{"id":27761,"date":"2026-07-17T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=27761"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:23:26","slug":"tail-torn-off-ukrainian-drones-decimate-russian-tu-95-strategic-bomber-deep-inside-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=27761","title":{"rendered":"Tail Torn Off: Ukrainian Drones Decimate Russian Tu-95 Strategic Bomber Deep Inside Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The myth of secure airspaces in Russia has been shattered yet again. Following yesterday\u2019s successful long-range drone offensive against the notorious Engels airbase, fresh assessments reveal devastating structural losses for the Kremlin&#8217;s strategic aviation fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Primary Casualty: A high-value Tu-95 strategic bomber\u2014actively used to launch heavy cruise missile strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine\u2014has been completely neutralized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critical Damage: Preliminary monitoring reports indicate the aircraft suffered terminal structural failure, with its entire tail section completely torn off during the blasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Defense Mirage: Located more than 750 km from the frontlines, the Engels base was supposed to be untouchable. Instead, Russian air defense systems proved entirely helpless against Ukraine\u2019s evolving, low-signature drone technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia&#8217;s strategic bombing capacity is shrinking with every passing week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The myth of secure airspaces in Russia has been shattered yet again. Following yesterday\u2019s successful long-range drone offensive against the notorious Engels airbase, fresh assessments reveal devastating structural losses for the Kremlin&#8217;s strategic aviation fleet. The Primary Casualty: A high-value Tu-95 strategic bomber\u2014actively used to launch heavy cruise missile strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine\u2014has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}