- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 11•7 months ago
What are those lights that keep “falling behind”? Anti missile flares?
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 5•7 months ago
Yup. Around the 50 sec mark a missile hits one of them off to the right, before another hits the plane itself a bit later.
- skillissuer ( @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•7 months ago
this could be anti-missile missile shot by russian SAM
- player2 ( @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•7 months ago
Here is an interesting article I found
that I think is about this event. It was a team effort between Ukrania S-300 and US Patriot PAC-3 missile systems to lure the planes in and then destroy them.Sounds like there are only a dozen Russian A-50 remaining in operation, even fewer in the modern configuration, and even fewer qualified radar techs trained to man the tracking stations in the rear.
- Hubi ( @Hubi@feddit.de ) 4•7 months ago
There was also this incident:
- skillissuer ( @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•7 months ago
that was the last time, this is another
- player2 ( @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•7 months ago
Good news, thanks.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•7 months ago
Nice
- neuropean ( @neuropean@kbin.social ) 2•7 months ago
Can you imagine being in a burning airplane that’s taking that long to go down? Talk about worst final moments.
- skillissuer ( @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•7 months ago
missile split plane in half, and if what i heard is accurate, it was S200, it has 200kg warhead, i don’t think that crew was alive immediately after impact
- TransplantedSconie ( @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
All the house music thumpin’ while orks are going down in flames 🤣