caveat emptor wrote:About A-50 shot over Azov Sea:
Some more horse shit from 404
caveat emptor wrote:About A-50 shot over Azov Sea:
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flamming_python wrote:What's this nonsense they're cooking up?
The A-50 is a blatantly legitimate military target.
The Ukrainian Colonel acted competently and professionally. There is no need to arrest him. Only to take him out given that he's a military target himself.
Less law & order grandstanding and more targeted strikes I say.
Are you sure this isn't a fake story or fake source?
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caveat emptor wrote:There is a sledcom site link with the news. Check it if you want. I don't understand what is the point of this, i agree.
I posted this more because of the coping part of this forum. Which is in majority, when it comes to Russian losses. One already commented. Greetings, comrade Mir!
FP, be a buddy and, please, explain our western "Russia experts and patriots" what is sledstveni komitet
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flamming_python wrote:
Well, that is the Investigative Committee's site, but the article on their site makes absolutely no mention of what aircraft the Ukrainian officer shot down.
If that's all it says then I would sooner assume that they're refering to the shot down transport aircraft that was carrying Ukrainian POWs. And that would allow the arrest warrant to make sense too.
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Mir wrote:Greetings captain "Murrica"
Why would they arrest someone that has shot down a strategic Russian asset?
caveat emptor wrote:It says it was patrolling and it says it happened on February 23. This is when Ukrainians claimed A-50 was downed. Il-76 in Belgorod was downed in January. Also, mentions 10 people dead and in IL-76 downing over 70 people were killed.
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flamming_python wrote:
Well, that is the Investigative Committee's site, but the article on their site makes absolutely no mention of what aircraft the Ukrainian officer shot down.
If that's all it says then I would sooner assume that they're refering to the shot down transport aircraft that was carrying Ukrainian POWs. And that would allow the arrest warrant to make sense too.
The article does mention 10 crew being killed. But the A-50 has a crew of 15. Not sure about the A-50U.
While we do know that the transport aircraft that was carrying the POWs had a crew of about 10 or so.
It's strange in that case that they don't mention the killed POWs, only the crew, but I guess they avoid saying it for the same reason they avoid any details on the incident itself and what plane was destroyed.
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Tu-134, seriously?! We are not in the 1980's, anymore.Mir wrote:
More likely that it could have been a Tu-134 or even an Il-18 on a training mission for what we know.
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The VKS still uses Tu-134 bomber aircrew training aircraft:Tu-134, seriously?! We are not in the 1980's, anymore.
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-army-officer-confirms-russian-a-50-radar-jet-was-shot-down-with-patriot-missileArrow wrote:If it was a Patriot, it would have to have a much greater range than 160km. Currently only Skyceptor.
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caveat emptor wrote:
Coping of some members is really hilarious.
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Tsavo Lion wrote:What if the Russians won't allow any pics of destroyed A-50s leaked out?
It's called military censorship. Meanwhile, NATO preps its nukes:
https://www.ng.ru/world/2024-06-17/1_9029_nato.html?print=Y
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/06/17/ukraines-f-16-pilots-have-a-problem-theyll-have-to-fly-low-to-survive-and-that-impedes-their-missiles/
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thegopnik wrote:looking at last year and probably the end of this year there wont be major changes on the map. Still there are some Ukrainians in Germany they didnt send back and the pace of the war allows more defensive lines to be built. US is ready to draft their soldiers into Ukraine next. I will give this war maybe like another 5 years until it's over.
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flamming_python wrote:
It's strange in that case that they don't mention the killed POWs, only the crew, but I guess they avoid saying it for the same reason they avoid any details on the incident itself and what plane was destroyed.
Big_Gazza wrote:I have seen zero evidence that any A-50 were shot down, not one iota. :
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