Pac3 don’t care you have flare.
Probably automatically deployed along with chaff. Just dropping everything. There was an initial explosion in the upper right of the video. Might have shaken the first missile. Fortunately the operator remembered to double tap 😉
Flare flare flare…
Flare flare flare
Flare? splosion
too far away, ukrainian air defense says it’s work of S200. it has required range
Looks like one missile went for a flare a few seconds before the hit.
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.
- To start.
- One was destroyed on the ground by partisans landing an explosive drone on the radar and setting it off.
- one a few weeks ago
- this one now.
Usually at least 1 will be undergoing maintenance. so they have 5 to cover the entire Russian airspace. I guess the eastern side of Russia is not that important anyway.
For Posterity:
Holy shirt
that was the last time, this is another
Good news, thanks.
Nice
Just to make sure I’m understanding what I’m seeing, the plane gets hit at 1:03. The regular bursts of light from the start of the video to 1:01 are aircraft flares? Possibly parachute flares? At least some Russian aircraft apparently have parachute flares. At 0:23 you can see smaller flares being shot out to the side of the main flare. I think many aircraft flares fire in this sort of pattern because it makes the flares better mimic the shape of an airplane. Bonus points for looking really cool:
Can you imagine being in a burning airplane that’s taking that long to go down? Talk about worst final moments.
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
Masters of the Air does a really good job of showing this, terrifying.
A lot of brown tracksuits.
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Bingo.
Is the sound at 1:46 the same explosion seen at 1:04?
Just had a side-flash (Flash-Side?)… where this video was of an A-10 being tracked and shot down.
I imagined that the fully formed USSR was still here, and the US was fighting against the mfing Cossacks like Hizler and mf Napoleon before him, and we scared absolutely shirtless
