Pac3 don't care you have flare.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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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 π
No the thing shat itself in fear and you can't convince me otherwise
Looks like one missile went for a flare a few seconds before the hit.
Flare flare flareβ¦
Flare flare flare
Flare? splosion
too far away, ukrainian air defense says it's work of S200. it has required range
You dodge but hey, we'll take you down anyway! πΆ
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.
Nowβs Japanβs chance to recover its Northern Territories (βKuril Islandsβ)
For Posterity:
Holy shirt
that was the last time, this is another
Good news, thanks.
Holy shit, I thought it was the one from January... Thanks!
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Nice
What are those lights that keep "falling behind"? Anti missile flares?
Yeah, the A-50 apparently knows it is under attack and is launching anti-IR flares. It is also launching anti-radar chaff, though you wouldn't be able to see that on video at night.
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.
this could be anti-missile missile shot by russian SAM
Can you imagine being in a burning airplane thatβs 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
A lot of brown tracksuits.
Bingo.
All the house music thumpin' while orks are going down in flames π€£
Just had a side-flash (Flash-Side?)β¦ 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
Is the sound at 1:46 the same explosion seen at 1:04?