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Russia’s Bombers Had One Unfortunate Thing in Common With the Moskva
On the morning of October 30, 2026, a satellite passed over a Russian military airfield in the Volgograd region and photographed something that would have been extremely expensive for Moscow to explain. Two parking areas beside the aircraft hangars showed signs of destruction, and the fighter-bombers that had occupied those positions were no longer intact.
The aircraft were Su-34s, among the most important warplanes in Russia’s campaign against Ukraine. Each was worth tens of millions of dollars, and both belonged to a military aviation unit responsible for supporting Russian operations. They had not been destroyed during an aerial dogfight or intercepted while approaching Ukrainian airspace.
They were sitting at their own airbase when Ukraine struck.
But the most unusual detail was not the number of aircraft destroyed or the location of the attack. It was the weapon Ukraine had used to reach them.
The same Ukrainian missile family that sent Russia’s Black Sea flagship to the bottom of the sea in 2022 was now destroying Russian bombers hundreds of kilometers inland.
And just two days later, Ukrainian forces used Neptune missiles again, this time against a Russian factory responsible for producing fuel used in rockets and…
