http://theaviationist.com/It's the first video on the front page right now. What with Syria shooting down an F4 from Turkey recently, this is pretty interesting news watching their rebel AAA vs their own Air Force. Pretty rare nowadays to have video of a high performance fighter bomber being shot down. It sounds like a fairly low rate of fire AAA system, any of you x USAF/NAVY experts care to comment?
It's fairly frightening for me to consider that AAA is accurate enough to have a single unit/system be able to drop a Fighter moving that fast and that low just like THAT, POW. Is radar AAA this effective or did the gunners just luck out? I wonder if it was the same thing with the F4 from Turkey? I would be interested to know if any of the Pantsir S-1 SA22 systems have fallen into rebel hands, because it reportedly is the system that was used on the F4, and is supposed to be really effective.
Also, I was amazed at how long that Mig27 or 23 burned and kept flying without exploding. I've read that the Russian aircraft are built fairly tough, but I would have expected a much larger and final "kaboom" with a fire burning like that, not have it fly off into the sunset for as long as it did.
