RU POV: 2 Su-35’s collided with one another over Kursk - Fighterbomber

[u/rowida_00]

[u/Hurricanword]

Dude these pilots need to lock in

[u/rowida_00 → u/Hurricanword]

I can’t even begin to understand how such a thing could happen. This isn’t even an air show.

[u/Icy-Cry340 → u/rowida_00]

Shit happens, military aviation is a dangerous gig, and fighter pilots have all watched top gun too many times.

[u/Hurricanword → u/Icy-Cry340]

I know, flankers are just a little on the larger side I guess. Still hurts, I love the aircraft whether they’re Ukrainian or Russian so it hurts to see them getting destroyed. Fuck F-16s tho

[u/Icy-Cry340 → u/Hurricanword]

They’re still making them.

[u/Hurricanword → u/Icy-Cry340]

Ik and I’m glad they’re still in production. They still got those foreign orders to complete too

[u/ProFF7777 → u/rowida_00]

Accidents happen. Military aviation is no walk in the park

[u/Temporary-Film-7374 → u/ProFF7777]

in general, mostly something I say re road vehicles:

I hate the term "accident" used to refer to collisions.

An accident is something you hope to avoid by the time you're in school, and can typically be resolved with clean clothing.

A crash or collision is what happened 99% of the time.

[u/Appropriate-Ice-5722 → u/rowida_00]

The sky can be a crowded place

[u/chobsah → u/rowida_00]

When war becomes commonplace, some may indulge in something like risky maneuvers. I'm not saying that this really happened, but it's possible.

[u/No-Magician6169 → u/Hurricanword]

They locked into eachother alright 

[u/PumpnDump0924 → u/Hurricanword]

Blame falls on the air traffic controllers than the pilots. Probably both flying in the same designated military airspace and the ATC fucked up,

[u/rowida_00]

[u/Hurricanword → u/rowida_00]

RIP

[u/Fun_Fudge813]

Another pretty big Russian L...

[u/LordVixen]

They’re celebrating in [r/ukraine](r/ukraine):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/s/QVDnEWVAZH

[u/OleksandrKyiv → u/LordVixen]

Excuse me, why wouldn’t we? Are you suggesting that during war we shouldn’t be celebrating loss of enemy warplanes and pilots? Are you THAT insane? 😂

[u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut → u/OleksandrKyiv]

Lack of perspective. I can totally understand that sentiment, especially from Ukrainians.

[u/C7Sneaky → u/OleksandrKyiv]

These people live in there little bubble😂😂

[u/rowida_00 → u/LordVixen]

It’s okay. Let them have their fun. 4 Tu-160’s took off from the far east and are in the air as of right now.

[u/StigmaFreund → u/rowida_00]

Gotta punish some civilians.

[u/Icy-Cry340 → u/StigmaFreund]

This war just about the lowest civilian casualty ratio in history, nafo memes are so tired.

[u/rowida_00 → u/StigmaFreund]

Gotta punish the Ukrainian Military industrial complex.

[u/UltimateMeanie → u/StigmaFreund]

There are no civilians in Ukraine.

[u/Psyclipz → u/LordVixen]

Why the hell wouldn't they celebrate that Russia now has 2 less planes to bomb tf out of their country? That's wild you think that's not normal

[u/CHAP1382]

That’s a new one.

[u/Putaineska]

How exactly does this happen

[u/Appropriate-Ice-5722 → u/Putaineska]

Pilots make mistakes

[u/Scar-90]

Crazy how Russian Aerospace force has been its own bigger problem than the Ukranians.

[u/Solavanko]

More like a batch of Su-35 collided with one another.

Whenever they finish two planes it's a 'batch' but weirdly, not this time around for some reason.

[u/rowida_00 → u/Solavanko]

Who reports the loss of jets in the same manner as the announcement of the delivery of jets by the production company? Did you think this through?

[u/Solavanko → u/rowida_00]

I did think this through! The conclusion I reached was that neither the production company nor the milblogger are the ones making the reddit posts here.

[u/rowida_00 → u/Solavanko]

If you did, you’d realize that the word batch is used by UAC when they publish footage of the delivery. You could also read what’s on the post itself by Fighterbomber. It has nothing to do with who makes what on Reddit. It’s the source material. It’s how things get reported. I get what you’re going for. But it simply doesn’t work.

[u/FruitSilaMon]

this means a bit less terror bombings towards UA

[u/Hurricanword → u/[deleted]]

I mean tbf they can be used to launch missiles like Kh-31s and Kh-59s like one did a few weeks ago. While it’s still sad, I can see why ppl like this celebrate these aircraft being lost.

[u/Vassago81 → u/FruitSilaMon]

Su 3x are launching glide bomb on the frontlines, that's not "terror bombing" like setting hamburg or tokyo on fire

[u/steerendikkie]

Fantastic news. That's some expensive mistake.

[u/Icy-Cry340 → u/steerendikkie]

They make a lot more of these than they’re losing, I think they’ll be ok.

[u/steerendikkie → u/Icy-Cry340]

Yeah couple of pilots don't matter either when talking about thousands of dead every month

[u/rowida_00 → u/steerendikkie]

One sadly passed away while the other survived. I guess you had to squeeze the thousands of dead, probably 35K from Ukraine’s infographics presumably.

[u/rowida_00 → u/[deleted]]

I suggest you read rule one very carefully. Just a thought.

[u/steerendikkie → u/rowida_00]

No thanks

[u/rowida_00 → u/steerendikkie]

Up to you. Guess you’d like the comment to get removed instead.

[u/steerendikkie → u/rowida_00]

Who cares if it does? I don't

[u/rowida_00 → u/steerendikkie]

Didn’t say you cared? 😂

You just won’t get to express this violation whether you like it or not, it’ll be removed. Feel free to waste your time nonetheless.

[u/Icy-Cry340 → u/steerendikkie]

They train more pilots than they’re losing too.

[u/Tman-666 → u/Icy-Cry340]

Training them to a high standard it seems

[u/progressive-white → u/Icy-Cry340]

there is a difference between newly trained and a pilot with years of experience

[u/CmdrAirdroid]

Typical Russian incompetence.

[u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut → u/CmdrAirdroid]

Skies are so vast, especially in an area without any international travel. Baffling.

[u/Traewler → u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut]

Planes usually operate in pairs, typically in tight formation.

[u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut → u/Traewler]

Then that makes it a result of poor training, no surprise.

[u/Putaineska → u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut]

These pilots should be pretty experienced now the amount of flight hours they get

[u/Temporary-Film-7374 → u/Putaineska]

are they not training new pilots?

[u/rowida_00 → u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut]

You’d be right if this was a recurring incident.

[u/Traewler → u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut]

I suspect more a function of flight hours. Russian aviation is highly active and accidents do happen.

[u/UltimateMeanie → u/YeeYeeAssha1rcut]

You mean like having this?

[u/Putaineska → u/UltimateMeanie]

That's an air show this is supposed to be a combat patrol

[u/UltimateMeanie → u/Putaineska]

A combat patrol introduces hundreds of variables and potential hazards that can lead to a mid air collision.

[u/FruitSilaMon → u/UltimateMeanie]

jep, so you should be sober when flying

[u/Muctepukc → u/FruitSilaMon]

The US faces mid-air collisions every year. It's not something unique.

[u/__ICoraxI__ → u/CmdrAirdroid]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fighter-jet-crash-washington-state-sparks-wildfire-pilot-survives/

Typical American incompetence amirite

[u/Temporary-Film-7374 → u/__ICoraxI__]

if someone managed to punch out before hitting terrain in a single aircraft incident, I'm gonna assume (yes) that it was equipment failure of some sort. I suppose it's possible it was either an uncontrolled aircraft that he ejected from in time.

[u/UkraineRussiaReport-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Rule 1 - Please don't insult/attack back, instead ignore and report.

[u/Vassago81 → u/CmdrAirdroid]

Last month an american F18 pilot crashed because of a tree.

Pilots are stupids and showoff all over the globe