WNU Editor: In the above video the Military Summary Channel breaks down the history of US drones always being in the area when Ukraine launched major strikes on targets in Crimea. It is a long list, and you have to wonder why Russia has done nothing until now to stop it.
As to what is my take on this incident. It is hard to say because there is a lot of information that is still unknown.
But what is known is that a US military drone, with its transponder turned off, was flying towards Crimea and had entered Russia's Air Identification Zone with no warning. Besides entering a region that Russia has designated as a war zone that all civilian aircraft are prohibited from flying in, it also ignored all air traffic control calls. Russian jets were then scrambled to intercept it, and the rest is history.
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"Besides entering a region that Russia has designated as a war zone that all civilian aircraft are prohibited from flying in."
There really seems to be no international agreement on Air Identification Zones. the ones between Japan and China are ludicrous. It is almost as if neither side has or knows how to use protectors and rulers. It would not be surprising if they don't. You can sit on a bank board of directors as as improv actor of dubious distinction or be a professor who go half way through high school or further before learning how to read. So maybe they do not know how to use cartographical instruments.
I don't think much of Air Identification Zones, war zones or targeting of apartment blocks full of civilians.
The US should declare the air space over Moscow as part of its AIZ. Makes as much sense as anything else.
ok. drone had transponder off. That means it was not identifiable.
Any nation has an unidentified aircraft approaching its borders has a right to shoot it down.
that means the US, Russians,Chineses or the Argentinians or anyone else.
In an age of terrorism and nukes, it only makes sense.
Look at that, WNU protecting his shitty home country of R(etards)ussia. I bet if this was a Russian drone getting downed by an American airplane, he'd be all over it calling America the aggressor.
Transponder off, transponder on, the russian would have downed it.
Drones are expendable. Let’s not get excited. But the US can and should be more unpredictable in how it deals with future intercepts.
Like the Anon above me wrote, the whole point of having unmanned systems is being able to do risky things with them without the escalatory factor of losing a human being. At the end of the day this is no big deal.
10:50 is hilarious, as if our officials aren't openly bragging about killing tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, but somehow a drone would be escalatory. Got the blinders on like Seabiscuit.
The drone may have tech the russians do not have.
The drone operator was said to have corkscrewed the drone purposefully into the sea after it was damage. Hoe much control did he, she, xe or them have? You would think that they would have steered the drone further into international waters not closer to a base.
After Russians have killed so many civilians with artillery, any reason to go to war with Russia is a good one.
The Russian response? "Well if the ukrainians would have given up on day 3 we wouldn't have to shell civilians."
S any reason ...
Come on, don't be naive, of course they already have debris or even complete copies of the drones. Stop getting distracted all the time. There is something else here.
Wagner brought down and captured a fully intact MQ-9 over Libya in 2019. Russia totes it out to display at defense conferences in order to sell it's electronic systems
You aviation guys might know. If it is just a damaged prop, and your wings , flaps , tail and ailerons are still functioning, why would that machine go into a tail spin unless the operator did it on purpose?
How do you know it was only a damaged prop?
3:26. You are correct. I do not know.
That is what I got from the American reports and the video footage that showed a bent prop. But there may have been something more. In the era of bs....
maybe the Americans might have dumped her to create an incident, or the Russians shot her down with the jet's auto cannons.
who knows?
More likely a young pilot doing some Top Gun manoeuvres that got him into an international accident.
How on earth can the whole planet forget that pilots drops from the sky all the time? If it was a drone or plane, i don't care. This happens when the west is having "contractors" and hardware up the Russians face, daily. I'm just happy it isn't worse.
russia can do this against all drones in the area and nato will do nothing. Really makes you wonder
China has already stolen a lot of drone tech. So draw your own conclusion.
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