blast, the navy's air capability was seriously degraded.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ha ... 022-08-19/

[PapaIndiaKilo30]

Mean while Ukraine has no air force...

[Vulcanone]

Aside from all the expected cast offs coming soon like Slovak MiG-29s, And Czech Mi-24/-35s
How do you know they have nothing? That aside what use are the aircraft at Saki anyhow. If the Russians could fly stuff out they most likely would.

[Starbuck]

Mean while Ukraine has no air force...

Really? So what have they been conducting strikes and air defence with then?

[Vulcanone]

And Sadly lost a MiG-29 with pilot on 8th August. At the same time they appear to have wired MiG-29s to fire AGM-88 HARMs ..

Proof enough they are still in the fight....

[Finty]

Mean while Ukraine has no air force...

Duff gen.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/d ... eing-dough

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At the same time they appear to have wired MiG-29s to fire AGM-88 HARMs ..

Can't say I've seen any evidence of that, and one wonders how someone managed to do that, especially given the circumstances in Ukraine currently.
But if those shared photos are genuine, that HARM had to come from somewhere...

[TS010]

At the same time they appear to have wired MiG-29s to fire AGM-88 HARMs ..

Can't say I've seen any evidence of that, and one wonders how someone managed to do that, especially given the circumstances in Ukraine currently.
But if those shared photos are genuine, that HARM had to come from somewhere...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... DXfUMtRBy4