c/noncredibledefense · by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 25dThe Russians shot down one of their own planes 174 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 56 pts · 25d
How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all
RidderSport@feddit.org · 13 pts · 25d
The AA-crews wanted to make sure it was Russian, so they shot it down at which point it definetly was Russian, by virtue of not flying
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 19d
I hear a lot of drunk Russian soldiers get put in AA
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 25d
Was
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 25d
Russian stealth technology meets Russian air defence.
Do you think the bomb bay was open perhaps?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 25d
*another one
yesman@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 25d
You'd think in a war with the same aircraft being used on both sides that the belligerents would invest in some robust IFF.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 25d
That happened as well in the Solzhenitsyn book "1917" when the Russians were shooting at the Cossacks, and vice versa. They were both on the same side! I laughed like a loon when I read that, but I was a younger man back then.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
It happened surprisingly often before widespread radio.