At least seven Russian warplanes were destroyed after explosions rocked annexed Crimea, in what CNN research found could be Moscow's biggest loss of military aircraft in a single day since World War II.
The destroyed warplanes appear to be Su-24 bombers and Su-30 multirole fighter jets, said Peter Layton, a fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and a former Australian Air Force pilot, who examined Planet Lab satellite photos showing the Saki Air Base before and after the explosions.Two more warplanes appear to have been damaged, Layton said.
In the trenches: See Ukrainians holding the line against Russia 02:24Russian munitions are not engineered to avoid such chain-reaction explosions, Layton added.He noted that the type of destruction at the air base is reminiscent of what led to the sinking of the Russian Navy cruiser Moskva earlier in the Ukraine war."The Moskva also had an internal explosion when warheads in the anti-ship cruise missiles on board self-detonated," Layton said.
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