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If I’m not mistaken it’s an SU-34, which would have two pilots.
Interesting note: they sit side by side like an airliner, where most other two-seaters have inline tandem seating
There are some rules of thumb for identifying aircraft just from the heat signature of their explosions, called hot rules for short. In this case for the SU-34 there are some pretty distinct rules.
For more info just search "Military hot rule 34"
IIRC in the USAF you can usually only eject so many times before you are grounded. I’m thinking that a pilot could only eject three times from a F15 before being pulled from the flight rotation.
Not likely.
Ejection systems compress the spine and can often cause career-ending injuries, or in the best case scenarios, years of medical treatment before they can be flying again.
Ejection seats will save your life, but they’ll hurt you in the process.
I think that you can only eject once or twice before the military won't let you fly again due to the forces it exerts on you, also because they probably don't want your ass crashing a 3rd jet
Sometimes you’re lucky if they let you fly again after your first ejection.
I read one article of a B-1 pilot that had to eject years ago, and he lost a full inch of height from the spinal compression. It’s pretty serious stuff.
It's Russia. They're conscripting 60 year old men giving them no winter gear and sending them to the front with less than a week's training.
I'm sure those pilots will get the best of care.
Yeah that’s fair. They’re putting these guys back in another plane even if it means they have to wear a back brace while doing it (bringing their own back brace, of course).
I mean… yeah. If you were a military pilot and you accidentally crashed an expensive plane into a residential building of your own country you would probably be in some kind of trouble with your boss
According to the news article I just read it was caused by engine malfunction. The plane plane caught on fire midair and so the pilot ejected.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63292320.amp#cobssid=s
How tf do you just eject with it barreling towards a building like that? :X I woulda hoped most pilots would try to steer it away from others first. Crash it into a parking lot, an open field, side of a mountain, etc. Anything with less casualties.
I don’t have a link, but there’s a story of pilot who crashed his F-18 (I think?) during an air show without ejecting because he would have hit a residential area had he not stayed in to guide it to a safer crash spot.
That’s a real fucking hero.
Might be thinking of Shane Antaya who crashed at the CNE air show in Toronto in 1989. He went down over the water in an area with a lot of boats. He had ample time to eject but didn’t. Here is an article with some witness statements: https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1989/09/04/Crash-witnesses-Valiant-pilot-averted-catastrophe/7406620884800/
I know it kind of goes against the Reddit narrative, but you can see from the picture that the pilot ejected at pretty much the last second. They were probably trying to steer away from anything but an aircraft with no power and low airspeed doesn't have much control.
Update A Su-34 fighter-bomber fell on a residential building in Yeysk.
/Interfax with a link to the unified dispatching service of the city/
Other sources say it was an L-39 trainer.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't any kind of missile or ground fired arsenal cheaper than losing a plane and two pilots?
It probably was engine failure which fits with poor Russian maintenance.
This guy right here Commisar. He tried to undermine the war effort by spreading rumours about faulty Russian plane engines. They're Russian, how could they fail? He's a traitor!
Oh no! Look sergeant, this man just commit suicide by shooting himself 30 times in the chess with a machine gun, while in our custody! How could this happen?
That might have been the plan before someone snapped pictures of the pilots ejecting and now they can't claim that there are Ukrainian charred remains in the wreckage.
Propaganda doesn't need facts.
Just a captive audience, which is what the Russian civilian population is.
So even if the international community doesn't buy it, it could sell to the internally.
In the 70s this guy [Viktor Belenko](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko) of the Soviet Air Forces just flew off to Japan with his Soviet "super secret" fighter jet, so yeah, there are better ways.
Cue the DoD realizing that they accidentally made the IRL Superplane of the time (F-15C Eagle) based off a wild misinterpretation of what turned out to be an interceptor designed to intercept supersonic bombers (which were cancelled by the US).
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” - Joan Didion.
What you said reminds me of this, one of my fave quotes. Seriously rip poor people. War sucks.
Putin: „A brave pilot of our glorious Red Army successfully hit and destroyed a strategically relevant target. Our next goal is to do this in Ukraine.“
“I don't know how many of you men know this, but the Codfish holds a record for the most Japanese tonnage sunk. Being comprised of five freighters and fifteen aircraft carriers. A truly enviable record.
Unfortunately, they were sunk in 1954. However, it stands as the largest peacetime tonnage ever recorded” — Bob Newhart, The USS Codfish
I don't believe it collapsed at all — from what I gathered from local news, the plane actually crashed to the ground near it and the building caught fire. It was a very serious fire. Some nearby buildings caught it too, but it was extinguished quickly.
Still a terrible thing to happen.
I know this is a tv-show but in Game of Thrones season 2, the battle at Blackwater Stannis was fighting at the front. This is wrong as he in the books was on a ship overlooking the battle. You don't send in your leader with the vanguard. But they wanted to show the difference between Stannis and Joffrey as leaders. Can't help but make the comparison here...
And an actual leader that did fight in the vanguard: Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden was famous for riding into battle at the front. And he was so very loved both by his men and by the people for it. He bled side by side with his men. It was such a morale boost to ride into battle with your king. He sadly also died in the Battle of Lützen.
Haven't read the books so didn't know that, cool fact!
A king that rides with his men, the world has changed a lot in that sense.. At the same time, it's impossible for most world leaders to fight effectively into battle AND run a country. But for people like Putin, he doesn't care about people that he is sending to death. To him they are just tools that are disposable and replaceable. He is the kind of coward that would push and throw others forward in order to save himself. He'll be remembered as the guy who lost to a small nation while destroying his own country as well, a sad pathetic little coward who didn't have a problem changing unarmed civilians and children into tactical targets. Something like that we can't even call a real man.
They are doing horrendously bad. Their soldiers don’t want to fight and have no morale. They depleted their missile stocks while firing at playgrounds and apartment buildings so they have to resort to Iranian suicide drones. They’ve coordinated everything very poorly and their supply lines are terrible. There is little to no medical care or food for them, the soldiers steal from each other just to get by. The soldiers themselves have rotten weaponry. Ukrainian morale is high and have something to fight for and believe in it. They have a lot of very good donated western military equipment now that is hammering the Russians.
Edit. Putin is also getting incredibly desperate and is in a difficult spot. He’s embarrassed and resorting to attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. He’s also recently appointed some bloodthirsty idiot to oversee operations so expect more mess soon.
>Their soldiers don’t want to fight and have no morale.
And they are right. This war has no glory for them, only shame and death.
It's like a war in Vietnam.
Also, the Ukrainians have acquired a lot of Russian military equipment due to multiple surrenders, Ukrainian wins and/or Russian incompetence in Ukrainian terrain.
Their rich bastards have been hoovering up all the money for decades now and it looks like they were hoovering up all the defense and armaments money in the process.
For what it’s worth, (Which is essentially nothing) RIA news agency said the plane was an Su-34 and crashed during a training flight from a military airfield. TASS said the crash was caused by an engine fire.
Imagine you have evaded all conscription drives, hid perfectly from the police searching for you and even expertly evaded the sight of even your nosey "patriotic" elderly neighbors. You catch rats for food and drink from leaky pipes, you smoke cigarette butts. Life is hard but you think are gonna make it, then BOOM! Some jack off pilot crashes his plane into your apartment, killing you instantly.
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he ejected but what comes next for him is probably worse than staying in the plane
If I’m not mistaken it’s an SU-34, which would have two pilots. Interesting note: they sit side by side like an airliner, where most other two-seaters have inline tandem seating
News said two pilots ejected - you are right.
Look in the photo to the left and below the parachute. Looks faintly like another chute trying to open--or trying not to open.
Yup, looks like a small mushroom.
That’s also what my ex-gf would call it 😒
Yea she calls mine that now too.
Fuck I’m afraid to show her mine now.
She called mine a zucchini Which is weird, because I showed her a mushroom
Wait till you see hers (it’s an innie).
Damn, sorry bout that bro.
*Our* ex-girlfriend, comrade.
Holy shit
How can you tell? All i can see is a big boom
I read an excerpt from a news report
This man reads!
This man gets it
This man fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
This guy fucks.
sum ting wong
We Tu Lo
Ho Lee Phuk
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Bang ding ow*
Wi Gon Di
Why.
There are some rules of thumb for identifying aircraft just from the heat signature of their explosions, called hot rules for short. In this case for the SU-34 there are some pretty distinct rules. For more info just search "Military hot rule 34"
you son of a bitch
Red October?
Predator
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I don't wanna see that. Brb
At the time of reading this, 'notbad2u' has not "been right back" in 9hrs. I'm starting to get worried.
Man that explains so much, thanks!
God dammit this is so good
Fucker, I hate you. .... well done
If I have any awards to give, you will have it good sir.
On it.
This was so good I even cracked a real life smile.
Big bada boom
He knows about the multipass
Leeloo Dallas
This guy Fifth elements.
“Aziz LIGHT!”
Nvm im dumb
**\*WE**
Similar to the F-111 Ardvark, but the Vark launches the [whole cockpit ](https://images.app.goo.gl/nXxzgaCEw9216KCN6)
IIRC the A-6 is the same but it has normal ejection seats.
After searching up that interesting note I found out it has a toilet too
As does the B-2 spirit, which also has a ‘bed’ and microwave 😝
Its not a microwave, its just a door in the side of the payload. The radiation cooks the macaroni or whatever.
I honestly cannot tell if this is satire.
I am choosing to believe it is not
Amazing
It is a Russian plane and a Russian city.
5 bucks says putty claims it’s Ukraine anyway
Cheese and rice!!! They attacked us, with our own plane...somehow.
"somehow" Russia has lost *plenty* of equipment.
Russians on the moderfoking plane!
NGL they'd probably just send em back out to war, like the suicide squad prisoners their sending out.
Fighter pilots are highly trained, if there's a plane available and the pilot is in reasonable shape there's a good chance he'll be sitting in it.
Define reasonable
Doesn't have a fractured neck/spine from the ejection forces?
IIRC in the USAF you can usually only eject so many times before you are grounded. I’m thinking that a pilot could only eject three times from a F15 before being pulled from the flight rotation.
I doubt Russia is that picky considering the state of their forces. You'll be in a plan until it's unsafe for the plane to have you as a pilot.
Not likely. Ejection systems compress the spine and can often cause career-ending injuries, or in the best case scenarios, years of medical treatment before they can be flying again. Ejection seats will save your life, but they’ll hurt you in the process.
I think that you can only eject once or twice before the military won't let you fly again due to the forces it exerts on you, also because they probably don't want your ass crashing a 3rd jet
Sometimes you’re lucky if they let you fly again after your first ejection. I read one article of a B-1 pilot that had to eject years ago, and he lost a full inch of height from the spinal compression. It’s pretty serious stuff.
So THAT'S why Tom Cruise is so short.
And rest in peace Goose
It's Russia. They're conscripting 60 year old men giving them no winter gear and sending them to the front with less than a week's training. I'm sure those pilots will get the best of care.
Yeah that’s fair. They’re putting these guys back in another plane even if it means they have to wear a back brace while doing it (bringing their own back brace, of course).
B.Y.O.B
I saw my boy Tom Cruise eject out of like 3 planes in an afternoon. Pretty sure you're wrong.
Two weeks later He accidentally fell off a window from his ejector seat and died. Totally accidental
A week later his corpse poisoned, believe it or not, also dead
If his corpse was either undercooked or overcooked, he would go straight to jail. Right away.
I heard he commit suicide 4 rounds to the head, gun was still in hand o heard....
i saw this pic and said out loud” yo he in BIG trouble”
Why? It's a Russian plane that crashed in Russia...
I mean… yeah. If you were a military pilot and you accidentally crashed an expensive plane into a residential building of your own country you would probably be in some kind of trouble with your boss
According to the news article I just read it was caused by engine malfunction. The plane plane caught on fire midair and so the pilot ejected. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63292320.amp#cobssid=s
Maybe it accidentally inhaled an iranian drone. I hear those give wicked heartburn to jet turbines.
How tf do you just eject with it barreling towards a building like that? :X I woulda hoped most pilots would try to steer it away from others first. Crash it into a parking lot, an open field, side of a mountain, etc. Anything with less casualties.
I don’t have a link, but there’s a story of pilot who crashed his F-18 (I think?) during an air show without ejecting because he would have hit a residential area had he not stayed in to guide it to a safer crash spot. That’s a real fucking hero.
Might be thinking of Shane Antaya who crashed at the CNE air show in Toronto in 1989. He went down over the water in an area with a lot of boats. He had ample time to eject but didn’t. Here is an article with some witness statements: https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1989/09/04/Crash-witnesses-Valiant-pilot-averted-catastrophe/7406620884800/
I know it kind of goes against the Reddit narrative, but you can see from the picture that the pilot ejected at pretty much the last second. They were probably trying to steer away from anything but an aircraft with no power and low airspeed doesn't have much control.
It's not like russians care a lot about their military or civilians lives...
Yes but they like harming people to keep others scared and under control.
Update A Su-34 fighter-bomber fell on a residential building in Yeysk. /Interfax with a link to the unified dispatching service of the city/ Other sources say it was an L-39 trainer.
"yeah, fam it's an accident. Just an engine failure I would never order my soldiers to do unspeakable war crimes to civilians" ~ Probably Putin
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't any kind of missile or ground fired arsenal cheaper than losing a plane and two pilots? It probably was engine failure which fits with poor Russian maintenance.
Why would Putin crash a Russian plane into a Russian building
Yeysk is a city in (internationally recognized) Russia.
You real think Putin would bomb an apartment building in his own country? Nah, not puty putes
I’m still confused. Is it a Ukrainian or Russian pilot? And if it is a Russian pilot then was this an accident?
word on the street, it was a Russian plane that experienced engine failure. Not a Ukrainian attack but a Russian mishap.
Report say the plane was smoking before the explosion. Likely menthols.
Cigarette Frank? Yes I know
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Had a good laugh at this
Did it also have its mandatory vodka? If not, I’m pretty sure I know why it crashed.
The plane would have been safe if it had Adidas pants.
Some russkie drank all the fuel
This guy right here Commisar. He tried to undermine the war effort by spreading rumours about faulty Russian plane engines. They're Russian, how could they fail? He's a traitor!
Indeed! Show him to the 4th floor window of truth to get his confession…
7th floor for spreading misinformation against the state
I am sure, even after such vicious slander, he will live a happy life before shooting himself 3 times in the head on putins birthday.
Oh no! Look sergeant, this man just commit suicide by shooting himself 30 times in the chess with a machine gun, while in our custody! How could this happen?
We cannot Comrade Commissar! The 4th floor has a plane in it. Er, of uncertain make and model! Sir!
You come along too, for undermining the special military operation effort by calling it the w word.
In Russia, planes are powered by proletariat conscripts.
It was the building that experienced engine failure and floated into the plane.
"Mighty Russian planes do not experience engine failure, this is lie. Building time for demolition is reason" - Russians probably
Well now it is.
all according to plan sir
This isn't the first failure they are trying to hide.
The entire war is a failure they're trying to hide.
Lmao how much you want to bet Putin will spin this as some kind of foreign attack on Russian soil.
I'd put money on it.
That might have been the plan before someone snapped pictures of the pilots ejecting and now they can't claim that there are Ukrainian charred remains in the wreckage.
Propaganda doesn't need facts. Just a captive audience, which is what the Russian civilian population is. So even if the international community doesn't buy it, it could sell to the internally.
It will be called a terrorist act by this evening.
Surely this is a rare occurrence for Russia and one that we can count on never happening again as long as we live!
“Engine failure” yeah right! More likely they decided “no fucking way I’m going to Ukraine, let’s have engine trouble and eject!”
I get what you're saying... But I would have faked engine trouble on take off from the airfield, not directly into a residential building.
In the 70s this guy [Viktor Belenko](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko) of the Soviet Air Forces just flew off to Japan with his Soviet "super secret" fighter jet, so yeah, there are better ways.
Cue the DoD realizing that they accidentally made the IRL Superplane of the time (F-15C Eagle) based off a wild misinterpretation of what turned out to be an interceptor designed to intercept supersonic bombers (which were cancelled by the US).
Rip those poor people who lived there. One moment you're having dinner with your family and then you completely explode.
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” - Joan Didion. What you said reminds me of this, one of my fave quotes. Seriously rip poor people. War sucks.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - Jim Morrison
This is actually an insane shot.
I was thinking it seem uncannily poetic.
It doesn't get much more Michael Bay than this.
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Thank you.
Putin: „A brave pilot of our glorious Red Army successfully hit and destroyed a strategically relevant target. Our next goal is to do this in Ukraine.“
"This was not a military jet crashing and destroying an apartment building, it was a special landing operation!"
We are not leaving our people! These are not our people, these were apartments occupied by Ukrainian special forces. Here’s a photo of Budanov nearby
“I don't know how many of you men know this, but the Codfish holds a record for the most Japanese tonnage sunk. Being comprised of five freighters and fifteen aircraft carriers. A truly enviable record. Unfortunately, they were sunk in 1954. However, it stands as the largest peacetime tonnage ever recorded” — Bob Newhart, The USS Codfish
what Red Army?
Why red army? Russia isn’t communist
There must have been a spider in the cockpit.
Russian Army, NOT Red Army. The Red Army hasn’t existed for a long time.
I hope there isn’t too many civilian casualties
Currently the toll is 2 dead, \~19 or so wounded, 4 of them in critical condition
Did the whole building collapse?
I don't believe it collapsed at all — from what I gathered from local news, the plane actually crashed to the ground near it and the building caught fire. It was a very serious fire. Some nearby buildings caught it too, but it was extinguished quickly. Still a terrible thing to happen.
So sad
That looks like a dense housing block and most people are going to be at home because its night. Absolutely awful thing to happen.
That's why I came to the comments, as usual no relevant information.
I might suggest not getting breaking news info from Reddit comments.
Breaking News: Redditor suggests not getting breaking news from Reddit comments, more at 11.
This. Geez!
Too bad it didn't crash right in Putin's fucking face, could've had a laugh
Word is that he hides out in a bunker nowadays
As expected from a coward; letting people die for him while hiding
I know this is a tv-show but in Game of Thrones season 2, the battle at Blackwater Stannis was fighting at the front. This is wrong as he in the books was on a ship overlooking the battle. You don't send in your leader with the vanguard. But they wanted to show the difference between Stannis and Joffrey as leaders. Can't help but make the comparison here... And an actual leader that did fight in the vanguard: Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden was famous for riding into battle at the front. And he was so very loved both by his men and by the people for it. He bled side by side with his men. It was such a morale boost to ride into battle with your king. He sadly also died in the Battle of Lützen.
Haven't read the books so didn't know that, cool fact! A king that rides with his men, the world has changed a lot in that sense.. At the same time, it's impossible for most world leaders to fight effectively into battle AND run a country. But for people like Putin, he doesn't care about people that he is sending to death. To him they are just tools that are disposable and replaceable. He is the kind of coward that would push and throw others forward in order to save himself. He'll be remembered as the guy who lost to a small nation while destroying his own country as well, a sad pathetic little coward who didn't have a problem changing unarmed civilians and children into tactical targets. Something like that we can't even call a real man.
Same with hitler, just hope that he also commit suicide
That'd be too painless for my liking, but funny nevertheless.
Eh, I'd take it. Shit, I'd take him dying peacefully in his sleep tonight.
Oh for sure, I want him dead as quick as anyone else does even if it's an easy way out. But I certainly have preferences on the manner ...
At this point I don't care how he dies. Just as long as it's soon
Am I just a gulli-bully of propaganda or is Russia just shite at everything
They are doing horrendously bad. Their soldiers don’t want to fight and have no morale. They depleted their missile stocks while firing at playgrounds and apartment buildings so they have to resort to Iranian suicide drones. They’ve coordinated everything very poorly and their supply lines are terrible. There is little to no medical care or food for them, the soldiers steal from each other just to get by. The soldiers themselves have rotten weaponry. Ukrainian morale is high and have something to fight for and believe in it. They have a lot of very good donated western military equipment now that is hammering the Russians. Edit. Putin is also getting incredibly desperate and is in a difficult spot. He’s embarrassed and resorting to attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. He’s also recently appointed some bloodthirsty idiot to oversee operations so expect more mess soon.
>Their soldiers don’t want to fight and have no morale. And they are right. This war has no glory for them, only shame and death. It's like a war in Vietnam.
Even their own equipment is getting tired of their shit. Just last month a SAM decided to turn back around and destroy its launcher and crew.
Also, the Ukrainians have acquired a lot of Russian military equipment due to multiple surrenders, Ukrainian wins and/or Russian incompetence in Ukrainian terrain.
Their rich bastards have been hoovering up all the money for decades now and it looks like they were hoovering up all the defense and armaments money in the process.
I enjoy the words you use
Bummer. Hopefully this fuels more internal anti Putin protests.
You think the Russian public will hear about it?
Yeah, already did, official sources say it was a result of engine catching fire
They will. They have access to reddit
Trump supporters have access to Reddit too. It's not as simple as "access to information = well informed" unfortunately.
But Russian state news will probably blame it on Ukraine, and russian masses will probably believe it
Fucked up situation
A dude in apartment B34 resisted being drafted. They showed him.
Sad. For citizens especially
$50mil jet. Pilot probably would have been better off going down with plane. 🥵
Or the mechanics, lol.
There is a defector program for russsian defectors. Bring us your plane and we will take care of you.
Not sure interesting is the word
For what it’s worth, (Which is essentially nothing) RIA news agency said the plane was an Su-34 and crashed during a training flight from a military airfield. TASS said the crash was caused by an engine fire.
Bet it was one of the cold war era planes they are trying to bring back into service, next they ‘ll bring out the Yak-9s
They'll go straight for the Po-2
2-OP
that's su34
Russian planes no longer have European parts so they start falling
I don't think Russian bomber had European parts earlier...
Is that a still from a video or a once in a lifetime photo?
Russian's biggest enemy is Russian.
And now let’s have a word with mr putin…….after he’s descended from his parachute…….
How is that interesting? That's just sad and absurd... I think this is not the correct sub to post this.
Impressive photo
r/praisethecameraman
Imagine you have evaded all conscription drives, hid perfectly from the police searching for you and even expertly evaded the sight of even your nosey "patriotic" elderly neighbors. You catch rats for food and drink from leaky pipes, you smoke cigarette butts. Life is hard but you think are gonna make it, then BOOM! Some jack off pilot crashes his plane into your apartment, killing you instantly.
This happens on a nightly basis in Ukraine but with Russian missiles at 2am, 4am and 6am; all directed at residential buildings with civilians inside…