{"id":1931054,"date":"2023-05-15T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shot-down-video-shows-the-russian-air-force-was-just-crushed-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:15:17","slug":"shot-down-video-shows-the-russian-air-force-was-just-crushed-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shot-down-video-shows-the-russian-air-force-was-just-crushed-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Video reveals Russian Air Force&#8217;s defeat in Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshot-down-video-shows-the-russian-air-force-was-just-crushed-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Dark Day for the Russian Air Force \u2013 Four Aircraft Lost in Single Day<\/h2>\n<p>On Saturday, the Russian Air Force suffered its worst day in decades, losing four aircraft in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-restaurant-owners-want-to-play-fair-so-far-they-say-newsom-hasnt\/\" title=\"Late-night restaurant owners want to play fair. So far, they say, Newsom hasn't\">single day<\/a>. According to reports and videos on social media, two Mi-8 transport helicopters, a Su-34 fighter\/bomber, and a Su-35 air superiority fighter were shot down over the Bryansk region of Western Russia by air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles launched from within Ukraine. The pilots and aircrew of all four aircraft were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-motorcycle-deputy-killed-in-collision\/\" title=\"Los Angeles motorcycle deputy killed in collision\">reportedly killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Losses of Russian Aircraft to Date<\/h3>\n<p>The losses of Russian aircraft have been significantly smaller in number than that of tanks and other ground vehicles. However, as of March, the Kremlin\u2019s forces had lost more aircraft than Ukraine \u2013 with Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shot-down-video-shows-the-russian-air-force-was-just-crushed-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"Video reveals Russian Air Force's defeat in Ukraine.\">losses exceeding 70 fixed-wing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-vertical-lift-capability-key-to-indo-pacific-strategy\/\" title=\"Army Vertical Lift Capability Key to Indo-Pacific Strategy\">rotary-wing aircraft<\/a>, compared to an estimated 60 from Ukraine, according to the top U.S. Air Force commander in Europe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa and NATO\u2019s Allied Air Command, said on March 6 during the AFA Warfare Symposium, Air &#038; Space Magazine had reported.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[Russia has] downed over 60 Ukrainian aircraft,\u201d Hecker added. \u201cUkraine\u2019s downed over 70 Russian aircraft. So both of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steps-the-u-s-can-take-to-defend-against-chinas-missiles\/\" title=\"Steps the U.S. Can Take to Defend Against China\u2019s Missiles\">integrated air<\/a> and missile defense, especially when you\u2019re talking about going against aircraft, they\u2019ve been very effective. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re not flying over one another\u2019s country.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kremlin has also seen a number of its aircraft come under attack on the ground within Russia \u2013 targeted by Ukrainian drones, while earlier this month, anti-Putin resistance forces reportedly attempted to sabotage an Su-24 supersonic bomber that was located at the Sukhoi aircraft factory at Novosibirsk, located 1,800 miles east of Ukraine in Siberia.<\/p>\n<h3>Author Experience and Expertise<\/h3>\n<p>Peter Suciu, a Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, is a Michigan-based writer with over 20 years of experience in journalism. He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites, with over 3,200 published pieces. Peter regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, politics, and international affairs. He is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes and Clearance Jobs. Follow him on Twitter: @PeterSuciu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Day for the Russian Air Force \u2013 Four Aircraft Lost in Single Day: According to reports and video on social media, though Saturday may not go down as a day that will live in infamy, it was still the worst day for the Russian Air Force in decades. The Kremlin lost two Mi-8 transport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6229,5505,3945,5114,3965,6991,4440],"class_list":["post-1931054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-air","tag-defeat","tag-forces","tag-reveals","tag-russian","tag-ukraine","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}