Georgian drone shot down by Russia??

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Just watched this on the BBC news website, and I have to say I'm not convinced by it's authenticity:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7359514.stm

Georgia an ex-Soviet state firstly using plain English on the image overlay seems odd to me, not to mention the fact that it looks totally post-processed...

I wonder if the entire thing is CGI tbh, no idea why they would fake it but the video looks like something from an episode of Alias more than real spy-drone footage.
 
If the drone was bought from the US/UK or even somewhere like Israel it'll likely have English as the default software setting, and as most professional pilots know enough English to use it to arrange to take off/land at unfamiliar airports I wouldn't discount the footage based on the language used for the software (also I believe most cockpit instruments will use Grecian numerals rather than Cyrillic or Roman for things like airspeed/height).

Having said that it does look faked.
 
I saw that earlier. Looks pretty good. Although, why did Russia send one plane? If Russia saw it as a threat surely they'd send at least 3 just in case something gets nasty. Which leads me to believe they knew what the drone was and shot it down just to be provocative.
 
What's with the crys of fake on everything?

Looks real to me, see the wake turbulence from the Mig as it passes through the missiles smoke.
 
surely when the drone was hit by the missile the video overlay would have dissapeared when the video stopped? you know, as the missile destroyed the drone?
 
Also occurs to me that it's odd they actually caught it on camera at all. There's a lot of sky out there and fighter jets are fast, not to mention they can employ beyond visual range weapons also.

In this video the jet flies straight into field of view and launches a very short range missile at it. At that kind of range it would be easier/cheaper to use cannons I'm sure.
 
I would imagine they went in for visual identification, realised that it was unmanned and just shot it down. If it was manned I would doubt they would have shot it down.
 
Aod said:
surely when the drone was hit by the missile the video overlay would have dissapeared when the video stopped? you know, as the missile destroyed the drone?
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The overlay was probably added at the receiving end, hence the "master fail" or whatever the message was at the end when the receiver lost the signal.
It would make sense for that to be the case, as it means the drone doesn't require as much hardware (saving weight and costs), and the receiver gets a "clean" take, which it then adds the overlay to for the operator (with the clean version + data being separately recorded for later review on more advanced equipment if need be).
 
Aod said:
surely when the drone was hit by the missile the video overlay would have dissapeared when the video stopped? you know, as the missile destroyed the drone?
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Yeah that's a bit weird, but I guess it's because the video, and the data is transmitted separately, and that the overlay froze as soon as the data stopped transmitting, rather than disappear all together.

Interesting stuff none the less!
 
I guess the real question is, who's airspace were the aircraft in when the drone was shot down.

Surely that's a more relevant point as someone must have been trespassing...
 
Werewolf said:
If the drone was bought from the US/UK or even somewhere like Israel it'll likely have English as the default software setting, and as most professional pilots know enough English to use it to arrange to take off/land at unfamiliar airports I wouldn't discount the footage based on the language used for the software (also I believe most cockpit instruments will use Grecian numerals rather than Cyrillic or Roman for things like airspeed/height).

Having said that it does look faked.
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It was an Israeli Hermes drone I believe.

I think it's real, certainly in keeping with recent Russian behaviour towards what it sees as its future empire.
 
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