On the eve of the Defense Forces destroyed two Russian Su-30 aircraft in the Black Sea using AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared-guided air-to-air missiles.

The head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, told The War Zone about this, Censor.NET reports with reference to RBC-Ukraine .

Thus, Ukrainian reconnaissance aircraft shot down two Su-30 Flanker multi-role fighters using AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared-guided air-to-air missiles .

This is the first time fighters have been shot down by drones, and the first use of the AIM-9 from a drone to destroy an enemy.

“This is a historic moment,” Kirill Budanov, head of the State Security Service, told reporters .

The incident occurred in the Black Sea on Friday, May 2, Budanov reported, who presented new details of the event.

According to him, the GUR used three Magura V7 unmanned boats in the attack , two of which fired at the aircraft.

“The Magura V7 is a variant of the Magura V5 for air defense,” Budanov explained, declining to go into detail about the difference between them.

The head of the GUR also reported that the crew of the first Su-30 survived and was picked up in the Black Sea by a civilian vessel. According to preliminary data, the crew of the second aircraft died .

Reference

The AIM-9 Sidewinder is an American short-range air-to-air missile developed by Raytheon in the mid-1950s. After the AIM-9 entered service in 1956,

Recall that on May 2, 2025, a special unit of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in cooperation with the SBU and the Defense Forces of Ukraine, eliminated a Russian Su-30 in the Black Sea – this is the first destruction of a combat aircraft by a naval drone in the world. Later it became known that the Ukrainian military shot down the second Russian aircraft over Crimea in a day. Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3550334

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