Wait, I thought Ukrainian grandmothers were knocking down Russian jets with cucumbers?
LOL!!!! ;)
That is not accurate. They have, however, been taking out Russian naval vessels with leeks.
Funny, my wife wanted to watch "Top Gun" as it was being shown on television, we don't have cable so I don't watch television at all, but I have a 3D version of "Top Gun" and convinced her to watch that instead so I don't have to sit through the commercials.
It is a silly movie, but...there are a lot of Navy pilots who still love it for a variety of reasons.
There is a former F-14 pilot named Ward Carroll who has a channel on YouTube, and he is pretty good, but he has a video titled:
LINK: 21 Cringeworthy Errors in the Movie TOP GUN
It is hilarious to watch, but...he does have a notice saying something like it may destroy your ability to enjoy the movie, so be warned!"
Heh, in one, he talks about the scene were a pilot goes to pieces and can't fly his plane back to a landing, and is fixated on a picture of his wife and baby which is taped over...probably one of the most important dials...the Airspeed Indicator!!!!
In another one, he points out a scene with a bunch of pilots walking on the flight line, and one of them is peeling an orange! FOD! (that one really did make me laugh, it would be like a doctor going into an operating room eating a bag of Doritos!
Anyway, knowing how dangerous cucumbers might be for **some** Ukrainian grandmothers, we can guess how effective they might be if lobbed into the intake of a passing Russian jet! (for decades after, instead of legends of female Soviet snipers holding off the Huns, there would be cucumber wielding Ukrainian grandmothers decimating the Russian air force! (When "The Ghost of Kiev" isn't shooting all the rest down in a video game...)
“Wait, I thought Ukrainian grandmothers were knocking down Russian jets with cucumbers?”
No! They were knocking them out by spitting sunflower seed shells at them.