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Offline Hornet33

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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #45 on: April 23, 2008, 02:02:53 PM »
Because after the USSR fell apart, they flipped old mother Russia the bird and went out on their own, started talking to Uncle Sam and that pissed em off.
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2008, 02:08:09 PM »
Yup.
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2008, 02:36:39 PM »
I wonder what kind of perk points he got for the shot?? LOL :t :rock :salute
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2008, 02:43:45 PM »
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In Real World it's called "interference into domestic affairs".

I think you lads have misunderstood Boroda here. When he says 'domestic', he doesn't mean Georgian domestic - he means Russian domestic.

There lies the problem, I think. For many Russians, the Ukraine et al are just rebellious regions of the USSR.
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2008, 02:50:30 PM »
While too lazy to read the wholw flimming thread, I'd ask how close to the Russian border the remote-recce was.
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I mean, airspace is so quickly passed, and was this enough to scramble the system of the Russians, or were  they just playing the evil joker with a target they knew to be a drone?

Next time, the drone will have a sidewinder, so georgy goes up the russky  :noid
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #50 on: April 23, 2008, 03:29:20 PM »
Back to the GSh-301 for a moment. It is a feat of engineering that the rapid-firing 30 mm GSh-301 weighs only 7 kg (15 lbs) more than this:


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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #51 on: April 23, 2008, 04:44:26 PM »
F-35 is going to use the GAU-12.  Four barreled, 25mm cannon.
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #52 on: April 23, 2008, 05:26:59 PM »
Yup. At first they considered the Mauser BK 27, but ultimately selected the indigenous GAU-12.
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #53 on: April 23, 2008, 05:42:36 PM »
Quote from: Lumpy on April 23, 2008, 01:40:12 PM
In the free world anyone is allowed to "interfere" as much as they like as long as they don't break the law. Giving money to friends is usually not illegal. Not even in Russia.

But doing something in Russia to displease Putin is definitely a No No....

Look at what happened to that woman reporter, and the KGB guy that defected to the UK??

While the drone was flying over Georgian airspace, it appears to be alongside one of the rivers separating the two countries.   So it may have been able to look over the border a little bit into Russian territory.

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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #54 on: April 23, 2008, 09:39:37 PM »
Quote from: Hornet33 on April 23, 2008, 02:02:53 PM
Because after the USSR fell apart, they flipped old mother Russia the bird and went out on their own, started talking to Uncle Sam and that pissed em off.
No.This isn't a high school.Nobody gives a damn about who's talking to who.
Its the US military bases in Ukraine and Georgia.
Uncle Sam didn't like Russians in Cuba,did he?
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Re: Video: Russian(?) Mig29 shooting down a Georgian drone in Georgia
« Reply #55 on: April 23, 2008, 09:51:14 PM »
Uncle Sam didn't like Soviets on Cuba ... big difference.
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