Mirage 2000 Makes History—Russian Banderol Cruise Missile Shot Down With Guns
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A Mirage 2000-5F reportedly shot down a Russian missile S8000 Banderol with its cannon, according to observers of the conflict in Ukraine. This fact, relayed by bloggers and specialists, would mark a first for a plane...
The Ukrainian armed forces launched a major airstrike on the Russian-held city of Donetsk on Saturday night. A Ukrainian pilot flying a Mirage fighter jet acquired from France shot down a Russian Bandero cruise missile for the first time with his onboard cannon.
A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet has destroyed a Russian S8000 Banderol small-sized cruise missile with fire from its onboard 30-mm cannon. The case is presented as the first known interception of this type of Russian missile by a Mirage. The information was reported by the French project French Aid to Europe. “The Mirage 2000-5F was the first Western fighter jet to destroy a Russian S8000 Banderol cruise missile with its cannon,” the stat…
Air-to-air missiles, which Ukraine is still lacking, are much cheaper to use for a cannon.
A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet shot down an S8000 Banderol, a relatively small cruise missile developed by Russia.
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