“We’re finishing up fight duties to destroy enemy automobiles, enemy personnel, we’re working with pitch-up assaults from a distance from the place the enemy can’t get us with their air protection system,” stated the commander, who spoke on situation of anonymity for operational safety causes, consistent with navy laws.
The battle in Ukraine is essentially an artillery warfare, with territory being fought for inch by inch beneath a barrage of shells and missiles. However Ukraine’s aviation capabilities play a big position within the combat, the pilot stated.
“The significance of the helicopters is large,” stated the commander, who’s a part of Ukraine’s twelfth Military Aviation Brigade.
Footage from a digicam hooked up to the helicopter throughout a current fight mission reveals it flying over fields pockmarked with craters from artillery bombing, and firing missiles at Russian trenches that minimize by means of the panorama.
“We’re capturing from the large distance and hit the goal clearly, like there’s a cross on the goal and (the missiles) go by themselves the place they need to go,” the commander stated.
He would, nevertheless, wish to fly a more recent mannequin.
“We have to grasp one thing new, one thing from overseas,” the commander stated. “It has higher traits. You possibly can maneuver extra on it, there are extra rockets on it and the weapons are extra highly effective. We will do extra duties with higher high quality and with much less danger for us.”
A number of nations, together with the US and Britain, have pledged to ship, or have already despatched, helicopters to Ukraine as a part of navy assist because the begin of the warfare sparked by Russia’s invasion in Feb 2022.
