Embed CodePlays: 1288 (Embed: 0)Dudayev was killed on April 21, 1996, by two laser-guided missiles when he was using a satellite phone, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call.At the time Dudayev was reportedly talking to a liberal deputy of the Duma in Moscow, reportedly Konstantin Borovoy. Additional aircraft were dispatched (a Su-24MR and a Su-25)
to locate Dudayev and fire a guided missile. Exact details of this
operation were never released by the Russian government. Russian reconnaissance planes in the area had been monitoring satellite communications
for quite some time trying to match Dudayev's voice signature to the
existing samples of his speech. It was claimed Dudayev was killed by a
combination of a rocket attack and a booby trap. He was 52 years old.