{"id":21122620,"date":"2026-09-08T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/su-35s-mid-air-collision-kursk-region-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:05:47","slug":"su-35s-mid-air-collision-kursk-region-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/su-35s-mid-air-collision-kursk-region-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Su-35 Collision Over Kursk: One Russian Pilot Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>Two Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-35-flanker-e\/\">Su-35S<\/a> fighters collided in the air over Russia&rsquo;s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report comes from Fighterbomber, a pro-war Russian Telegram channel with reported ties to the Russian Aerospace Forces, and from the local outlet Pepel. Kursk. Russia&rsquo;s Defence Ministry has said nothing. Ukraine has claimed nothing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The cause is unknown. Some Russian bloggers have gestured at Ukrainian involvement without offering evidence, and no Ukrainian official has claimed the aircraft. For a fighter that has spent four years killing at ranges where nobody can see it happen, losing two airframes to each other is a bleakly fitting way to make the news.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>What happened<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Two Su-35S fighters collided in mid-air<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Where<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Kursk region, Russia, bordering Ukraine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>When<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Reported Sunday 7 September 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Casualties<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">One pilot killed; one ejected and injured<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Fighterbomber Telegram channel and Pepel. Kursk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Official confirmation<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">None. No Russian MoD statement, no Ukrainian claim<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Cause<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Unknown<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft type<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Su-35S Flanker-E, single-seat, twin-engine, thrust-vectoring<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why this one is hard to verify<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Fighterbomber is not a neutral source, but it is not a useless one either. The channel has repeatedly acknowledged Russian losses that the Defence Ministry never addressed, including the June 2024 drone strike that damaged a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-57-felon\/\">Su-57<\/a> on the ground at Akhtubinsk. When it reports bad news, that news has tended to be real.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What it is not is verifiable. Meduza, which picked the story up on Sunday evening, was careful to note that the collision has not been officially confirmed. Every English-language outlet carrying it, including Kyiv Post, Militarnyi and UNITED24, traces back to the same two Russian-language sources. Broad republication is not the same as independent corroboration, and this story currently has none.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/su-35s-russian-air-force-anniversary-flight.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-35S manoeuvring with vapour over the wings\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Su-35S was built to win a close-in fight. Four years of war have almost never asked it to have one. Photo: Wikimedia Commons \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Mid-air collisions between fighters are not exotic. They happen in formation join-ups, in tail chases, in air combat training, and in the crowded seconds around a rejoin. Kursk borders Ukraine and remains an active operating area for Russian aviation, so the jets could plausibly have been on a combat air patrol, a transit, or a training sortie. Without an official cause, all of that is speculation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A fighter built for the merge that never gets one<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Su-35S descends from the Su-27M, a deep modernisation of the Soviet Union&rsquo;s premier air-superiority fighter whose first prototype flew in 1988. The definitive production Su-35S first flew in May 2011 and entered Russian service in 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is a serious machine. AL-41F1S engines with thrust-vectoring nozzles give it the post-stall party tricks that made it an airshow legend. It carries the Irbis-E passive electronically scanned array radar, which its manufacturer credits with detecting large targets out to roughly 400 kilometres, plus the Khibiny jamming suite, an infrared search-and-track set, fourteen hardpoints and more than 8,000 kilograms of stores. Its first combat deployment, to Syria in January 2016, cast it as an intimidation asset, shadowing Turkish and Israeli aircraft over contested airspace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then it got a real war, and the war never asked it to dogfight. After Ukraine&rsquo;s mobile surface-to-air missile force made penetrating flights prohibitively expensive in early 2022, the Su-35 settled into patrolling behind its own lines, escorting <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-34-fullback\/\">Su-34s<\/a> lobbing glide bombs, and firing the very-long-range R-37M at Ukrainian fighters from standoff distance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Unfortunately, today Russia has jets that see farther and missiles that fly farther.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Yuriy Ihnat<\/strong> &mdash; Spokesman, Ukrainian Air Force, 3 June 2025<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>That admission came even after Ukraine received American <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-16-fighting-falcon\/\">F-16s<\/a>. Kyiv&rsquo;s Vipers fly the war they are permitted to fly: low, far behind the line, superb against cruise missiles and drones. Against a Su-35 holding an R-37M at altitude, they mostly do not get the chance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A loss ledger nobody agrees on<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Count the Su-35s Russia has lost and you get a different answer from every source. The International Institute for Strategic Studies counted more than five destroyed by May 2023. The War Zone&rsquo;s open-source accounting put the visually confirmed figure at eight by June 2025. Ukrainian claims run to roughly 25. Fighterbomber, reporting this week&rsquo;s collision, put the total at ten. None of these can be reconciled, and anyone quoting a single clean number is guessing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The confirmed entries make unflattering reading for a premier air-superiority fighter. Two were downed by Patriot batteries over Bryansk within eight days in May 2023. One was destroyed near Tokmak in September 2023 by Russia&rsquo;s own S-300, a friendly-fire kill by a system that could not tell whose Flanker it was tracking. The first loss of the war, on 3 April 2022 near Izium, ended with the pilot captured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Across four full years, not one Su-35 loss has been independently confirmed as an air-to-air kill. Its killers, so far as anyone can prove, have all fired from the ground, and one of them was Russian. Now two more appear to have been taken out by each other.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Su-35S has driven enemy aircraft low.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Sergey Chemezov<\/strong> &mdash; Chief Executive, Rostec, the conglomerate that builds the Su-35<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>On that narrow point, the Russian and Ukrainian accounts broadly agree. Where they diverge is on what it cost. The Royal United Services Institute concluded in a January 2026 assessment that Russia&rsquo;s fighter fleet has managed only a handful of air-to-air kills in four years, despite expending R-37Ms against an opponent flying older jets with weaker warning sensors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>And here is the number that should worry Kyiv more than any loss tally. RUSI assesses that only around 20 Su-35S and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-30-flanker\/\">Su-30SM2<\/a> airframes combined have been lost or damaged beyond repair since February 2022, while the Komsomolsk-on-Amur line has delivered every year of the war. By that reading, Russia ended the war&rsquo;s fourth year with slightly more modern fighters than it started with. Ukraine is attriting the Su-35 more slowly than Russia is building it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Which is what makes an own-goal over Kursk quietly expensive. Ukraine has spent four years struggling to shoot these aircraft down. On Sunday, by every account available, two of them did the job without any help at all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bgtdAGtTXDQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">A walk through the Flanker family&rsquo;s evolution from the Su-27M to the Su-35S.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What happened to the two Su-35 fighters in Kursk?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in mid-air over Russia&rsquo;s Kursk region on 7 September 2026. According to the Fighterbomber Telegram channel and the outlet Pepel. Kursk, one pilot was killed and the other ejected but was injured. The cause has not been established and Russia&rsquo;s Defence Ministry has issued no statement.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Ukraine shoot down the two Su-35s over Kursk?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No Ukrainian official or unit has claimed the aircraft, and the reporting describes a collision rather than a shootdown. Some Russian bloggers suggested Ukrainian involvement without presenting evidence. With no official cause released by either side, any attribution at this stage is speculation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Su-35s has Russia lost in the war in Ukraine?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Estimates do not agree. The International Institute for Strategic Studies counted more than five destroyed by May 2023, The War Zone put the visually confirmed total at eight by June 2025, Fighterbomber cited ten this week, and Ukrainian claims run to roughly 25. RUSI separately assesses around 20 Su-35S and Su-30SM2 airframes combined lost or damaged beyond repair since February 2022.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Has a Su-35 ever been shot down by another fighter?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Not confirmably. Across four years of war, no Su-35 loss has been independently verified as an air-to-air kill. A widely circulated claim that a Ukrainian F-16 downed one near Korenevo in June 2025 originated with the German outlet Bild and has never been independently confirmed. The verified kills have all come from ground-based systems, including one Russian S-300 friendly-fire loss near Tokmak.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What makes the Su-35S different from other Flankers?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Su-35S is the most heavily upgraded manned Flanker in Russian service. It first flew in May 2011 and entered service in 2014, and combines AL-41F1S thrust-vectoring engines with the Irbis-E radar, the Khibiny electronic-warfare suite, an infrared search-and-track system, fourteen hardpoints and the very-long-range R-37M missile. It descends from the Su-27M, whose first prototype flew in 1988.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is Russia running out of Su-35 fighters?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. RUSI assesses that deliveries from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur plant have continued every year of the war and that Russia ended the war&rsquo;s fourth year with slightly more modern fighters than it began with. Losses have been real but slower than production, so the Su-35 force has not shrunk.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What happened to the two Su-35 fighters in Kursk?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in mid-air over Russia\u2019s Kursk region on 7 September 2026. According to the Fighterbomber Telegram channel and the outlet Pepel. Kursk, one pilot was killed and the other ejected but was injured. The cause has not been established and Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry has issued no statement.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Did Ukraine shoot down the two Su-35s over Kursk?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No Ukrainian official or unit has claimed the aircraft, and the reporting describes a collision rather than a shootdown. 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Kursk; The Defence Blog; Kyiv Post; Militarnyi; 19FortyFive; The War Zone; Royal United Services Institute; International Institute for Strategic Studies.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/russia-claims-su-35-downed-two-su-27s\/\">Russia Claims One Su-35 Downed Two Su-27s<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/russia-su-35s-third-batch-2026\/\">Russia Delivers Its Third Su-35S Batch of 2026, Size Undisclosed<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/russia-su-35-kh-31pm-anti-radiation-ukraine-2026\/\">Russia Sends the Su-35 After Ukraine&rsquo;s Radars<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/mig-29-r-60-banderol-intercept-low-altitude-2026\/\">MiG-29 Downs a Russian Banderol With a 1973-Era R-60 Missile<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided over the Kursk region, killing one pilot. 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