Su-30 fighter crashed in the Kaliningrad region

The Su-30 fighter crashed in the Kaliningrad region. The crew died. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The cause of the crash of the aircraft, according to the preliminary information of the department, was a technical malfunction.

The flight was training. The crew, stated, performed it without ammunition. The crash occurred in a deserted area. Before the fall, eyewitnesses heard an explosion in the air, reported the telegram channel 112.

Su-30 is a double multipurpose fighter actively used in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the invasion of only in the combat zone, Russia lost 11 such fighters, follows from the calculations of the Oryx monitoring project. By the beginning of 2023, the Russian army had 118 such aircraft, follows from open sources.

The aircraft, among other things, is designed to destroy air goals, control airspace, block enemy airfields and air intelligence.

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