A MiG‐31 aircraft capable of carrying
Kh-47M2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles crashed in Russia’s Lipetsk Oblast, state propaganda agency TASS reported on Oct.
9.
According to the report, the crew ejected and survived.
Russian Telegram channel Mash wrote that the jet was on a routine training flight without ordnance when its landing gear failed to deploy during landing approach. The aircraft went down in a forested area of the Chaplyginsky District. Emergency crews have since extinguished the fire on site.
On June 9, Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck the Savasleyka airfield near Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod, damaging two aircraft. “MiG-31K fighters, which carry Kinzhal missiles, regularly take off from this military facility,” the General Staff said.
Preliminary reports at the time indicated two enemy aircraft were hit, likely a MiG-31 and a Su-30/34.