“Agreed, how bout that ooops ordinance drop over Geogia (lol). Glad to know others are keeping some eye on whats going on over there. Good to meet ya!”
Russian politics have always interested me. They have some odd twists and strange ways of looking at things. My favorite picture from the war in Iraq was the one with the Polish special forces posing with a Seal team. Wish I had that one available to post. Good to meet you too. I haven’t heard about the drop. Hopefully they weren’t armed..heh.
*** It went a little like this. Russia flies over Georgia and accidently drops an unexploded ordinance in some farmers frield in Russia. It then becomes a finger-pointing “who done it” game (lol) Serious stuff, but I was starting to refer to it as the mythical misguided missle.
“Georgia Identifies Russian Missile
// And destroys it on the spot
The scandal surrounding the missile dropped in Gori District in Georgia continues to develop. Experts from the Georgian Defense Ministry identified it as an antiradar guided missile of Russian manufacture. Georgia does not have missiles of that type in its arsenal. Georgia demanded that an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council be called to discuss the incident. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry denied all accusations made against the Russian Air Force and called the incident a new provocation that threatens to complicate the situation in the region. Kommersant has attempted to find out what the experts were able to determine from the wreckage of the Kh-58 missile.
Georgian Defense Ministry experts made public their findings from a day’s study of the wreckage of the missile that fell near the Georgian village of Tsitelubani Monday evening. It was a Russian-made Kh-58 antiradar guided missile 4.8 m. in length, 0.38 m. in diameter weighing 640 kg. The missile, according to the Georgian experts, carried a warhead with 140 kg. of explosives.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed those details and added that the missile was dropped by an Su-24 aircraft that entered Georgian airspace from Russian territory. Georgian diplomats cite the country’s defense ministry as claiming that the country has neither aircraft nor missiles of the types mentioned.”
Full:
http://kommersant.com/p793939/r_527/international_relations/