Sukhoi Su-34
The Sukhoi Su-34 is a Soviet- and Russian-designed twin-engine, two-seat strike fighter developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau. It is intended to deliver guided and unguided munitions against ground and naval targets in contested airspace. The aircraft entered service with the Russian Air Force in 2014. Su-34s have been extensively used by Russian forces during the war in Ukraine to strike Ukrainian positions.
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Ukrainian Navy strikes Russian Borisoglebsk airfield with Neptune missiles, hitting six Su-34M bombers
On the night of October 15, Ukraine's Naval Forces struck the Borisoglebsk military airfield in Russia's Voronezh Oblast using the Neptune coastal missile system. According to the Ukrainian Navy, six Russian Su-34M fighter-bombers were hit, with President Volodymyr Zelensky and a Navy spokesperson specifying that four were destroyed and two damaged. Aviation support equipment was also destroyed, and fires and secondary detonations were reported on the airfield grounds. Russian authorities had not commented on the attack as of reporting.