Su 27 vs Reaper Drone over Black Sea

We are not even signatories to the ICC, neither is Russia.

 

Russia has actually had not a single "good news" to boast about from the war since July; so, forcing down a drone might have to do as for the last "great victory".

Rgds

 

The Russians will probably be proud of that.

Rgds

 

What would happen is they lit afterburners when they were dumping fuel?

 

We called that a torch with F-111s, but our dump mast was in between the burner cans. Not sure if a Flanker can safely ignite its dump or not. This is an F-111C from the RAAF torching at an airshow.

Brian- The Chinese military is a completely untested force with similar problems to Russia. Lack of flying time, leaders chosen because they toe the party line rather than for competence, and lack of real experience or exercise against peer opponents.



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Kind of what I thought. Very possibly another paper tiger. But a paper Tiger with nukes.

 

Here is the scary part.

If this was a pilot or a flight commander "going rogue", what the hell us could they do next? This is how you start a major crisis.

 

Thats always been a scary part. I know at least our military has historically tried very hard to vet people and have systems set up to require multiple people to do something really bad but I have met people in more recent times in high positions who I would't trust with a gun much less something that could make a really big noise. With the lack of control other big countries seem to have I think maybe we are running on a big dose of luck. Besides, if you remember Gulf of Tonkin even Presidents go rogue.

 

They're definitely running out of tanks:

https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/putin-modernizing-60-year-old-soviet-tanks-for-ukraine-war/

 

They are running out of modern tanks; who knows how many old tanks they might have in reserve: they never throwed anything away. Invasion has always been their scariest thought: they have not scrapped one tank since WWII; they must also still have T-55s, and maybe even T-34s in reserve. Numbers always mattered very much to them; as long as there will be still one single man standing, they won't stop.
The are surely running out of ideas, though.

Rgds

 

IS this drone equipped with such countermeasures? Im sure the AIM9 or whatever else it carries is/as more effective but sometimes simple wins.

 

I saw a video of a storage yard that had lots of T-54/T-55 tanks stacked on top of each other. But they looked so rusty that I rather doubt they could return them to full operating condition. And they would be more vulnerable than the newer tanks.

 

It doesn't matter to them, Jim. They would rather empty all what is left, even rusty, even XIXth century vintage ressource, even horses, swords, etc...
Than admit they were wrong. Forget logics. It's not about logics; they will not surrender to logics.

Rgds