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Whoops: A Russian MiG-31 Shot down One of Its Buddies

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Whoops: A Russian MiG-31 Shot down One of Its Buddies In short, the MiG-31 mistakenly shot down its wingman. It has now emerged that the twin-engine fighter was brought down by another MiG-31 which fired an R-33 air-to-air missile mistakenly. A report appeared on Baza claims that “… the accident of the MiG-31 aircraft was the result of omissions in the activities of officials in the organization of the LUT (flight tactical exercises – Approx. Ed. precluding their mutual falling into the zone of… (www.yahoo.com) More...

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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
Is this another one... Or did they do it again???? Bad habit to get into!
wopri
It’s the same event, the text says this came up in June.
rb522140
ROLAND BALCH 1
Thank-you Mr. Prigge .
jdriskell
sounds like a cross-eyed carpenter was flying the survivor.

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