The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian 96К6 Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system in the Kherson region.
The South Joint Task Forces reported this on Telegram.
The system was hit in the middle of a field near the village of Chaplynka, and the OSINT community managed to identify the approximate location of the Pantsir at the time of its destruction, namely at coordinates 46°20’19.2″N 33°30’11.1″E.
The means of the system’s destruction is not reported, the footage shows a munition falling almost vertically on the Pantsir.
Given the position’s distance from the contact line (almost 50 kilometers), it can be assumed that it was destroyed using a drone or 227 mm GMLRS rocket ammunition.
None of the high-precision artillery munitions available in the Ukrainian arsenal can hit at this distance. For example, the range of the 155-mm M982 Excalibur ammunition is 40 kilometers.
The fact that the Pantsir fired an anti-aircraft missile before being destroyed may confirm the drone attack.
However, the possibility of launching at a drone that was targeting and fixing a defeat or other air target should not be ruled out.
Militarnyi recently reported on the destruction of a rather rare Russian RB-636 Svet-KU electronic warfare system in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian reconnaissance drone tracked the movement of equipment and targeted rocket artillery on it. The incident took place in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
Judging by the footage of the published video, the vehicle of the Russian RB-636 Svet-KU EW system was hit by a GMLRS rocket fired from the HIMARS launcher.
This is the third loss of the Russian army to such an electronic warfare system during the full-scale war against Ukraine.