The commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, showed a photo of the Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft armed with this type of rocket, mil.in.ua website reports. Another photo was also published on social networks. These aviation rockets are designed to hit ground targets, fortifications, other objects and columns of enemy equipment on the march.
In January 2023, the U.S. included 4,000 Zuni air-to-ground unguided rockets in one of its military aid packages for Ukraine. The Zuni 5-inch Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), or simply Zuni, is a 5.0 in (127 mm) unguided rocket developed by the Hunter-Douglas Division of Bridgeport Brass Company and deployed by the U.S. armed forces, and the French Air Force. The rocket was developed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations. It can be used to carry various types of warheads, including chaff for countermeasures. It is usually fired from the LAU-10 rocket pod holding four rockets. The Zuni was most actively used by the US Navy and Marine Corps in military campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular in Vietnam.