Posted on 03/16/2023 7:22:09 AM PDT by MeganC
202 views Mar 16, 2023 #russia #drone #blacksea US military officials have released a dramatic video of the moment a Russian fighter jet collided with a US drone over the Black Sea earlier this week.
The footage shared Thursday morning by the US European Command (EUCOM) was captured by the underside camera of the MQ-9 Reaper drone as one of two Su-27 fighter jets attempted to spray it with jet fuel.
On the second try, the jet collides with the drone’s rear propeller, and the screen pixelates as communication goes down.
An audio clip also purported to capture a Russian salvage team recovering the aircraft’s engine casing.
“We raised part of the object,” one voice says in the recording obtained by East to West.
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Who do you think you’re fooling?
This time last year weren’t YOU one of the people saying “Ukraine isn’t a real country”?
Putin did and you Russian tools all repeated it.
How can Ukraine make peace when Russia denies their right to exist?
We right now have troops, tanks, planes, and missiles in Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania?
So what’s Russia going to do about it? Hmmm?
No, actually, I didn't make that argument.
But, large parts of Ukraine were parts of other countries before the Soviets took over. Parts of Ukraine were part of Russia, Poland and Hungary.
And, ethnic Russians are no obligation to live under an illegally-formed Ukrainian nationalists government that wants persecute and kill them.
You're completely ignorant and really don't care about the history of Ukraine or the people in it.
Fortunately for your ethnic Russians Putin removed most of them to Russia.
That’s rich because he did the ethnic cleansing he accused Ukraine of doing.
Given that none of those areas are traditionally Russia with ethnic Russians in them, unlike Crimea and eastern Ukraine, nothing but points missiles back at those countries.
Nor is the combined number of troops and military arsenals of those countries comparable to what Ukraine had going into this war. And, as far as I know, none of those countries have biolabs with deadly pathogens like Ukraine did before this war.
Russia FAR better reasons to invade Ukraine than we did in EITHER Iraq war. So, you're hypocrisy is comparable to leftists and Democrats.
Huh? The ethnic Russians in Lugansk and Donetsk stuck around and fought to stay in their homeland despite Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis best attempts to kill them.
That's what has been going on for EIGHT YEARS. Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazis bastards we funded, trained and enabled were persecuting and murder ethnic Russians in Lugansk and Donetsk. Only someone ignorant or evil would support that.
This war would never have fought if we hadn't fomented an illegal coup in 2014, which you apparently are fine and dandy with.
Apparently we need to train the Ukies much better as they need to kill off a lot more Russian invaders.
At this point anyone with a Russian passport is not a Ukrainian but is just another invader.
I wish them Hell.
Again, you miserably failed to address my points. That is because the narrative you're spewing is a lie.
Why the hell should ethnic Russians live under the rule of an illegally-formed government of Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis that hate and want to kill them?
The real victims FOR EIGHT YEARS have been those in Donetsk and Lugansk.
BTW, Ukraine is getting its ass kicked in the proxy war. There is ZERO chance of Ukraine gaining back any lost territory. The Russians have a 10-1 edge in ammo fired.
“Are you idiot or extremist?”
It’s, “Are you an idiot or an extremist”
I suppose the English classes are shorter now.
Facts: Russia illegally invading eastern Ukraine means nothing legally. The international community and law do not recognize any of this land in the East as Russian territory. Same goes for Crimea.
“Ukraine is getting its ass kicked in the proxy war”
Russia is not only getting its ass kicked, but it has eroded any credibility of an effective Russian military. The logistics are out of the Napoleonic Wars.
The plan to conquer all of Ukraine has failed. Russian should leave now, or lose Crimea.
If that was plan, why did the Russians seek to have the Minsk Agreement implemented? Why did they come to us with their security concerns in December of 2021 trying to prevent this war? Why did they try to negotiate a peace settlement in Turkey last March?
At every turn, WE wanted this war. We wanted a proxy war with the Russians because thought we could win and turn Russia into what we turned Ukraine into -- a money laundering machine for our political elite, their financial backers and the defense industry.
And, only idiot would claim that annexing 40,000 square miles of land that comprised 70-80% of Ukraine's GDP, controlling almost the entire Black Sea coastline and building a land bridge from Russia to Crimea isn't a huge win for the Russians.
Spin, spin, spin...You're trying to spin 52-7 loss into a victory. But, no one with a brain believes it.
I know Soviet/Russ tactics very well. When they couldn’t take the airport quickly, the tactical surprise was lost. They wanted all of Ukraine, as Putin has stated leading up to the illegal invasion.
“Ukraine...is part of Russia”
A miserable failure of planning, execution, logistics and leadership. How does Russia get out? If Ukraine had better offensive weapons, they’d take much of the Russian held land back, especially Crimea.
Leave while you can Russian. The next FSB attack is coming.
“The invaders are in, and have been in Donbas...for the past eight years.”
Quite true. And now the Ukrainians are slaughtering them. Some 30,000 soldiers and mercenaries so far since the start of the year.
The victims of persecution and genocide were ethnic Russians in Donetsk and Lugansk.
God knows the truth and you and anyone else supporting what we and neo-Nazis have done there is accountable to him.
You're either sociopath or evil yourself.
We, under Biden, are the new evil empire. The "liberal world order", which is what this proxy war in Ukraine is about protecting and advancing, IS THE NEW COMMUNISM. It's pushing the LGBT, green agenda and the Great Reset, the agenda we see playing out in countries like the Netherlands.
No. I didn’t say Russia was communist you ignorant Russian bustud.
Russia is authoritarian dictatorship and an evil country. It’s only allies are other evil countries like Iran, China, and NKorea.
If the West is so bad, why did Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Baltics all run away from Russia and to NATO and the West? Because they were smart, they saw this coming. Now in comes Finland and Sweden.
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is the real target
I suppose the English classes are shorter now.==
It is called a barking. Anyways my English is better than your Russian.
Odd you hate Ukrainian nationalists but you just loooooooooove Putin the Russian nationalist.
Bigot.
But, I DESPISE THE GLOBALIST elite a-holes that our political class and their financial backers are comprised of.
This war is SOLELY about enriching them no matter how much taxpayer money it costs and regardless of whether they risk getting us involved in WWIII or nuclear war.
I have ZERO doubt that you're profiting in same way from this war.
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