[QUOTE]Pro-Russia rebels shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet on Sunday, before Kiev and Moscow's top diplomats were due to hold urgent talks to defuse tensions over fighting in the east of the ex-Soviet nation.
Ukraine's military said its MiG-29 warplane had been shot down as it carried out "an assignment to eliminate a large group of terrorists" in the Luhansk region. The pilot managed to parachute to safety, it said.
Authorities in the main rebel city of Donetsk said shelling had killed 10 civilians in 24 hours as government forces pressed on with an offensive to oust separatists.
Meanwhile, Germany demanded that Moscow clarify boasts by a rebel leader in the besieged city that he had recently received hundreds of fighters trained in Russia to bolster the flagging rebellion.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine's foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, and their French and German counterparts are due to meet in Berlin.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/ukraine-fighter-jet-shot-down[/url]
Looks like they're going for broke now and don't care what might potentially happen. I fear military escalation if this keeps up.
no, not the fulcrum
what a waste of a cute plane
At least the pilot got out.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;45717506]At least the pilot got out.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they won't stick him in the same plane to go out and do it all over again
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;45717493]no, not the fulcrum
what a waste of a cute plane[/QUOTE]
They're awesome, except for the fact that they hemorrhage fuel like you wouldn't believe.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;45720185]They're awesome, except for the fact that they hemorrhage fuel like you wouldn't believe.[/QUOTE]
Not really, not for the kinds of speeds it achieves. High speed at high altitude means high combat range, even if its in the air for less time than similar planes.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;45717493]no, not the fulcrum
what a waste of a cute plane[/QUOTE]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/MiG-29_Fulcrum_B_Luftwaffe.jpg[/t]
[I]"hey guys, look at my cool remote controlled plane"[/I]
hope the ukrainian airforce can afford to keep the pressure up with the planes they still have
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;45722127]Make a kickstarter to buy Ukraine new planes, problem solved.[/QUOTE]
apparently they got 45 of them back from russia when they siezed crimea because they were inoperable at the time, since then they've been bringing them back into service
I wonder what they shot it down with? Maybe the same possible Buk missile system as that airliner? Pretty scary when a rebel force can shoot down a fighter, especially one that's supposed to be on the retreat.
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