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Did a Russian Missile Really Hit an Israeli F-35?
2017-10-29
[Yahoo] Or is this just fake news?

Pro-Russian media are claiming that an Israeli F-35I was hit and damaged by a Russian-made S-200 surface-to-air missile during an Israeli air strike in Syria earlier this month. Israel says one of its F-35s was damaged—after colliding with a bird.
Posted by:Skidmark

#13  I was momentarily afraid that was a sex link!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-29 23:21  

#12  linkie w colon
Posted by: Crererong Bonaparte2013   2017-10-29 22:38  

#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  

#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  

#9  Link keeps disappearing.

Search on F-25 sale to Australia Oct 6 for background .....
Posted by: Albemarle Dingle5877   2017-10-29 16:28  

#8  This might be relevant:

link

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  

#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  

#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  

#5  And NY Times.
Posted by: gorb   2017-10-29 15:07  

#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  

#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  

#2  But it was a Russian (Ivan Ivanovitch Crow) bird, Darth.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-29 02:23  

#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  

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