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The Russians shot down one of their own planes
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FoxtrotDeltaTango sh.itjust.works FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
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Ilovethebomb sh.itjust.works Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-08
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Russian stealth technology meets Russian air defence.

Do you think the bomb bay was open perhaps?
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MaggiWuerze feddit.org MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-02
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How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all
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Tar_Alcaran sh.itjust.works Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-06
#4 · Quote Reply

*another one
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yesman lemmy.world yesman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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You'd think in a war with the same aircraft being used on both sides that the belligerents would invest in some robust IFF.
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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-09
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That happened as well in the Solzhenitsyn book "1917" when the Russians were shooting at the Cossacks, and vice versa. They were both on the same side! I laughed like a loon when I read that, but I was a younger man back then.
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Tar_Alcaran sh.itjust.works Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-06
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MaggiWuerze wrote:
How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all

Was
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Aqarius lemmy.world Aqarius@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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melsaskca wrote:
That happened as well in the Solzhenitsyn book "1917" when the Russians were shooting at the Cossacks, and vice versa. They were both on the same side! I laughed like a loon when I read that, but I was a younger man back then.

It happened surprisingly often before widespread radio.
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RidderSport feddit.org RidderSport@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
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MaggiWuerze wrote:
How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all

The AA-crews wanted to make sure it was Russian, so they shot it down at which point it definetly was Russian, by virtue of not flying
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Ariselas piefed.ca Ariselas@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-03-14
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RidderSport wrote:
The AA-crews wanted to make sure it was Russian, so they shot it down at which point it definetly was Russian, by virtue of not flying

I hear a lot of drunk Russian soldiers get put in AA
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