Russia Loses a Jet to NATO (pictures)

Kommersant ^ | Sep. 16, 2005 | Vladimir Vodo, Ivan Safronov

[Conspiracy Guy]

They broke that one.

[End Times Sentinel]

Can't make a jet, can't make a submarine (although they do make one hell of a fishing cable), can't even make a car.  Methinks our coldwar enemy was not all we thought at the time.

  Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[cripplecreek]

"After reporting his difficulties, Troyanov flew in circles to use up fuel and then parachuted from the craft."


Good man.

[NonValueAdded]

Holy F-15's Batman, where did that design come from? NATO intercept failure not a good thing. Germany still flying the F-4 Phantoms?

[FreedomCalls]

Can't make a jet ..

Do you say the same thing when our jets crash? Some of our jets have crashed you know. We've also lost submarines and the Corvair was a made-in-Detroit product.

[RKV]

All they had to make was some nukes and a way to deliver them. I believe based on their ability to put men in space that they had that capability. What has happened to the maintainance regime lately is another story.

[RadioAstronomer]

NATO intercept failure not a good thing. Germany still flying the F-4 Phantoms?

Hey wait a min! I flew in the back seat of a Phantom.

I loved that bird. :-)

[GarySpFc]

Oh, the Russians make really good fighters. The SU-27 is a top of the line fighter.

[Red Badger]

Did they ever figure out where the cable came from that stopped the sub? I was thinking it might have been a WWII anti-submarine net...........

[FreePaul]

Apparently he had a cell phone even if his regular communication system went out. It's hard to believe that not only he was lost but that his air force lost him. Surely they could have given him some instructions about which way to fly, other than down. Sounds as if more than his navigation system failed.

[epluribus_2]

The gerries still like it for fast intercept. They like EuroFighter, too but pilots I talked with say they would keep the F4 for the right missions.

[Echo Talon]

The SU-27 is a top of the line fighter.

Not really, 2nd shelf now... Don't forget about the F-22

[A.A. Cunningham]

The commies borrowed heavily from the Iranian F-14s. Thank you Jimmy Carter and yes, the Luftwaffe is still flying F-4s.

[Tribune7]

German F-4Phantom fighters had been launched from the airbase in Zokniai.

Who needs the Eurofighter!

[konaice]

The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the pilot crossed the border because of a malfunction in his navigation equipment, which was also the cause of the crash.

Scuze me, but you might stray off course due to navigation failure but you would not CRASH due to nav problems unless you ran into the side of the mountain (which the pictures clearly show is not the case).

Of course the Nav equipment could have caused the crash if it triggered the self-destruct mechanism because it determined the pilot was defecting. The Russians wouldn't do that would they....? Naw...

me:/reaches for tinfoil hat.

[Joe Brower]

The strangest thing to me is the picture of the camo'd soldier with the shotgun. That's a case of U.S. issue MREs sitting on the ground next to him.

Since when did the U.S. start supplying rations to the Lithuanian army?

[cripplecreek]

I have an uncle that took part in some sort of exchange program with Russia in the later years of the Reagan administration. He said that he got a chance to fly some of the technology stripped MIG fighters but even stripped they were awesome planes. He was most impressed with the Russian pilots.

[Al Gator]

Troyanov did ok.

In 1973, my unit sent an A-3 on a routine flight from Guam to the PI.

Three, count em, three: not one, not two, but three navigators on the A-3.


They bailed out of the plane about 1,000 miles off the coast of Japan. Fuel starvation.

They got lost.

No fooling, have the Granpa Petibone article to prove it.

[epluribus_2]

so sue us for the nav equipment you probably stole and did not replicate perfectly.