Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Shadowness said:
Either way, it’s still quite an aggressive act surely?
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I wonder if Russia assumed they could get away with it, did they think the drone had no alternative live video feeds and capability is like the rubbish they have i.e. DSLR with image retrieval once landed.

Hope for F22 escorts in the future.
 
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dLockers said:
Yeah I'd say this is the truth... no one uses a fighter jet as a battering ram, shirley?
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Maybe the Russians have finally run out of shovels so having to resort to beating things to death with fighter planes?

In all serious though their are some very good stories of pilots who have rammed other aircraft. One that springs to mind is when a US F4F Wildcat pilot beat a Japanese bomber into the sea, using his extended undercarriage.
 
StriderX said:
The US should start up reforger 2.0 as a consequence of the mere loss of a drone and use Poland/Finland/Baltics as the operating grounds for it.

That'll teach em.

Also Chrome Dome 2.0 for added paranoia when the new B21 drones come into play.
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Just stop short of Able Archer 2.0 as the Russians seemed to struggle separating the original exercise from reality in 1983 and the current Kremlin staff might be more twitchy than were 40 years ago.
 
Fire_fly said:
Maybe the Russians have finally run out of shovels so having to resort to beating things to death with fighter planes?

In all serious though their are some very good stories of pilots who have rammed other aircraft. One that springs to mind is when a US F4F Wildcat pilot beat a Japanese bomber into the sea, using his extended undercarriage.
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Also apparently a Heinkel was pushed out of the way of Buckingham Palace and Spits/Tempests used to tip the wings of V1’s.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
What happened to Ukraine’s ZU-23 Shilkas? They were busy modernising them with improved fire control and air search radar when the Russians invaded.
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Yeah.

I'm not defending Biden here, he has a long career of questionable statements and votes. I'm just not sure he can be seen as someone who enjoys a war in the last decade or so. No one can hold what happened after 9/11 against many politicians. Although Obama to his credit spoke out and campaigned against the Iraq war before Congress voted for it, he was just a state senator at the time though
 
Fire_fly said:
Maybe the Russians have finally run out of shovels so having to resort to beating things to death with fighter planes?

In all serious though there are some very good stories of pilots who have rammed other aircraft. One that springs to mind is when a US F4F Wildcat pilot beat a Japanese bomber into the sea, using his extended undercarriage.
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I recently finished reading Neptune’s Inferno, the story of the naval battles around Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands which mentioned this. The F4F pilot was out of ammunition and was trying to prevent the Japanese Betty bomber from torpedoing a US aircraft carrier IIRC.
 
Poland giving 4 MIG-29`s to Ukraine and others to follow after servicing them. Or so say Sky.

This could spiral out of control now with NATO supplied jets VS Russian jets.
 
There's something about that drone footage I find a bit odd : in the shorter version, after the Russian jet flies overhead, you can see the rear propellor is still intact but spinning very slowly. In the longer version the propellor is very damaged with a bent blade. Did the drone get "buzzed" twice ? ( some news sources reported 2 Russian jets intercepted )
 
Goksly said:
Why? What's the difference compared to nato supplied artillery and shell vs infantry? So long as it's not got nato personnel in, its still the same...
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Accuracy, more chance that it hit the direct, gun barrel is better quality and even if you miss target it's like 50-100m away than soviet one which is produced for mass, less quality and you shoot at it goes 500m away from target
 
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xaldub said:
There's something about that drone footage I find a bit odd : in the shorter version, after the Russian jet flies overhead, you can see the rear propellor is still intact but spinning very slowly. In the longer version the propellor is very damaged with a bent blade. Did the drone get "buzzed" twice ? ( some news sources reported 2 Russian jets intercepted )
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It was buzzed twice.
 
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