La SSU colpisce un aereo della marina IL-38N prima dell’attacco del sottomarino classe Kilo a Novorossiysk

Great Work! Hopefully the Russians will leave more out in the open to destroy next time around! 

> A drone with a surface-to-air missile warhead equipped with 2,000 warheads directed downward was used to destroy the aircraft.

This is the translation I got from Firefox:

> To defeat the aircraft, a drone with a warhead of an above-ground detonation, equipped with two thousand striking elements directed downwards, was used.

It sounds like it was an airburst warhead similar to the ones on HIMARS and the 155mm artillery that you see kicking up dust over a wide area in some of the videos. This aircraft is roughly comparable to the US P-3 Orion in usage and performance and was recently upgraded. I know that the P-3 was also used over land in the US ([in Afghanistan and Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-3_Orion#In_Iraq)), don’t know if the IL-38N had similar capabilities but I would make an educated guess so. The loss of this aircraft should take away from the Russians ability to interfere with shipping to Ukraine.

The Il-38N is capable of launching anti-shipping cruise missiles and the ones exported to India are modified to carry and launch the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile but I’m unaware if the Russian IL-38N is a launch platform for land attack cruise missiles.