Ukrainian Navy on Thursday destroyed a Russian Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopter over the Black Sea.
In a statement posted on its Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Navy said the operation to helicopter was struck in the Black Sea, in an operation carried out jointly by the Alpha Special Operations Center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in coordination with other components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The Navy stressed that the targeted infrastructure was involved in Russia’s war of invasion in Ukraine.
Apart from the Ka-27 helicopter, Ukrainian forces struck several other military targets, including naval vessels, a 30N6E2 radar of the S-300 PMU-2 Favorit air defence system, a Pantsir-S2 air defense missile and gun system, and six of seven oil loading racks at the Sheskharis oil terminal. In addition, minesweeper Valentin Pikul and the anti-submarine ships Yeysk and Kasimov were damaged, as well as possibly the frigate Admiral Essen, which Russia has used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukraine.
The Ka-27 is a naval helicopter from the Soviet era, created in the 1980s primarily for anti-submarine warfare missions. It is capable of locating and attacking submarines at depths of up to 500 meters and can operate within a combat radius of about 200 kilometers from its host ship. The aircraft can reach a maximum speed of roughly 270 km/h and has an operational range of approximately 800–900 kilometers.
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