Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) have delivered a massive blow to the Russian military’s strategic aviation and ballistic missile capabilities, executing a successful drone raid against a military airfield in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region. Strategic aircraft and ballistic launchers eliminated USF Commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi officially announced the results of the mission on Facebook, releasing combat surveillance footage documenting the terminal impacts. According to the command’s assessment, the drone strikes achieved total destruction of three high-priority targets situated on the airfield’s tarmac and outer perimeters.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Brovdi noted that the Tu-142 is a specialized, long-range maritime anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and reconnaissance platform built heavily upon the airframe design of Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bomber. Eliminating two of these large assets represents a significant, hard-to-replace loss for Russia’s naval aviation fleet. The raid also successfully targeted and wiped out a Russian Iskander operational-tactical missile system. The mobile platform, which is routinely used to launch surface-to-surface ballistic and cruise missiles into Ukrainian civilian and military infrastructure, was hunted down and destroyed directly at its active firing position on the outskirts of Taganrog. “The USF birds destroyed an Iskander and 2 Tu-142 aircraft at the military airfield in Taganrog, Russian Federation, on the night of May 30,” Commander Brovdi reported.