{"id":46807,"date":"2022-03-14T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46807"},"modified":"2022-03-14T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:56:56","slug":"the-damage-caused-by-a-ukrainian-manpads-on-a-russian-su-25-attack-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/14\/the-damage-caused-by-a-ukrainian-manpads-on-a-russian-su-25-attack-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"The damage caused by a Ukrainian MANPADS on a Russian Su-25 attack plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man-portable missile launchers used by the Ukrainian forces are not only wreaking havoc with Russian vehicles, but also with their aircraft.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/05\/the-impressive-video-of-the-shooting-down-of-a-russian-mi-24-attack-helicopter-in-ukraine\/\">The impressive video of the shooting down of a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/ucrania-captura-y-publica-documentos-rusos-capturados-con-los-planes-para-la-invasion\/\">Ucrania captura y publica documentos rusos secretos con sus planes para la invasi\u00f3n<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the Russian state agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20220314\/pilot-1778030799.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RIA Novosti published a story<\/a> about <strong>the extreme situation experienced by a Russian pilot at the controls of a Sukhoi Su-25 attack plane.<\/strong> He and another partner had just attacked a ground target. As they retreated, <strong>the plane was hit by a man-portable surface-to-air missile<\/strong> (known as MANPADS) fired by the Ukrainian defenders.<strong> The missile hit the right engine of the Su-25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian agency, the pilot remained calm and managed to straighten the plane's course. <strong>At that moment, his partner saw in the cockpit mirrors the launch of a second Ukrainian MANPADS.<\/strong> The partner launched his plane's infrared countermeasures (the now classic flares that planes launch to deflect heat-guided surface-to-air missiles) and the missile passed under him. <strong>RIA Novosti posted this morning at 9:33 CET the video of the damaged plane<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rian_ru\/153290\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on its Telegram channel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eGy8lkPTaS0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The images, in which the numerals of the damaged plane and another that was on the same base have been out of focus, show <strong>serious damage to the right engine, as well as damage to the fuselage and drift of the plane<\/strong>, as well as minor damage to the right stabilizer.<\/p>\n<p>As documented by the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/2022\/02\/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a>, <strong>Russia has already lost at least 13 planes during this invasion. Of these, 6 were Sukhoi Su-25s<\/strong>, of which 5 were destroyed. The plane that we have just seen in the video would be the only damaged one that has been documented so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man-portable missile launchers used by the Ukrainian forces are not only wreaking havoc with Russian vehicles, but also with their aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11546,10429],"tags":[10731,11372,16153,6445,15307],"class_list":["post-46807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-second","tag-russia","tag-russian-air-force","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-sukhoi-su-25","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 06:24:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}