I am almost more surprised that they didn’t have to eject because they ran out of fuel after dumping it on the drone
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Pretty huge exercise going on - dozens of support aircraft alone as well as Draken out in force, never mind the combat stuff - got US, UK, France and various shared NATO assets involved.
Yeah I'd say this is the truth... no one uses a fighter jet as a battering ram, shirley?
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Either way, it’s still quite an aggressive act surely?
Probably thought the drone only had a downwards camera, lol.
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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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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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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.
Also apparently a Heinkel was pushed out of the way of Buckingham Palace and Spits/Tempests used to tip the wings of V1’s.
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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
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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.
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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...
just my opinion of it, different class of weapon in my view.
A self-imposed restriction at best, there's nothing fundamentally dangerous politically about jets beyond their immense cost.
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 )
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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Just like tanks were? Please stop falling for Russian propaganda on the mythical red line that has already been crossed multiple times.
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