Do spill the beans...

ROFLMAO!!

And two Eritrean MiG-29's got two Ethiopian SU-27s in 1999 on two seperate occassions.

wow thanks for that. it made my day!

the MiG-29 is one of my fav fighter jets. it's awesome to watch in action.
and the footage is superb as well. it catches the missile right before it hits.
a very nice show.

Quite funny how most replies are just about how awesome the footage is.

It is also amusing that in this confrontation beween a mighty Russian jet fighter and a lowly fixed-undercarriage drone, it is definitely the drone that goes out winning: what a spectacular "GOTCHA" moment!

- Putin won't convince anybody (outside the already-tamed Russian media) that they didn't shoot down the drone. I think he has a major foreign crisis on his hands now.

The Russians have always had a certain knack for botching up their bullying of "the near abroad"... They did it once again.

Actually, I'd rather keep the thread based on the footage and leave the politics out of it.

It's not often we get to see the end result of a MiG 29 firing an A2A missle. Pretty cool stuff. Really primo would have been a few rounds of cannon fire, followed by the missle. If there was anything left to hit.

Exactly. It's a real eye opener when your only experience with the MiG-29 is flying a digital version of it in Lock On for all these years and then you finally get to see a real one firing a real missile in a real world situation!

I can't remember having seen a video of an A2A missile kill from the business end view. We've all seen the drone hits, the video from the launching aircraft, a puff of smoke in the distance is the kill. But nothing like this, here comes the missile into your face. Wow.

A kill with the R-73 missile. Using gunzo would not only be dangerous to the people at the coast ( if he is firing towards the cost ) but mostly it wouldnt be a sure kill. This gun disperse might be too big for a UAV.

Is there a UN Resolution to have peave keeping forces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia ? Im really curious and too lazy to check the UN Homepage.

What would be really cool was if there was a dogfight between UAVs from different countries. The ultimate "combat sim"