US EditionOSINT Video Suggests Ukrainian Crop Duster Armed With R-73 Missiles
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They Laughed at This Little Farm Plane—Until Ukraine Gave It R-73 Missiles
A Polish-built agricultural aircraft fitted with Soviet-designed air-to-air missiles has been spotted in service with the Ukrainian Air Force, according to the Polkovnik GSH Telegram channel, which is linked to Ukraine’s armed forces, on August 8. The interceptor is a Zlin Z-137T Agro Turbo, a light propeller-driven crop-dusting plane, modified to carry R-73 “Archer” short-range infrared-guided missiles—a weapon normally used by high-performance…
Missile-equipped farm plane spotted in Ukraine
A video circulating on TikTok appears to show, for the first time, a modernized Zlin Z-137 Agro Turbo aircraft modified to carry and launch missiles. The clip was shared by the open-source intelligence community Tysk, which wrote: “Flight of a turboprop Moravan Z-137 Agro Turbo, converted to launch missiles, somewhere over Ukraine.” The footage has
According to the latest assessment of the Ministry of Armed Forces on the situation in Ukraine for the period from August 5 to 7, Russian forces are maintaining constant pressure on the Ukrainian army on the Northern and Eastern fronts, without however achieving significant gains, while the positions of the two sides are frozen on the one... This article Ukraine transforms the Zlin Z-137 light agricultural work aircraft into a drone fighter appe…
Throughout more than three years of conflict, the constant threat posed by Russian drones, increasingly manufactured in number and diversity, has forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces to resort to a variety of solutions, ranging from the use of some of the most advanced air defence systems in the West, as well as to less orthodox solutions. The latest example has been recorded recently, where the flight of an agricultural aircraft Zlin Z-137 Agro Tu…
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