wait, is this saying the most recent A-50 was friendly fire?
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.
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
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.