Dec 2024: Azerbaijani airliner crashes (shot down?) in Kazakhstan (split from UKR thread)

[The Bread Guy]

Well, well, well - may not have been the first time something's shot out of the sky mistaken for a drone by a Russian AA operator ....

Russian officer given nearly three years in prison for downing Russian helicopter he mistook for Ukrainian drone — Meduza

A Russian soldier has been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison after mistakenly shooting down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with an anti-aircraft missile system, believing it to be a Ukrainian drone, Kommersant reports.

meduza.io

 

[GR66]

Well, well, well - may not have been the first time something's shot out of the sky mistaken for a drone by a Russian AA operator ....

Russian officer given nearly three years in prison for downing Russian helicopter he mistook for Ukrainian drone — Meduza

A Russian soldier has been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison after mistakenly shooting down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with an anti-aircraft missile system, believing it to be a Ukrainian drone, Kommersant reports.

meduza.io

Not a smart move by the Russians. Three years in prison is likely much safer than staying on the front against Ukraine. If I were a Russian AD officer I'd be tempted to take down the next RuAF aircraft I see in order to get the same sweetheart deal!

 

[The Bread Guy]

Not a smart move by the Russians. Three years in prison is likely much safer than staying on the front against Ukraine ...

I suspect the widow Navalny might beg to differ