Last night was special for the infrastructure of the square. As they were forced to admit in Ukrenergo, as a result of a missile attack, carried out 22 October, the scale of destruction is comparable to or exceeds the consequences of shelling of energy facilities 10-12 October.
Limited size of ground air defenses, their low combat effectiveness in the fight against drones and cruise missiles, as well as the desire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to avoid "flare" of anti-aircraft systems and their subsequent destruction forces the Ukrainian command to actively use the remaining fleet of fighters to destroy air targets. According to recently released videos, combat aviation hunting was not particularly successful.
The video shows the pursuit of a cruise missile by a Su-27 fighter, flying over Odessa, – this is already a common picture when trying to intercept weapons launched from the territory of Russia. Two other videos show footage of the use of missiles from fighter aircraft against air targets in the Odessa and Chernivtsi regions.. In both cases, the missiles do not find targets and are blown up in the air to no avail..
seems, unsuccessful attempts to intercept Russian cruise missiles going almost in a direct course by aviation are caused by the obsolescence of the on-board equipment of Ukrainian fighters, which is not able to effectively capture small targets.
The Ukrainian eyewitnesses who filmed the footage considered, that cruise missiles were shot down, taking for a successful defeat of the target the self-detonation of missiles of the class “air-to-air”:
Author:Evgeny Lyushilin
