Posted on 02/09/2018 10:02:47 AM PST by Simon Green
The pilot of a shot down Russian Aerospace Force Su-25SM attack aircraft, when cornered by insurgents last week, reportedly resorted to his personal weapons and was not taken alive.
According to releases from the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major Roman Filipov, 33, was shot down by a shoulder-launched missile near the town of Maarrat al-Nu’man on Feb. 3 while on a routine patrol. Ejecting in an area controlled by Al-Nusra — a jihadist group labeled as terrorists by both the U.S. and Russia — Filipov continued his fight once on the ground.
In a statement from Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian air force, “Being badly wounded, and when distance from militants reached several dozen meters, the Russian officer exploded a hand grenade.”
The Sun, a tabloid in the UK, among others reported that, before his death, the 18-year veteran radioed to his base in Khmeimim that he had shot two insurgents and, before setting off the grenade that killed him, yelled, “This is for our guys.”
In 2015, Russian state media detailed that aircrew operating in Syria were carrying AK pattern rifles, and Stechkin APS machine pistols with several 20-round magazines to use should they have to eject.
The non-profit Russian-language Conflict Intelligence Team think tank posted images of items purportedly recovered from the wreckage including handwritten notes and a Stechkin APS pistol with three partially loaded mags, one of which appears empty.
Filipov, whose remains were repatriated to Russia through the help of Turkish officials, was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Russian Federation, that country’s highest title. He was honored in Voronezh, his hometown, about 300 miles from Moscow, on Thursday. Among the crowd of 30,000 who attended the snow-covered ceremony were his widow and four-year-old daughter,
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I’ve appreciated the mans courage when first reported...and like reading it over again as well. He knew better than let them take him alive....so he took them out on the way.
Only a fool is taken alive by jihadis...Only a fool is taken alive by jihadis.....That would be a fate worse than death is 100% of cases.
Yep!
I did a search for “peckerwood” and got nothin.
Peckerwood is prison talk. It’s slang for a white guy, supposedly an insult. White gangs in prison adopted as a term of pride.
Of course you don’t talk to Soros.
You are a member of his walking army of mindoless robots who stain the internet with the latest talking points he sends out to his moronic minions.
gandalftb is on stimulant drugs today, rabidly posting his moronic garbage.
No man. I meant I didn’t find it on your list. Just a suggestion.
“Russkis are big on heroes - and heroic statues”
You mean golden calves and communist idols? And leaving Lenin’s preserved body in open display in Red Square to this day? While leaving the vast majority of communism’s Russian victims buried in oblivion?
You mean blackmailing Poland when it gets rid of such idols and calling Ukraine traitorous for tearing down Lenin statues and renaming streets named for Soviet despots?
And this poor man in question committed suicide in the same vain as Japanese in WWII. God is His final judge of course but one thing you may find of interest: his pitiful salary while alive.
“Russian military blasts betrayal after media leaks deceased pilot’s salary”
Did you write that yourself?
I’m impressed, that has to be the longest reply I’ve ever gotten.
You forgot “stump-dwelling herbivore”.
At least you didn’t insult my horse or my dog.
I’m saving that reply to a file.
WatchungEagle says I’m a neocon liar, post #33.
Lazamataz says I’m a Soros Clown, post #41. Sounds like you agree.
Could you guys get together and make up your minds?
If us mindless robots cover that much political territory, they’re going to make me Secretary General of the UN and stop all this staining of the internet.
What’s the point of insults? They only demonstrate impatience and ignorance.
If you want to push back, cite some references and sources, I did.
No one, not even you, has countered them.
GS-R
Believe as you wish - this is a free country, for now.
Having lived in and worked with Ethic Russians for an extended period of my life - this in the ruins of the old Soviet, I can only speak to my personal, on the ground experiences with the people and my observations of the culture of that part of the world.
I had no idea you are Russian ex-pat....
Putin reversed the long, arduous, but necessary spiritual and moral progress of his people who were climbing out of the rubble of the USSR. - Sadly, with help from the frauds who infiltrated the Orthodox Church, and the hardened hearts of average Russians as well: the Putin era has overseen Russians attempt to “rebuild” on the rubble and ashes without clearing way for solid, new foundations first.
You do realize Russia is at war with its brother Ukraine?
Obviously all is not well.
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