Foxbat down in Russia

[pmccarthy]

Saw on the news today a blue Foxbat made an emergency landing in Russian occupied territory. Seems it was doing air obs and should have stayed over Ukrainin territory. It threw a prop blade hence the landing. The pilot has been detained. This answered my wondering why the Ukrainians were not using Foxbats. Seems that are.

[Garfly]

 

A bit more about it here from 05.30 to about 06.30

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQuaC79JjxE&t=16s

[Student Pilot]

Why would you use an ultralight when a drone would be quieter surveillance and have zoom capability? 

 

[Garfly]

17 minutes ago, Student Pilot said:

Why would you use an ultralight when a drone would be quieter surveillance and have zoom capability? 

 

 

 

This bloke asks the same question ... and adds some speculation about the 'story' that doesn't add up.

 

 

Edited April 7, 2023 by Garfly

[old man emu]

"Hid the gun in the woods"

 

To me it looks like the plane landed in a ploughed field whose boundary was a thin line of wind break trees.

 

If you are going to tell porkies, put some meat in the pie.

[Garfly]

I doubt the porkies are coming from the pilot. Only a pro-propaganda outfit could make that stuff up.

[Student Pilot]

There seems to be a lot of porkies being told. Casualty figures being one, an entire block flattened with a market and flats leveled. They said two people died? There was a vid around how Russian tanks are being taken out by cheap drones. Show'd a hovering drone dropping a small package into an open hatch then a pfffff. Are Russians are going to be sitting with an open hatch in a hostile area?  The resultant explosion wouldn't have blown the foam off your coffee. 

[onetrack]

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Are Russians are going to be sitting with an open hatch in a hostile area?

Yes. It's quite common to operate in enemy areas with open hatches. We did it in Vietnam. You only closed the hatch when an armed enemy threat was actually sighted. Mind you, we didn't have a drone threat in the late 1960's/early 1970's.

But keep in mind the larger proportion of Russian troops are simply conscripts with minimal training and minimal combat experience. So they can operate in a pretty casual manner and set themselves up easily to be taken out.

 

Even a small explosion in the confined area of an armoured vehicle will result in major casualties, as the hull doesn't give. The secret behind armed conflict is not necessarily kill all the enemy combatants instantly - it's far more effective to kill a couple and cause a dozen other major casualties.

This causes increased stress amongst their comrades as they hear their wounded comrades screaming in agony, and it ties up many more enemy combatants, as they have to attend to and remove their badly injured comrades from the battle front.

Then the numbers of wounded ties up much more enemy resources looking after their recovery - all the while they tell others who will listen, that the war is going badly.

 

Edited April 7, 2023 by onetrack

[Bruce Tuncks]

Shame on me....  I always referred to the Foxbat as being "Russian" as I did the Antonov. But no longer!