RUSSIAN MIG 29 Fighter Shot down UAV Above Georgia

[Segami]

Run time: 01:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U49n1JuWAmc   Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2008 By YouTube Member: fighter911cz Views on YouTube: 55126   Posted on DU: April 27, 2010 By DU Member: Segami Views on DU: 542

 
Black Sea Drone WARS. The Sequel

Pakistan isn’t the only place where drones are causing controversy. In the separatist republic of Abkhazia, local officials are accusing the Georgian government of intruding on their airspace with unmanned aircraft.

Vasily Malayev, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) border force in Abkhazia, was quoted by Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency as saying that Georgian drones had crossed into Abkhaz territory “more than 40 times” since last May. More than two dozen weapons caches had also been discovered in Abkhazia, Malayev added, though he did not give any specifics about how, exactly, the weapons got there.

So, is this something to worry about? For starters, Abkhazia’s claims to sovereign airspace are pretty tenuous: The region broke away from Georgia after a civil war in 1992-1993, but only Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Nauru recognize the state’s independence. And Russia effectively props up the secessionist territory: Russia’s FSB, for instance, helps control the boundary between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia.

Still, Abkhazia is a potential flashpoint, and Russian/Abkhaz claims about airspace violations by Georgian drones preceded the escalation of conflict before. A few months before the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, a Russian fighter aircraft shot down a Georgian drone over the Black Sea. The incident was captured by the drone’s high-resolution camera, and a UN investigation concluded that Russia was indeed to blame for the shoot-down.

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[Robb]

1. Politics aside

...that's a really remarkable piece of footage.

[Arctic Dave]

2. My thought too. Really neat in a morbid way. n/t

[YOY]

4. Nobody killed..."morbid" isn't quite the word. Fascinating violence on nonliving things...

n.t.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Destruction as entertainment is always morbid. Doesn't need death to qualify.

[YOY]

6. Perhaps your right...I was thinking 'macabre'.

n.t.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Agreed. n/t

PB