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Mulitple armoured Russian vehicles have been destroyed in battle near Maryinka, Ukraine. Footage posted on Facebook on 28 February by the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade shows military ...
In September, Ukraine destroyed state-of-the-art Russian air defences in Crimea and damaged two ships. Moskva , the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, sank in the waters off Ukraine during ...
However, it never finished its launch countdown; the launch vehicle was destroyed on the launch pad by fire on 26 September 1983. The launch escape system of the Soyuz spacecraft fired six seconds before the launch vehicle exploded, saving the crew. As of 2022, it remains the only time a launch escape system has been fired before launch with a ...
104 tanks, 575 armoured combat vehicles, 1,104 vehicles, 330 artillery systems, 12 multiple-launch rocket systems, 12 air defence systems and 859 UAVs destroyed 1 Mi-28 helicopter [35] 1 Su-34 aircraft [36] 1 T-90M tank captured [37] 4 T-80 BVM tanks captured 2 T-72 tanks captured [38] Per Ukraine: 4,000 killed or wounded, 2 captured [39] [18 ...
A MiG-29 was destroyed during Russian Iskander-M missile strike on Dolgintsevo Air Base in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. [254] 29 July Su-25 A Su-25 was destroyed in the ground by Russian Lancet strike in Kryvyi Rih. [255] 12 August Su-27 A Su-27 was damaged in the ground at Myrhorod Air Base, Poltava Oblast. [256] 12 August MiG-29
The BM-30 Smerch (Russian: Смерч, lit. 'tornado', 'whirlwind'), 9K58 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a heavy self-propelled 300 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union to fire a full load of 12 solid-fuelled projectiles.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) -Russia's rocket forces loaded an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with the nuclear-capable "Avangard" hypersonic glide vehicle into a launch silo in southern Russia ...
Its only launch failure occurred on 1 February 1969, when the launch of a Meteor failed due to an upper stage problem. At 16:01 GMT on 18 March 1980, a Vostok-2M exploded during fueling at Plesetsk Site 43/4 , ahead of the launch of a Tselina-D satellite, killing 48 people who were working on the rocket at the time.