Russia's Soviet-era Be-12 amphibious aircraft is likely on the hunt for Ukraine's naval drones in the Black Sea, the British defense ministry said.
Moscow's Black Sea Fleet is using a Soviet-era amphibious aircraft as a"key Russian asset" as the Kremlin"struggles to deal with concurrent threats" around the south of the war-torn country, according to a new assessment.
Russia's Naval Aviation forces are using the decades-old Be-12 Mail amphibious aircraft to conduct maritime air patrols over the region, the British defense ministry said on Monday in an intelligence update posted to social media. The turboprop-powered aircraft, also known as the Chayka or Seagull, was designed in the early days of the Cold War for anti-submarine and maritime patrols. Footage circulating online throughout the war in Ukraine, now in its 20th month,Vladimir Putin visits the destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov at the Naval Base of Black Sea Fleet on September 23, 2014, in Novorossiysk, Russia.
"A key Russian asset in these operations is the Be-12 Mail amphibious aircraft, designed in the 1950s, flying out of bases in occupied Crimea," the U.K. government said.Russia loses 30 artillery systems, 11 tanks and a plane in a day: Ukraine With Moscow likely relocating much of its Black Sea activity to the city of Novorossiysk, in Russia's Krasnodar region, further away from Ukraine,"Russia is attempting to use naval air power to project force over the northwestern Black Sea," the ministry added.—thought to be the first Russian submarine hit during the war—and the Minsk landing ship in Sevastopol, Ukraine's military intelligence agency said at the time.
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