Interesting information comes from the territory of a neighboring country. Today Ukrainian blogger Andrew Shore on his Facebook page recorded on the use of Ukrainian armed forces air defense systems (SAM) "Buk-M1" for the destruction of the territory of the Russian Donbass drones “trencher”.
The blogger wrote, SAM crews that even staged something like competitions, Who is the greatest hit by Russian UAV, and it is not clear from the record, considered as the downed UAV – for one day or for the time of application of SAM? Also, the blogger claims, In May one of the crew Ukrainian SAM “Buk-M1” He shot down two "heads" four minutes. In his records he refers to data from the forum waronline.org, while claiming, what “information, high reliability”.
For today, among the crews of "Buk-M1: first place - nine downed "eagles", second place - seven downed, third place - two crews of four
Here, probably, it should be noted, that the Russian drone “Trencher-10” weighs 14 kg and is used for reconnaissance. UAVs of this type are available on the armies of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, but data on the exact number of UAVs are not available. Also worth noting, missiles for SAM “Buk-M1” Ukraine has not produced.
At the same time the head of the press service of the Armed Forces of the DNI Daniel Bezsonov said today, that in the area marked the arrival Hlebodarovki 9A34 SAM "Strela-10" with battery management technology. These complexes are on the order of the brigade commander were dispersed and began to combat duty.
