... for tri.gen (instead of crud cross-posted from texas and oregon
by some newbie with a lack of netiquette):
Some very interesting drone footage from Georgia:
What it is like to get shot down !
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=80713&newsChannel=worldNews
There's more to this than what you see in the video. That Mig-29
lines up in the classic "below and behind the target" position for
the close-in gun-range attack - but instead fires a heat-seeker
missile at the drone.
Was it a screw-up? Missiles are a lot more expensive than 30mm shells
- and THAT close (under a 1000 yards), at a high closing velocity, the
attacker stands a good chance of running into the blast zone from the
missile - or chunks of the killed target.
Russian-made radars are real crap (like those in an F-16) - so the
driver may have been surprised in his visual-only attack, thinking
that the small drone was a full-size aircraft, much farther away.
Then again, the Georgians may have modified their drones to carry
missiles too - like we did. That way, it would be prudent to get
off a missile shot, quick - but from a mile or so farther away...
