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In Ukraine, another combat helicopter was shot down from MANPADS

In Ukraine, a combat helicopter was shot down again.

A combat helicopter was destroyed by an unidentified type of man-portable air defense system while attempting to strike. The fired missile destroyed a combat rotorcraft from a distance of almost 8 kilometers, as indicated by a very long flight of an anti-aircraft guided missile, which lasted 28 seconds. This is almost a record figure for a portable anti-aircraft missile system.

On the presented video frames, you can see how the servicemen, noticing the helicopter, launch an anti-aircraft missile in the direction of the last one, which, for unknown reasons, rushed towards the helicopter not along the shortest trajectory, but making a circle, which may indicate that the anti-aircraft missile was suppressed. Nevertheless, after 28 seconds (which, at a rocket speed of 300 m / s, indicates that the latter covered a distance of about 8-8,5 kilometers), the rocket definitely hit the combat rotorcraft.

On the presented video frames, you can also notice that the helicopter received damage, but not critical - judging by the absence of open combustion, the crew of the combat helicopter tried to land the car on the ground, however, towards the end of the shooting, you can see that the helicopter lost control and began to fall.

Video frames, according to the source, were made on the territory of the Kharkov region.

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