After Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine, under the continuous military assistance of the United States and other NATO member states, Ukraine also began to fight an air defense "guerrilla war" with the Russian Air and Space Force and other aviation forces, and the most popular air defense weapon obtained by Ukraine at present is the Stinger shoulder-fired air defense missile made by the United States, and the stinger shoulder-fired air defense missile is also targeted at a large number of helicopters that are carrying out penetration missions and fighter-bombers that perform low-altitude bomb-dropping missions. However, the maximum flight speed of stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles is only Mach 2.2, and now Ukraine has obtained an air defense weapon that far exceeds the flight speed of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which is a Starlight air defense missile from the United Kingdom, and the maximum flight speed of starlight short-range air defense missiles can reach Mach 4, which has exceeded the maximum flight speed of many supersonic fighters, the design of this type of missile is quite special, taking the "1 tow 3" design, which means that the Starlight missile can complete the launch of three missiles in a row.
Ukraine may also have clearly announced the results of the British Starlight anti-aircraft missile on the battlefield, it is understood that Ukraine used the Starlight anti-aircraft missile to attack a Russian Mi-28N Havoc helicopter gunship in Luhansk, which was also the first loss of the Mi-28N gunship on the Ukrainian battlefield, and now there is news that a Su-35S fighter belonging to the Russian Air Force was destroyed near Kharkiv, when the Su-35 fighter was on the task of suppressing ukrainian ground air defense fire It is unclear whether it was Britain's Starlight anti-aircraft missile that created the results.
Now Russia's advanced fighters have been continuously lost, the current Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, Su-35S fighter, all crashed in Ukraine, and the reasons for the downing of these fighters are directly related to the anti-aircraft missiles of NATO members, after which it was pointed out that the Russian army's stealth fighters had a high-profile military operation in Ukraine, and the Su-57 fighters did not carry out their air-dominating combat missions. Instead, precision-guided missiles were fired at a bridge in Ukraine, and there are now indications that the Su-57 fighter jets do not dare to act rashly, because once the Su-57 fighter jet is destroyed, the Myth of Russia's fifth-generation aircraft will be completely destroyed.
At present, China, Russia and the United States are the only three countries in the world with the production capacity of fifth-generation aircraft, only the F-35 fighter jet made in the United States and the Russian Su-57 fighter jet have been put into actual combat, if the Russian Su-57 fighter jet is subjected to shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles or other air defense weapons in actual combat, then Russia will also be disgraced, so at present, Russia absolutely does not dare to let the Su-57 fighter continue to act rashly.
It is not difficult to see that at present, Russia has lost quite a lot in the process of sending military aircraft to engage in air combat with Ukraine, but Russia has basically suffered from air defense missiles, and Russia has also significantly increased its strikes on air defense weapons in Ukraine, including the direct launch of Iskander M tactical missiles and the Beech M1 air defense missiles of Baoji Ukraine. Text/Iris