The Russians shot down one of their own planes

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The Russians shot down one of their own planes

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63926603

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Imagine a stealth aircraft being shot down by Russian air defence.

How embarrassing.

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The stealth is so good it bamboozled even its own team.

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At least this time it wasn’t a civilian airline…

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How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all

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The AA-crews wanted to make sure it was Russian, so they shot it down at which point it definetly was Russian, by virtue of not flying

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I hear a lot of drunk Russian soldiers get put in AA

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Russian stealth technology meets Russian air defence.

Do you think the bomb bay was open perhaps?

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You’d think in a war with the same aircraft being used on both sides that the belligerents would invest in some robust IFF.

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That happened as well in the Solzhenitsyn book “1917” when the Russians were shooting at the Cossacks, and vice versa. They were both on the same side! I laughed like a loon when I read that, but I was a younger man back then.

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It happened surprisingly often before widespread radio.

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