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2017-10-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Did a Russian Missile Really Hit an Israeli F-35?

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 if a missile traveling at 4000mph had hit a jet traveling at 2000mph, you'd think there would be a pretty big bang.

Posted by lord garth 2017-10-29 01:43|| 2017-10-29 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 But it was a Russian (Ivan Ivanovitch Crow) bird, Darth.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-29 02:23|| 2017-10-29 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Because most Soviet missiles of that type are proximity weapons, exploding at a preset distance from the target and using quantities of shrapnel to fatally damage the target, I would add some validity to this. We are using pre-WWII soviet technology as the basis of our stealth program and you would think the Russians would be able to delve into the math and figure out countermeasures.

BTW spraying the sky with countermeasures only makes you that much easier to find.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-10-29 13:24|| 2017-10-29 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Pro-Russian media? Maybe the reports are true, maybe not. Pravda has about as much credibility as Mad Magazine.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-29 14:25|| 2017-10-29 14:25|| Front Page Top

#5 And NY Times.

Posted by gorb 2017-10-29 15:07|| 2017-10-29 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe it was a Soviet era "You pretend to pay us and we pretend to fly into engine intakes" bird.

Posted by SteveS 2017-10-29 15:16|| 2017-10-29 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 When was this "bird strike" and at what height?
I doubt an F35 would be doing a low-level bombing run over Syria

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-10-29 15:23|| 2017-10-29 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 This might be relevant:

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I gave your link a word to attach to, Albemarle Dingle5877. Next time type a word or phrase, select it, and then click on the link icon and paste in the URL.

Update at 12:25 a.m.: Fixed my fix -- how horribly embarrassing.

Posted by Albemarle Dingle5877 2017-10-29 16:27|| 2017-10-29 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Link keeps disappearing.

Search on F-25 sale to Australia Oct 6 for background .....

Posted by Albemarle Dingle5877 2017-10-29 16:28|| 2017-10-29 16:28|| Front Page Top

#10 The original source is southfront.org, a Russian propaganda site justifying the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They now do the same for the Russian intervention in support of the terrorist Assad family. About as credible as Batboy.

Posted by Black Bart Omeasing1539 2017-10-29 18:09|| 2017-10-29 18:09|| Front Page Top

#11 ...and now the racist slavophobes have descended to impunging the honesty of Batboy.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-10-29 20:47|| 2017-10-29 20:47|| Front Page Top

#12 linkie w colon

Posted by Crererong Bonaparte2013 2017-10-29 22:38|| 2017-10-29 22:38|| Front Page Top

#13 I was momentarily afraid that was a sex link!

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-29 23:21|| 2017-10-29 23:21|| Front Page Top

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