"Off to gulag".
Posted on 07/18/2022 7:25:43 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A $36 million Russian Su-34 bomber was reportedly shot down by Russia's own forces over Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, Ukrainian media outlets claimed on Monday.
The jet was reportedly downed near Alchevsk, a city in the Luhansk region—one of the areas where the war is currently focused. Alchevsk is currently under the occupation of Moscow-backed separatist forces.
Videos and images shared by the Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Telegram messaging app on Monday appear to show the charred remains of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber.
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"Russian invaders from the air defense shot down their own plane, which was flying in the sky over Alchevsk," reported Ukrainian news outlet dialog.ua, noting that the incident could have taken place on Sunday when Ukraine's armed forces launched a targeted attack on military depots in the occupied city.
According to the Ukrainian news outlet Glavred, a video of the downed Su-34 aircraft was posted on local Telegram channels, and Russians at first commented believing that a Ukrainian plane had been shot down. The video was then reportedly deleted after it became clear that it was a Russian bomber.
Russian authorities have not commented on the reports.
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Shooting down one’s own aircraft has been a thing since WWI. Ground based AA artillery are infamous for indiscriminately firing on every plane they see. IFF can help but never discount buck fever.
Technically the SU34 isn’t a bomber. Ain’t media accuracy impressive?
The SU34 is a fighter/bomber not a “bomber”.
General Pavel has the anger with your post!
"Off to gulag".
I had an Army friend who was in the Air Defense Artillery field (I was Air Force).
He told me their motto in Germany was “If it flies, it dies.”
I asked did that apply to the USAF? He said—”Don’t fly over us unless you want to find out.”
Ruzzian clowns. If Vlad was informed, his blood pressure went through the roof.
Photos show that this air wreckage destroyed some Ukrainian field crops.
“IFF can help but never discount buck fever.”
Done Rooskie style. Russian pilots died and an expensive airplane was destroyed.
Air Moskva, but done by the Russians this time around.
Good news, comrade! The SAM works!
$36M for a fighter-bomber equivalent to the F-15E? I don’t think so. Not even by Russia’s creative accounting methods.
Russia announces a 300,000 Ruble reward for shooting down an enemy aircraft and hours later a Russian SU-34 is shot down by friendly fire. I think the idiot who did it will be a little disappointed in the “reward” he receives.
Wonder what the price tag is on that.
Well this is awkward. The woketards running our Navy just sank one of our own ships.
It was a decommissioned ship that was supposed to be sunk.
Why are you posting out and out lies?
It was a target ship — decommissioned to be a target in a joint exercise. Read your own link.
LOL great post
“real men of genius” FR award
Hey, I’ve done it — posting without reading, one of the true heritage qualifications on FR. I should have added an LOL as the correction was offered in good humor.
Boy am I embarrassed.
Boy am I embarrassed.
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