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A Polish missile, the Piorun, hits the mark against the Mi-35s and Su-34s of the Russian army

2022-04-01T19:12:55.674Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - It's the world upside down: the Americans now want to buy Polish missiles. Because the Piorun is a third cheaper and twice as powerful as the American missile, Stinger.


By Marcin Sztandera, Wawrzyniec Święcicki

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The video in which we see a Mi-24/Mi-35 shot down by a missile has gone around the world.

The Russian helicopter was flying at high speed a few tens of meters from the ground when it was hit in the side by the projectile.

It catches fire, crashes to the ground and explodes spectacularly.

Internet users wonder if he was the victim of a Polish Piorun surface-to-air missile, or an American FIM-92 Stinger.

And the scales tip in favor of the former.

The height of the shot, above all, seems to speak in its favor.

Stingers are not accurate on targets flying below 600 feet.

While the Piorun is effective from 10 m, so the pilots' technique of flying low and hiding behind trees does not allow them to escape.

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The Ukrainians hastened to report that on the evening of March 6, near Kharkiv, a Su-34 bomber was shot down.

One crew member perished, while the other...

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Source: lefigaro

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