Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

failed to hit its target by a mile

Still much better than JDAM.



Captured Ukro tank

So the Su-27 pissed on, sorry dumped fuel on, the MQ-9            

Hopefully then the pilot set light to it, sorry turned the afterburner on which accidentally ignited the dumped fuel Or, more likely it just ignited on the MQ-9's hot exhaust. If so what a brilliant plan, downed the MQ-9 without actually attacking it. Clearly an unfortunate accident. I wonder how the US knows what happened.

The Russian Navy, on behalf of the USAF will now attempt to recover and return the drone to the US.  

The USAF now being reminded how different life will be fighting a peer state, not a 3rd world country like what their past enemies have been. Pity it wasn't a Global Hawk but that no doubt was a conscious decision by the RuAF.

Jeff Seldin
@jseldin
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BREAKING: #Russia|n Su-27 collides with US MQ-9 drone over the #BlackSea

Per @US_EUCOM
, the Russian aircraft was 1 of 2 conducting " an unsafe & unprofessional intercept" when it struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing US forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in
int'l waters"
Jeff Seldin
@jseldin
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MORE: Before #Russia|n Su-27 hit the US MQ-9 drone, "the [two] Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound
and unprofessional manner" per @US_EUCOM
Jeff Seldin
@jseldin
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"Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in int'l airspace when it was intercepted & hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash & complete loss of the MQ-9" per US Air Forces Europe & Air Forces Africa Cmdr Gen. James Hecker
Jeff Seldin
@jseldin
US commander warns the #Russia|n Su-27 was almost lost, as well

"This unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash" per Gen Hecker

@US_EUCOM
says the incident " follows a pattern of dangerous actions by Russian pilots...over intl airspace"

March 14 this year over the waters of the Black Sea in the area of the Crimean peninsula, the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces recorded the flight of an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle in the direction of the state border of the Russian Federation. The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle was carried out with transponders turned off in violation of the boundaries of the area of ​​the temporary regime for the use of airspace, established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, brought to all users of international airspace and published in accordance with international standards. In order to identify the intruder, fighters from the air defense forces on duty were raised into the air. As a result of sharp maneuvering around 9.30 (Moscow time), the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface. Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with an unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to their base airfield. wrote:

https://t.me/mod_russia/24818

Oh boy, this will age well

Here we go again:

In the West, they reported the collapse of a key fortification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk, 03.14.2023.

German journalist Roepke reported on the collapse of the key fortification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemivsk.

MOSCOW, March 14 - RIA Novosti. The correspondent of the German newspaper Bild, Julian Roepke, reported on the fall of the critical defensive lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemivsk.

"Another Ukrainian line of defense in Bakhmut (Artemovsk. - Ed.) collapsed, and Russian forces <...> entered the northern industrial quarter. The Wagner Group is located at the Vostokmash plant, where in December (President Vladimir. - Approx. ed.) Zelensky honored the Ukrainian troops defending Bakhmut," he wrote on Twitter.

According to the journalist, the fortification system was the "last hope" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to create a strong line inside the settlement.

“Now it is gone. The Russians can move forward street by street,” Roepke said.

Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev -controlled part of the DPR, north of Gorlovka, and is an important transport hub for supplying the Ukrainian group of troops in the Donbass . Fierce battles are going on for the city. The founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin , reported that its fighters practically surrounded the settlement.

https://ria.ru/20230314/ukreplenie-1857892579.html

I come here because the pro Ukraine narrative is everywhere and hard to escape. I like the fanbois here, though seig I must say you got some gall calling nafo tier pro globohomo posters "more objective fanboys". I hate this dumb propaganda war and nafo and "osint experts" and slava ukraini twats coming to this board to post nonsense. You wanna be a good stooge for neocon foreign policy then go on twitter or reddit.

There are claims out there that the Russians actually downed a Global Hawk, FORTE-10, not a Reaper, 18 miles off the Crimean coast. Waiting to see if one of the Flight Tracker sites comes up with this. Saying its a Reaper to reduce impact.


Not sure about this

Donbass Devushka
@PeImeniPusha
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According to the published recordings of radio conversations of Russian pilots, there is reason to believe that the wreckage of the American MQ-9 Reaper UAV that fell into the Black Sea was picked up by the Russian military.


Dumping fuel on US ships was used by a Su-27 pilot many, many years ago to dissuade them from getting too close to Russia, in the days when NATO ships sailed in Russian water, in the Arctic during the Cold War. It worked, they stopped as Kerosene is horrible stuff.

EDIT - here we go

Translated:

Since the U.S. accused a Russian fighter pilot of leaking kerosene to an American drone in the air, it is hard not to recall the story of Vasily Tsymbal.

Rain of stinky kerosene...

Vasya Tsymbal was a graduate of the Armavir Aviation School and, like all the guys from there, was famous for his ability to accurately perform the assigned combat tasks, though... Not quite standard and, I would even say, very unorthodox approaches. His favorite trick was the tricks with the fuel.

Another such stunt just happened in the Far East, when one of the Japanese patrol boats (with a couple of helicopters on it - a kind of unofficial aircraft carrier) crossed the border between neutral waters and Soviet territory. Unfortunately for the Japanese, Vasya Tsymbal was in the sky, and he quickly figured out what to do. Having made a couple of low-altitude turns over the ship, he made sure that it was not going to change its course and decided to try and frighten the uninvited guests. Ascending to a higher altitude, he turned and began to dive at the Japanese. The Japanese were frightened - the provocation went too far, and no one knew whether the Soviet pilot was ordered to attack.

In the end Tsymbal flew at cruising speed 5-6 meters above the deck and literally blew one of the helicopters into the water, and then, apparently in a wave of excitement, said to the airwaves in a short but succinct voice: "**** the kitty!" The Japanese, hearing one of the most expressive expressions of Russian swear words, turned the ship 180 degrees and gave full speed. But that was not enough for the show-off Vasya. While the Japanese ship was in Soviet waters, Vasya decided to practice his favorite trick. Flying over the cuckoo's nest of unhappy provocateurs, Tsymbal turned on the fuel drain and showered kerosene rain on the military of the Land of the Rising Sun. The descendants of the samurai could not stand such disgrace and in droves ran to make hara-kiri to complain to their superiors.

Almost immediately after Vasya's return to the base, they call him to the carpet (the base heard everything too) and, upon learning the details, they breathe a sigh of relief - thank God, no one was killed - and send him to the other end of the country, so that, if anything happens, they can say that "the pilot is not ours" and "he left for Murmansk two weeks ago".

Once in the north, Vasiliy Tsymbal did not change his habits. In September '87, however, it was always turbulent near the Kola Peninsula - American and Norwegian NATO pilots were flying quite often, several times a day entering Soviet airspace, and aircraft carriers, from which these planes were taking off, were plowing through the Barents Sea. When Vasya ran to his faithful Su-27 for the seventh time in 24 hours, putting on his helmet on the way... Probably he wanted very much to use lethal fire and nuclear missiles to be sure.

But no appropriate orders were given, and Tsymbal was left with only his good old trick. After coaxing his comrade, he joined him in making the Americans rain stinking kerosene. Strange as it may seem, it helped a lot - the Yankees began to appear in the region considerably less. And there were no repercussions for Basil.

(c) by Timothy Berdikin