{"id":53252,"date":"2024-05-25T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russian-knights-aerobatic-display-aircraft-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T11:32:26","slug":"ukraine-destroys-russian-knights-aerobatic-display-aircraft-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=53252","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Destroys &#8216;Russian Knights&#8217; Aerobatic Display Aircraft On The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Satellite images show <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> used drones to destroy a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sukhoi\/\">Sukhoi<\/a> Su-27 Russian Knights aerobatic jet (NATO reporting name Flanker) on the ground last Sunday. The Russian Knights are the aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force (something <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/red-arrows-fleet-history\/\">similar to the famous British Red Arrows<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a> puts a good deal of emphasis on its military parades, especially the May 9 Victory parades. The Russian Knights (or  \/Russkie Vityazi) is one of the most common sights during these important events.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to three Flankers were destroyed or damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack &#8211; including the first Russian Knights aerobatic aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,120,3434,8086,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-russian-air-force","category-su-27-flanker","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53253,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53252\/revisions\/53253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}