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Russia reeling as £38m fighter jet shot down by Ukrainian sea drone in world first
Express UK ^ | 5/3/2025 | John Varga

Posted on 05/03/2025 6:53:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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1 posted on 05/03/2025 6:53:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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This confirms my description of the Ukraine-Russian war as “The First Drone War”.

Sure, drones have been used in warfare, arguably since WWII.

But the Ukraine-Russian war is the first war where Drones have become, perhaps, the most important type of weapon in the war.


2 posted on 05/03/2025 6:57:13 AM PDT by marktwain
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Israel should have taken out Iran’s drone factories 3 years ago while they had the chance.


3 posted on 05/03/2025 7:01:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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From the article: "The sea drone was reported to be equipped with a R-73 air-to-air missile."

Maybe. More likely it was armed with a missile made by a U.S/British/German/French konglomerate.

4 posted on 05/03/2025 7:02:29 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: marcusmaximus

An F-15ski.


5 posted on 05/03/2025 7:04:50 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem.)
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6 posted on 05/03/2025 7:08:24 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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SU-30 Russias Best?
Drone should be analyzed to and Compared to Our Reaper Drone and it’s Missles.
.
This is Huge!


7 posted on 05/03/2025 7:09:47 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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“...as £38m fighter jet shot down by Ukrainian sea drone”

I suspect that by the time the drone reached the plane it was already in the water.


8 posted on 05/03/2025 7:14:24 AM PDT by BobL
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Wondering if Putin has figured out yet that he’s actually fighting against NATO?


9 posted on 05/03/2025 7:17:08 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: BobL; All

Video of the shootdown:

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/6Vcd9SdZ


10 posted on 05/03/2025 7:19:27 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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“I suspect that by the time the drone reached the plane it was already in the water.”

?

The drone did not reach the plane.


11 posted on 05/03/2025 7:20:33 AM PDT by TexasGator (11.1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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I'm absolutely sure 'Russia is reeling as £38m fighter jet gets shot down'. After all,
the US is also reeling as a $60 million fighter jet gets accidentally lost overboard.
/sarc

Who writes these brain-dead tabloid headlines?

;^)

12 posted on 05/03/2025 7:22:25 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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England shoots down another Ruzzian jet! A victory for NATO and the Labor Party Liberals. Keep poking the bear—they can’t fight back with NATO shield.


13 posted on 05/03/2025 7:23:43 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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I think the Russians can survive the loss of a single plane.

The BIG QUESTION is how many state-of-the-art, highly classified, Western Systems are we needlessly going to send to Russia for their examination and reverse-engineering. Already, they’ve sent China the details on our Underwater Anti-Ship Drones that Taiwan WAS planning to use to defend themselves against Chinese landing craft...so, yet, another weapons system made obsolete by the Neocon War in Ukraine.

So, we’ll be ‘thanking’ you guys when China STEAMROLLS over Taiwan in the near future.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 7:24:47 AM PDT by BobL
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Mark your calendar, Maxi!
On June 7th 2025, the “supposedly” war-torn city of Kiev will host the

———KyivPride 2025 Manifesto———

https://kyivpride.org/en/


15 posted on 05/03/2025 7:26:50 AM PDT by ANKE69 ( 🇺🇲 Let's MAGA 🇺🇲)
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To: BobL

Putin started this, not your imaginary “Neocons”.


16 posted on 05/03/2025 7:27:11 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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“Putin started this, not your imaginary “Neocons”.”

Thanks, I figured you were cool with giving away our secrets to China to make it easier to take Taiwan.

By the way, I AM NOT cool with that.


17 posted on 05/03/2025 7:30:38 AM PDT by BobL
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To: EQAndyBuzz

It’s a Soviet era aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30


18 posted on 05/03/2025 7:33:54 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: marcusmaximus

Not exactly what I consider a ‘drone’ but I suppose that depends on definition.

Generally, drone technology is a new problem...extremely versatile, hard to take out, relatively cheap, easy to make, and will be increasingly autonomous (vs. remote human control).


19 posted on 05/03/2025 7:34:57 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The very first casualty in any war is the truth.

This keeps getting forgotten on FR where we are constantly barraged with journalistic lies and propaganda from both sides, which is immediately pounced upon as factual and unbiased. You guys would have been an absolute disaster if the internet had been available to the public during WWII.


20 posted on 05/03/2025 7:36:12 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin? Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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