Ok… in the world today there are many hot spots and problems that sometimes doesn’t really reach the news. Sometimes they are full on gun battles, and in this situation that PointNiner pointed out, its a “what us?” moment…
In this video a Russian MiG-29 fighter aircraft shows up, squeezes off an little air-to-air missle and blows a Georgian UAV out of the sky… on camera.
So we have a Russian MiG taking out a ex-Soviet Georgian unarmed UAV that was doing basic surveillance over Georgian soil (according to the Georgians). Whether that is true or not, I would imagine the political fallout over this incident could get ugly. Seems that there is a bit of unrest over there to begin with. But we can give a big thanks to the Russians and Georgians for this nice video.
Oh, and the Russian’s response: “Nonsense. What would a Russian jet be doing over Georgian territory?”
This is kind of hard to miss. And decently hard to fake, provided that the Georgians don’t have any fulcrums themselves and didn’t mistake a surveillance drone for a target drone. More then likely a jet was hot dogging and decided to take out a target of opportunity… thinking it was in the wrong.
Or… first thing that came to my mind, a jet protecting something that “they: where afraid of getting caught doing.
All in a all a cool video though, that missile was faster then one thought.
Tags: Interesting, Military, Politics, Video
August 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
The Russians now invaded Georgia during the opening ceremonies of the 2008 summer Olympics.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
yeah, I noted that the day it happened.