Тимофей Потапенко wrote:
Frits Kuijlman wrote:
Excellent bit of video footage - you can very clearly see the fighter coming in and launching the missile.
Russian MiG29 shooting down a Georgian UAV from the UAV's perspective...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7358761.stm
Nah, that's clearly an abchazian AA gun. At least according to the Kremlin :-)
Dunno... if it can intercept a recon UAV and it's an "AA gun", I'm kinda wondering about an ESU grav AFV -- which is worrying... ;-)
Well, that's quite really a good fotage. And that's surely Russian aircraft (MiG-29 or SU-27), or that may be Turkish F-15, cause there are no other twin-tails in that region (but what would Turks need over Abhasia?).
More to the point, I don't think the Turks have F-15s, so it'd
have to be a USAF Eagle or an Israeli one; whoever it belongs to, it's
very, very lost if it's operating over the Georgia-Russia border area... :-)
And, being Russian, I can believe, that Russian airforce hits Georgian UAV. But besides the question "What did Russian fighter do over Abhasia?" there is another question "What did Georgian UAV do there?" Because in fact Abhasia is not a Georgian territory. During the war in 1994-95 Abhasians withdrew Georgian army and gained practically independance. And both sides ceased fire only after UN-troops (Russians) stood brtween them, and they had an agreement that neither Abhasian nor Georgian planes would not fly over each other's territories. But during last three years Georgians are very provokative.
Funny, that's what they say about the Russians... but let's not get
into that argument. The Georgians and the Russians are doing that quite
well enough.
Phil
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