Boing
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DCS doesn't have this version of the drone in the game. DCS also doesn't show propellers with this level of detail, more of just a blur.
It's also not tail 1234. There's 3 digits after a smaller set of characters in front like this:
I'm not convinced either way, but it doesn't match DCS at all.
Boing
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Беспилотник США MQ-9 Reaper найден у Севастополя на глубине около 900 метров
Специалисты российского военного ведомства смогли обнаружить упавший в Чёрное море американский беспилотник MQ-9 Reaper в день происшествия 14 марта.
sevastopol.su
Specialists of the Russian military department were able to detect the American MQ-9 Reaper drone that fell into the Black Sea on the day of the incident on March 14. The drone was found at the bottom of the sea, 60 kilometers from Sevastopol, at a depth of 850–900 meters. This was reported to ForPost by its own source close to the Russian Defense Ministry and familiar with the details of the operation.
According to him, at the moment, a Russian warship is on duty on the surface of the water in the area where the US aircraft crashed. The perimeter zone of the drone crash site is also guarded. The source reports that now experts are developing a decision on further actions to lift this drone from the seabed.
Such funds, according to a qualified ForPost interlocutor, are at the disposal of the army and navy, and now a plan is being developed for the possibility of their effective use in the fall zone of the MQ-9 Reaper.
The specialist, in an interview with ForPost, noted that the internal electronic "stuffing" of the drone, as well as its engine, is of interest to the Russian Ministry of Defense. In turn, he notes, a scenario is not ruled out in which US forces will try to destroy the drone using their own means before it is raised to the surface.
Recall that the American MQ-9 Reaper drone fell into the Black Sea on the morning of March 14 as a result of sharp maneuvering. At around 9:30 a.m. (Moscow time), as confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry, the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface. It was noted that the American drone was flying with transponders turned off and in violation of the borders of the area of the temporary regime for the use of airspace, which was established at the time of the NWO.
As ForPost wrote , an American military reconnaissance drone MQ-9 Reaper crashed as a result of approaching a Russian Su-27 fighter jet, which was flying at supersonic speed.
10dementianal
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This shit still doesn't make sense, why are you dumping fuel from behind the drone...make it make fucking sense. Dump the fuel in front of the drone so dumb lol.
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Boing
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the closing speed differential is probably in the hundreds of km/h
The stall speed of a Flanker is slower than the cruising speed of a Reaper. I think this goes back to the "amateur" pilot thing. They didn't have to close that fast at all.
10dementianal
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the closing speed differential is probably in the hundreds of km/h
probably less honestly, but it still doesn't make sense. Are the Russian pilots that incompetent that they couldnt match speed plus 50 get in front and dump fuel? This maneuver to climb and bank up and way from behind while dumping fuel behind you in a location where the drone no longer is seems pointless.
businesses hate this one simple trick for employees forced to go on a business trip because their company is to damn cheap to even afford comfort plus to cancel the flight.
well im sure they kept dumping after they passed it. they need to start before passing to make sure they have it going when they pass. i get it. but they are still retarded mongoloids
10dementianal
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sure but if you are dumping above it while you pass, by the time the fuel falls the reaper will be ahead in space sooooo lol?
the comments section of the NY Times post about this drone video reinforced why i am glad we dont have direct democracy
not saying representative democracy is working perfectly, but the comments are ridiculous.
lots of mediocre brains out there.
not saying representative democracy is working perfectly, but the comments are ridiculous.
lots of mediocre brains out there.
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People need to remember that we are living in a time of global information warfare. Commentary from foreign agents and bots are a real threat, so comments you are reading online cannot be extrapolated as representative or truthful of Americans.
I'm suprised the west hasn't clamped down on social media in regards to this. But also understand as it's difficult to moderate.
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whatever
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agreed.
social media is cancer.
the ability to comment and read comments is not something we are/were mentally prepared for.
When news was news and not theater, you watched it, listened to it, or read it. digested it on your own, maybe discussed it with family or friends, or people you knew at your workplace.
its just too much for people.
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Boing
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these god damn geo nerds
autism is powerful
but nothing so far has beaten those idiots that found shia from the fucking stars
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WARSAW — Poland will deliver an initial batch of four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments.
The planes are in “full working order” and will be delivered in “the next few days,” Duda said at a news conference in Warsaw alongside his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel. The delivery would mark the first time any of Ukraine’s NATO allies have delivered jets.
“We are literally sending these MiGs to Ukraine at this moment,” he said.
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