{"id":12459533,"date":"2026-08-15T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/russia-claims-su-35-downed-two-su-27s\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:15:27","slug":"russia-claims-su-35-downed-two-su-27s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/russia-claims-su-35-downed-two-su-27s\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims One Su-35 Downed Two Su-27s"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other\u2019s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. So when Moscow claims a single fighter dropped <em>two<\/em> enemy jets in one pass, it is worth a very close look \u2014 and a very large pinch of salt.<\/p>\r\n<p>On August 12, on the 114th anniversary of the Russian Air Force, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces Sergey Kobylash told the military newspaper <em>Krasnaya Zvezda<\/em> that a young pilot flying a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-35-flanker-e\/\">Su-35S<\/a> had shot down two Ukrainian <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-27-flanker\/\">Su-27<\/a> fighters with three missiles in a single dogfight. Ukraine has not confirmed losing the aircraft, and no independent evidence has surfaced. Treat it as a claim, not a confirmed result.<\/p>\r\n<p>Even as a claim, it is a striking one. The Su-35S is a single-seat, twin-engine multirole fighter \u2014 the most capable Flanker Russia flies in numbers \u2014 and the Su-27 is the original heavyweight air-superiority Flanker it descends from. One cousin of the family, Moscow says, beat two of the others while outnumbered.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;margin:22px 0;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><strong>Quick Facts<\/strong><br>\u2022 <strong>Claim:<\/strong> One Su-35S downed two Ukrainian Su-27s with three air-to-air missiles<br>\u2022 <strong>Source:<\/strong> Gen. Sergey Kobylash, Russian Aerospace Forces, via <em>Krasnaya Zvezda<\/em>, August 12, 2026<br>\u2022 <strong>Status:<\/strong> Unconfirmed \u2014 Ukraine has not acknowledged any loss<br>\u2022 <strong>Su-35S:<\/strong> single-seat, twin-engine multirole fighter, NATO \u201cFlanker-E\u201d<br>\u2022 <strong>Su-27:<\/strong> twin-engine air-superiority fighter, NATO \u201cFlanker-B\u201d<\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Moscow says happened<\/h2>\r\n<p>By Kobylash\u2019s account, the Su-35S was flying a combat air patrol to cover a Russian ground advance when it picked up two Su-27s on radar despite Ukrainian jamming. Outnumbered two-to-one, the pilot maneuvered into an advantageous position and fired three air-to-air missiles, claiming both jets.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is the kind of set-piece that reads well in an anniversary interview. It is also, conveniently, unverifiable: no gun-camera footage, no wreckage, no Ukrainian admission. Russian and Ukrainian air-loss claims are routinely inflated by both sides, and neither releases the data that would settle them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;After skillfully executing a maneuver and taking up an advantageous tactical position, [the pilot] fired three air-to-air missiles, destroying both Ukrainian aircraft.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gen. Sergey Kobylash<\/strong> &mdash; Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Russian Aerospace Forces<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1060948663  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:zQRA.cca9\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/ukrainian-air-force-su-27-flanker.jpg\" alt=\"Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flanker\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 \u2014 the type Moscow says it downed a pair of. Kyiv operates only a small surviving fleet of the heavy Flanker. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why two Su-27s would sting<\/h2>\r\n<p>Ukraine started the war with only a modest number of Su-27s and has lost several since. Every one is close to irreplaceable \u2014 the production lines closed decades ago and no friendly nation flies the type in numbers to backfill it. Losing two in a single engagement, if true, would be a genuinely bad afternoon for the Ukrainian Air Force.<\/p>\r\n<p>That scarcity is exactly why the claim deserves scrutiny rather than a headline. The more valuable the target, the more incentive there is to announce a kill \u2014 and the less likely the losing side is to confirm it.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The bigger picture<\/h2>\r\n<p>The context cuts against the triumphalism. Just weeks earlier, in July, a Ukrainian F-16 was credited by the top U.S. general with the first confirmed F-16 air-to-air kill of the war \u2014 a Russian Su-35. The Flanker-E has been on the losing end of headlines lately, which makes an anniversary-day two-for-one all the more useful to Moscow\u2019s messaging.<\/p>\r\n<p>None of that makes the claim false. It simply means the honest verdict is the boring one: Russia says a Su-35S pilot pulled off a rare double kill, and until Ukraine or the wreckage says otherwise, that is exactly all we know.<\/p>\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;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px\"><em>Sources: TASS (Aug 12, 2026); Krasnaya Zvezda interview with Gen. Sergey Kobylash; The Aviationist; Military Watch Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/su-30-vs-mig-29-flanker-fulcrum-soviet-hi-lo\/\">Su-30 vs MiG-29: Two Halves of One Soviet Idea<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/sukhoi-su-47-berkut-wings-on-backwards\/\">Wings On Backwards: The Su-47 Berkut<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other\u2019s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. 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