Ukraine has destroyed Russia’s only flying test aircraft for airborne laser weapons in a strike on the Beriev manufacturing facility in Taganrog.

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A-60 Aircraft: Soviet Dream of Laser Weapons in the Sky The A‑60 is one of the most obscure and ambitious projects to emerge from the late Soviet and later Russian aviation industry. Developed on the basis of the Il‑76MD transport aircraft, it became the world’s first airborne test platform equipped with a high‑power laser system. Its primary purpose was to conduct trials of directed‑energy weapons […] Post A-60 Aircraft: Soviet Dream of Laser Weapons in the Sky at Root-Nation.com.

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In Taganrog, in addition to the A-60 aircraft, an A-100 AWACS plane was destroyed, though it did not have its dish-shaped radar installed. S-400 air-defense positions were also struck 🇺🇦💪
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