• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I’ve seen rumors of that, there are apparently videos of Russian air defenses firing at it too.

    Nothing official as far as I’ve seen (but I haven’t seen it all), and the videos of Russian defenses firing might have been firing at the missiles inbound to the A-50 vs at the A-50.

    What matters is that it was disassembled rapidly at altitude.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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      7 months ago

      Ukrainian air defenses say it was their work and it was (perhaps some new variant of) S-200. There are, of course, other explanations of varying credibility, such as:

      • it was Patriot (it was outside of maximum range)
      • it was Meteor or HARM integrated on F-16 or Gripen that already are out there
      • it was SOF MANPADS team
      • it was friendly fire (official russian copium)
      • it was meteorite strike (it just happens in russia)
      • it was ukrainian SAM, they just hid it in krasnodar region
      • it was F22 sneakily firing whatever
      • it was friendly fire, but caused by bribing russian S300 crew
      • it was Girkin after breaking out of jail
      • it was Prigozhin maneouver
      • it just did that

      what really happened? we may never know. the truth is out there

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        New intel from NCD: The A50 had too much spicy food last night and had a fatal case of diarrhea. This is supported by video evidence of bright red projectiles from the rear of the aircraft.