This is aq candidate for stupidest BS lie ever posted on FR, NOBODY can shoot a warplane down with a hunting rifle.
Very bad day for Ukraine and a very bad day for American mercs.
Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (August 20, 2022)
💥Near the settlement of Andreevka, Kharkiv region, as a result of a high-precision weapon strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the combat positions of the Kraken nationalist formation and a unit of foreign mercenaries, more than a hundred militants, including up to 20 American mercenaries, were killed.
💥The battalion of the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was almost completely destroyed by the strikes of the operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Velikomikhaylovka, Dnepropetrovsk region , the losses of which amounted to at least two hundred nationalists killed and more than 150 wounded.
💥As a result of fire strikes on the combat positions of the tank battalion of the 28th mechanized brigade in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Kiselevka, Mykolaiv region, as well as the 212th rifle battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Apostolovo region of the Dnipropetrovsk region , the total irretrievable losses of the enemy amounted to more than two hundred people.
💥 Up to 130 militants and eight units of special vehicles were destroyed by a ground-based high-precision weapon strike at the area of ​​concentration of personnel and military equipment of the 27th battalion of the 127th territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the north of Kharkov .
💥In the areas of the settlements of Zvanovka and Paraskoviyivka of the Donetsk People’s Republic , more than two hundred personnel, two tanks and seven special vehicles were destroyed by high-precision air-launched missiles in the 3rd and 12th battalions of the 25th airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
💥 During the day, seven command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit, including the 53rd mechanized brigade in the Vodiane area, the 58th motorized infantry brigade in the Soledar area of ​​the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as manpower and military equipment in 187 districts . Destroyed: a self-propelled launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the Shevchenko area, four ammunition depots in the areas of the settlements of Galitsinovka, Konstantinovka, Shabelkovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Belaya Krinitsa of the Kherson region, three fuel depots in the Slobozhanska district of the Kharkov region, Konstantinovka and Galitsynivka Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as the US-made ANTPQ-36 counter-battery radarnear Kramatorsk.
💥 Russian air defense systems destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Vrubovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic, Novomikhailovka, Staromlynovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Bogoroditskoye in the Nikolaev Region, Novozlatopol in the Zaporozhye Region and Fedorivka in the Kharkiv Region. In addition, 13 shells of the Alder multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the air in the area of ​​​​the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region and the city of Militopol, Zaporozhye region.
Years ago there were stories that a F-16 returned to Selfridge ANG base after some low flying exercises innnorthern Michigan with some buckshot in the fuselage.