Flares...Flares...Chaff...Chaff.... ah never mind. LOL.

Cool vid.

Jason

lol, nevermind is right. Not much time between launch and impact. Those freaking missiles go pretty quick.

Of course neither the Russian pilot nor anybody else ever expected that the atttack would be filmed from the drone itself. But I guess it would still have been much more prudent, if he wanted to cover his tracks, to shoot the missile from a much wider distance, so the plane wouldn't be so easy to connect to the kill. Anyway, easy to say after the shoot-down.

To me this footage screams to me, "hey, it actually LOOKS like it does in Lock-ON, the sim isn't that far off!!"

Lock On was the very first thing that came into my mind. Notice how some of the exhaust smoke from the missile was sucked into the intakes of the MiG? I dont think Lock On models that.

so when the mig pilot gets home does he stencil the outline of a drone on his plane? also, maybe its just me being a neive american, but i didn't know countries like Georgia had UAVs.

I believe from what I've read it was a UAV from Israel but I'm not sure.....

UAVs are probably a lot cheaper to purchase than a manned aircraft. Seems reasonable to me!

There's actually a website dedicated to homebuilt UAVs somewhere...

I'd love to see a cost analysis for that interception.

I doubt R-73 Archer missiles are very expensive (when listed in Euros or Dollars). That UAV probably cost more than the missile that shot it down. Or maybe it was an older R-60 Aphid? That would be even cheaper.

http://www.elbitsystems.com/lobmainpage.asp?id=161 < official site for Hermes 450
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/aircraft/uav/hermes_450/Hermes_450.html < many good pics of it.

Wasn't it the other way around?