Russian Black Sea Fleet Air Regiment Loses More Than Half Of Su-30SM Fighters
- 15.08.2025, 12:24
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The unit is based at the Saki airfield.
On August 14, a Russian Su-30SM multirole fighter jet crashed in an area southeast of Snake Island. With the downing of this machine, Russia lost more than half of the Su-30SMs in service with the 43rd Separate Marine Attack Aviation Regiment of the Russian Air Force.
The unit is based at the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka, which was seized after 2014. In addition to Su-30SMs, the regiment has Su-24 frontline bombers, up to one squadron.
By the start of the full-scale invasion, the regiment had 12 Su-30SMs - the full complement of the squadron, according to "Militarny" citing Military Aviation editor-in-chief Denis Tomenchuk.
In assessing the state of the unit, the analyst noted that the first combat loss occurred on March 5, 2022, in the Mykolaiv region: then both pilots ejected and were captured - Major Alexei Golovensky, commander of the air squadron, and navigator Captain Alexei Kozlov.
The next loss of the aircraft occurred on August 9, 2022, when Ukrainian forces launched a precision strike on the Saki airbase. As a result, the Russians lost three Su-30SMs irrevocably, while another one was damaged. In addition, five Su-24 bombers were destroyed and three damaged.
In the fall of 2024, losses in the 43rd Regiment continued. In September, a Su-30SM was shot down in the combat area from a portable anti-aircraft missile system by fighters of a special unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine.
In the spring of 2025, a unique episode in world military history took place. On May 2, a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's GSD, together with the SBU and defense forces, for the first time used a maritime drone armed with an AIM-9 missile to destroy a Russian Su-30SM in the Black Sea.
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