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[–] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How were they supposed to know it was Russian? It was flying after all

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  • [–] 27 points 3 days ago

    Russian stealth technology meets Russian air defence.

    Do you think the bomb bay was open perhaps?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago

    *another one

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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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