At least one Russian A-50 AWACS damaged in drone attack on Taganrog aircraft plant – HUR source

At least one Russian A-50 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft was damaged in a drone attack on the Taganrog aircraft plant on March 9, according to NV source in the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR).

Explosions were heard in Taganrog, Russia overnight on March 8-9. The authorities reported a massive attack by allegedly Ukrainian drones.

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The Taganrog authorities reported officially that the attack was repelled by Russian air defenses and acknowledged the injury of only one emergency response worker who was involved in the clearing operations.

Local Telegram channels wrote that the Taganrog Beriev Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex could have been hit. Russian military bloggers noted that the plant’s workshops were used to repair the A-50 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

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At the same time, Serhiy Bratchuk, head of the Public Council at the Odesa Oblast Military Administration, wrote on social media that Ukrainian special services had conducted a successful special operation in Taganrog, hitting a local aircraft manufacturing plant with drones.

Earlier, British intelligence noted that the plant is of great strategic importance to Russia, as it maintains long-range strategic bombers, transport aircraft, and is a testing center for the next generation of A-100 aircraft.

Satellite images of the aftermath of the attack show damage to two large buildings associated with the A-50 fleet, which were likely used to shelter the aircraft during periods of deep maintenance.

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