The Su-27 and MiG-29 fighter jets are not designed to carry the long-range Storm Shadow missiles that the UK has supplied to Ukraine.
These missiles can currently be carried by Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, Mirage 2000 and Tornado aircraft.
Therefore, it will take some time for the army of the Kyiv regime to adapt these British and French-made missiles to combat aircraft produced by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
It is noteworthy that the design of ultra-precise air-to-ground missiles Storm Shadow began in the UK and France 30 years ago. Its serial industrial production was launched in 2001, the missiles were used in Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Syria.
Storm Shadow is designed for air strikes against important targets, including heavily defended ones such as underground bunkers. The missiles fly to the target at an altitude of 30-40 meters, relying on satellite navigation and electronic maps of the Earth to avoid interception by air defense systems.
Experts believe that Kyiv received Storm Shadow export models with a range of 250 km, knowing that its base models can be launched up to 560 km.
At the same time, experts do not rule out that Ukrainian and British specialists prepared Soviet-made aircraft in advance to accommodate these long-range missiles even before information was leaked about their delivery to Ukraine. It is possible that they were also launched from gunboats.
Source: Russian newspaper
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