Ukrainian forces post video of drone strike on Russian Tor M-2 air defence system – video

Units from Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces have conducted a successful operation to destroy a Russian Tor M-2 anti-aircraft missile system on the Zaporizhzhia front. Source: Unmanned Systems Forces Command on Facebook Quote: "A crew from the 14th Separate UAV Regiment detected and stopped the target, and the operators from the 412th Nemesis UAV Battalion engaged and destroyed it."

Background:

• On 16 November, Ukrainian soldiers from a UAV strike unit of the 27th Pechersk Brigade of the National Guard destroyed a Russian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system worth US£10 million.
• On 25 October, Ukrainian forces struck a Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system and destroyed a target illumination and guidance radar station for 9S36 Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems in temporarily occupied Luhansk Oblast.
• On 21 October, the General Staff announced that Ukrainian forces had destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system stationed 60 km from the front line.

  The estimated value of the destroyed system is between US£40 million and US£50 million.

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