The latest attack against the Russian Be-12 Chayka seaplanes further underscores Ukraine’s commitment to a free Crimea. The Ukrainian intelligence service has struck again, using suicide drones to ...
“This is the first-ever strike on a Be-12 in history,” announced Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) following the destruction of two Beriev Be-12 Chayka amphibian planes and a Mi-8 ...
The Soviet Union designed the Beriev Be-12 seaplane in the late 1950s to hunt NATO submarines. But improving enemy air defenses doomed the slow, ungainly amphibian in that role, so it switched to ...