• @prettybunnys
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      104 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.

      • @[email protected]M
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        204 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
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          184 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.