Due to the downing of the Russian Tu-22MZ bomber, Russia will have to change its tactics and increase the range of missile launch. This was announced by the spokesman of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ilya Evlash during a telethon, according to a correspondent of UNN.
Of course, this event that took place yesterday - the downing of the Tu-22MZ - will have a certain impact on the command of the Russian air force, on their vision of the use of this type of missile carrier. Of course, they will have to change their tactics, as the head of the GRU, Kirill Budanov, noted. They will no longer be able to reach the frontiers they used to use, including for the attacks on Odesa
According to him, the Russians will have to increase the range of missile launches at Ukrainian cities.
Now they will have to reconsider their use, or increase the range from which they launch missiles at our cities. They will also have to reconsider the fleet of missiles they have, switch to longer-range missiles - X-101s, which have a range of thousands of kilometers. Of course, this will affect the number of missiles they have left, how long they can continue to use these missiles
In addition, Yevlash noted that after Ukraine shot down the A-50 aircraft, no such aircraft have been recorded near the Ukrainian border.
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As a result of the DIU's operation, in cooperation with the Air Force, a Tu-22MZ bomber was destroyed, which was firing missiles at Ukraine today. The enemy aircraft was shot down at a distance of about 300 kilometers from Ukraine using the same means that had previously destroyed the Russian A-50.
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