A viral video shows the Russian Mi-28N helicopter being split in two and crashing after being shot by a Starstreak missile in the Luhanks area.
A viral video shows the Russian Mi-28N helicopter being split in two and crashing after being shot by a Starstreak missile in the Luhanks area. The Starstreak missile is Britain's latest aid to Ukraine. This is what the missile looks like.
Starstreak can be fired from a launcher on the surface to shoot fighter jets or helicopters up to a distance of 7 kilometers.
Laser-guided, Starstreak can aim at targets with precision and hard to anticipate. This weapon is designed for close air defense.
This is the appearance of a Russian helicopter that was shot by Starstreak until its body split.
Starstreak itself is made by British company, Thales Air Defense.
Also known as Starstreak HVM (High Velocity Missile), this missile accelerates to over Mach4 once fired, making it the world's fastest short-range surface-to-air missile.
"All the weapons supplied are destabilizing, especially the ones mentioned by the British Secretary of Defense, Ben Wallace," he said, as quoted by us from Eurasiantimes.
"They exacerbate the situation, make it even more bloody. Apparently, the weapon is high-precision and new. Naturally, our armed forces would see it as a legitimate target if the supplies entered the Ukrainian border," he added.
Ben Wallace himself previously said western countries had agreed to provide more long-range artillery and tactical vehicles to Ukraine.
He said the weapons were needed to deal with Russian bombardments in cities like Mariupol.
Apart from this Starstreak, the British have sent thousands of weapons to Ukraine.