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| Date: | Sunday 21 August 2022 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Sukhoi Su-27S |
| Owner/operator: | Ukrainian Air Force |
| Registration: | 26 Blue |
| MSN: | 36911013814 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Barvinkove, Izium Raion, Kharkiv Oblast -
 Ukraine
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 21 August 2022, a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27S of the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade was shot down by forces of the Russian Federation in the vicinity of Barvinkove in Kharkiv Oblast.
The pilot Pidpolkovnyk Pavlo Petrovich Babych, a third class pilot from the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade, was killed in action. The death of Babych was confirmed by local officials in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast. It is thought that Babych was piloting the aircraft with bort no. 26 Blue as this is the aircraft depicted on his gravestone. If this is true, then this aircraft was previously damaged in March 2022 in a Russian strike on Ozerne Air Base in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast(https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/388493), before later likely being repaired by personnel from Zaporozhye State Aircraft Repair Plant “MiGremont”.
According to unofficial sources affiliated with the Russian Air Force, it is likely that the aircraft was downed using a hypersonic R-37M BVR missile fired from either a Russian Air Force Su-35 air superiority fighter or MiG-31 interceptor.
Babych was posthumously awarded the honourary title «Honor and pride of the Novoguyn community».
Sources:
https://t.me/mod_russia/19029
https://t.me/mod_russia/19030
https://t.me/s/ZOV_Voevoda/3690
https://www.facebook.com/alexander.lovinyuk/posts/pfbid02EyENrW3wWQMC4DAeRHG69A3zYy5vJUEHrGaEwTqHH1whoFDSCsj1HQ7poGEC7hK5l
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid06THUuTznEhYwKpEEtTkMMvjjnokonZEfrqhhyKz4158HPLzWoNmPu6h6d9DKUuifl&id=105014091900208
https://novoguyvynske-miskrada.gov.ua/news/1695880925/
https://verdictum.ligazakon.net/document/104102957
https://vlch.org/home/heroiam-slava?view=article&layout=edit&id=148
https://zhitomir-online.com/2022/08/23/pid-chas-vykonannya-zavdannya-rozbyvsya-zhytomyrskyy-lotchyk.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfsx3OnJKOQ
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 March 2022 | 26 Blue | Ukrainian Air Force | 0 | Ozerne Air Base, Ozerne, Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast | |
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Sep-2022 06:49 | gerard57 | Added |
| 10-Sep-2022 15:07 | Drone Insider | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 28-Nov-2023 07:29 | AlxSrgv | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Jan-2024 09:38 | Anon. | Updated [Operator] |
| 02-Jun-2024 06:30 | Anon. | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 22-Jun-2024 06:05 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Jun-2024 19:23 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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