Russian Fighter VS US Drone | Midair over Black Sea visualisation
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2023
- A Russian jet took down an unmanned US drone over the Black Sea.
This reconstruction illustrates just how risky and aggressive the maneuver was.
It shows how the 2 aircraft made contact sending the drone to crash in the ocean on 14 March 2023 at around 9:20am local time.
The Pentagon said the jets made 19 passes. They released footage of 2 of these passes taken from the drone’s underbelly camera. The Sukhoi fighters can be seen dumping jet fuel on the drone during these swooping attacks. In the final pass, a fighter made mid-air contact and damaged the drone’s propeller.
The drone was an MQ-9 Reaper. It has a larger wingspan than the fighter but flies much slower. The Su-27 Flanker fighter is 8 times heavier.
The drone was southwest of Crimea. In the final video image, the Yayla Mountains of Southern Crimea are visible. Matching the mountain profile with google Maps, the position of the drone was about 40 kilometers from the coast. Beyond is Sevastopol, Russia’s main naval base on the black sea.
I used the video to plot the track of the fighter relative to the drone. This was done positioning the jet in multiple frames and setting up roll and pitch at each location. The probable track of the jet had the right wingtip striking one of the 4 propellor blades.
This re-creation of the clash makes it clear how fast the jets were closing in on the much slower drone and how deliberate the maneuver was. The Russian pilots were putting their own safety at great risk.
It looks like the flaps of the drone were partially lowered. The drone operator may have done this to slow its airspeed and make the attacks by the fighters more difficult by increasing the closing speed of the fighter jet.
By fluke, the wingtip passed between both fins striking only the propeller even though the fins were taller. If either fin had been lost the drone would have become unflyable. But in the footage, it is still flying after being hit.
With the prop inoperable the drone glided down for about 20 minutes till it crashed in the Black Sea and sunk in one-kilometer-deep ocean.
This satellite image shows multiple Russian war ships sailing out to attempt to salvage the wreckage.
Russia released their own footage showing a jet innocently overtaking a drone. But this must be a different encounter because this drone is carrying a pod and a vertical device not visible in the footage of the clash.
The fighter’s wingtip must have sustained damage, but still it successfully made it back to base. The 2 Russian pilots were reportedly given state honors for their piloting skills in this intercept.
Ukraine Invasion.
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Superb analysis, Mike. The way you use publicly available info from Google Maps, and do frame by frame analysis, provide context and credibility. Well done!
Wow Mike, you don’t only animate static building structures, but also moving aircraft.
Mike’s new mic sounds better too.
Awesome analysis work, the drone was much closer to Crimea than other news/YT outlets showed.
To be fair they were reporting before the drone visuals were released. The OSINT community was on to locating the visuals fast and fortunately there were obvious location clues. Amazing how close it was to Crimea.
You're a man of many talents Mike! 👍
Great video, thank you! The animation is very well done.
Thanks !
Fantastic mini doc!!!
Wow. Your work is extraordinary.
Thanks for the video. Hoping for more content.
Thanks Diwas. I made this one quick to upload while the story was still fresh 🎙️and got to use my new mike for the first time
Amazing Skills!
Thanks!
Very clear analysis.
I'm surprised you didn't address the obvious differences pre/after Collison. Shadows are from different angle and yellow stripes are missing from the propeller after the damage.
After the strike the pilots turned away from Crimea to ditch as far away as they could. Explaining the shadows.
Whoah amazing animation!
Thanks dankie plankie 😀
The new microphone 🎙️ didn’t even need all the adjustments I normally did. It does it itself!
This is so great! Well done.
Thanks Lab. I’m getting better and faster with each video. And first use of my new microphone 🎤 👍🏻
great analysis!
Thanks Daniel 👍🏻
Love it! Great Work!
Thanks a lot!
It's so disheartning to see such high quality video with this low views .
I'll watch all of yours today itself to do my part. keep growing 😊
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the support. It takes time for CZcams to connect me with all the viewers who enjoy my content and is starting to happens. The days of me making a video and them dying on 3000 views as in 2022 I can see no are coming to an end 👍
Amazing animation 👌🏻
Good job.
Thanks!
I have a premonition of aircrash please help
It sounds so unlikely that ru pilots have been able to do such a precision striking manoeuvre deliberately, the risk to take fatal damage seems too high. Might have gotten themselves lucky
I do have a question: why did they keep dumping fuel on their attack approach? Was it to baffle US satellite surveillance?
Hi Maud 👋🏻
I haven’t read anything conclusive. I think the Russian pilots were trying everything. A bit of intimidation. They may thought it could be ingested by the gas turbine and stall/ catch fire. Also having some guy fun.
Peeing on our drone.🤣
Honestly, though, those Russian pilots are both extremely skilled and extremely lucky to be alive.
Oh, and to answer your original question: pushback against the U.S./NATO, plus **wholly authorized** fun and very deliberate showing off of skill.
If you aren't old enough to remember the cold war, this is situation normal.
@@grmpEqweer I was specifically interested in the purpose of the fuel dumps. Yes, I know all about Cold War provocations. czcams.com/video/DGXx56WqqJw/video.html
The most plausible scenario is the fuel damaging the propeller not the fighter wingtip
Mike, hope you’re safe during the police strike & EFF rioting in South Africa…
Take it in our stride. Used to it 😅
@@Mike-Bell It's good you feel secure, but don't be the slowly-boiled frog. From the outside, looking in intermittently, I've been alarmed to see the situation in SA trending in a nonlinear fashion towards a bad end for people who don't appear traditionally sub-Saharan African, and I don't mean just light-skinned people. There are hundreds of years of rightful cultural anger and resentment that aren't going to dissipate or resolve any time soon. You strike me as an asset to the human race and it would be sad to see you lost to regional turmoil that you could have avoided by migrating somewhere safer and more friendly. Think seriously about it.
@@Felice_Enellen I cant say I feel secure in SA, I am more pragmatic. I have lived in the US for 5years. I returned to SA because its in my blood. I understand how important family and roots are. Its a lovely country and most people are good but the ruling class are out of control thieves who couldn't care less about the poor. Thanks for your kind words and part of my reason for building this channel is it will allow me if it comes to that to join my 2 sons who are already in Europe 😊 - Im good but most would be stuck depending on what happens.
And for the moment I am far away from Nuke targets 😂
The video is as remarkable as the skill of that Russian pilot. Great job. 4th video now and I subbed as of the 2nd, lol. I am enjoying these.
Thanks for the sub!
Drone pilot needs to fly more erratically. Some up elevator occasionally, should stop the harassment.
TBH...that was flying a little too close to Crimea. Sure...international airspace, but...
Why did they not just shoot down the drone?
That could start a war. Instead they just mess with the drone and if it breaks they can just say oops. Not my bad 😅
@@Mike-Bell Make sense. Thanks.
BTW which part of SA?
@@DN-kz7xl I’m from Cape Town. Whereabouts are you?
@@Mike-Bell Currently CAM.
@@DN-kz7xl is that Cambridge Camarillo Cameroon or Cambodia?
Interesting. Russians made a dangerous move with their plane. Barbarians. Care to explain why the Reaper was flying near the Crimea coastline though?
Drone was in international airspace.
It was flying by Crimean coastline because Crimea belongs to Ukraine and Ukraine had no problem with it. Plus the drone was in international airspace.
What is the US doing so close to Russia? Does Russia also have drones flying around California or New York?
These encounters happen everyday all over the world but usually don’t result in an incident.
@@Mike-Bell well, maybe they shouldn't happen at all?
@@ivanadaev1000 Of course they shouldn't happen at all. But the world is chock-full of things that shouldn't happen at all, and some of them happen because people aren't on alert to make sure they don't. Flying a drone near an enemy nation is provocative, yes, but the enemy nation is still an enemy and it's unwise to let them go unobserved while they do things that shouldn't happen at all, e.g. invade their neighbor.
The world just isn't as simple as your single-sentence statement suggests.
@@Felice_Enellen funny, considering what led to the invasion and what country is pushing the envelope of the war machine so far as to bring the whole nation to the brink of extinction, just like countless times in the 20th century.
Crimea is not russia
It's so interesting that they didn't simply shoot it down. Clearly, they wanted it to be as intact as possible so they could study it. I don't like the idea of applauding an act of aggression, but the skills shown here by the pilots, admittedly being risky and possibly very close to catastrophe on the final pass, were pretty respectable, and I won't let the horrible decisions made by the dictator who effectively directs the military prevent me from recognizing that.
I think it was more political than that. With this they can claim they didn’t attack another nation, they just ‘accidentally’ crashed in to each other
@@gagemcmahon9485 I kinda doubt that. As much as their military seems undertrained and lacking in advanced strategy, they will definitely have known that a drone is equipped with multiple camera feeds that are transmitted live back to base. No one in their right mind would think the fuel dumping and the close calls could pass as innocent investigation.
I don't think Russia would care at all if we said they shot down our drone. Their standard operating practice is to say something defensive and vague like "We were protecting our interests" and assume the world would just accept such a blatant lie. This is an oft-repeated pattern.
I really think they were hoping for a non-destructive takedown so they could study it and learn from it.
@@Felice_Enellen I definitely think you’re right about them trying to recover it intact, but also think you’re not 100% on how political acts of war can be. Dumping fuel and trading paint are harassment techniques, but it is a far cry from open aggression such as firing live rockets at each other. One is aggressive maneuvering to posture, the other is an outright act of war.
A risky and aggressive maneuver is to fly a drone close to the borders of an unfriendly country, being in direct sight of a military base, provoking even more tension in the region 👍
So, why does Russia do this all the time?
Как говорится: "Кто к нам с чем зачем, тот от того и того!"
Проще говоря - валите от наших границ!
Даже ваш закадычный друг Иран не признает, что Крым принадлежит России. Крым и это воздушное пространство - Украина. Америка может полететь туда.
Not even your crony friend Iran recognises Crimea belongs to Russia. Crimea and that airspace is Ukraine. America can fly there.
Был в крыму хоть раз? В Севастополе? Симферополе? В Ласточкином гнезде (Очень советую, невероятно красиво!)? Что ты об этом знаешь? Только то, что говорят по телевизору и пишут в интернете? Пообщайся с местными.
И еще одно - как бы США отреагировали, если-бы наши разведчики летали над их морскими базами? А наш флот стоит в крыму с 1783 года. Что там про украину слышно в те годы? ))@@Mike-Bell
@@Sigrlinn1 You wrote much but you didn't answered the question and the point of all of this. But this is the only cause of this war, Ukraine is not Russia.
The fuel is dense and liquid and caused the propeller to be bent, no physical contact between the aircraft. Same as if you took a windmill toy and put it into a river, in air it spins, in water it bends.
rip to the drone....well done Russia
This is not even close to truth. Btw drone is at Moscow now
So black sea is US border isnt ? Nice playing victim 😂
International waters. That's why they are not closer.
The Russians flew into US airspace of the coast of Alaska 17 times just this year and 57 times last year, while the US in that time has never crossed into Russian airspace the US aircraft always stay 12 miles from Russian airspace. But we know you're too $tupid to understand international airspace is for everyone to use.
I havo no idea why the drone is fly near Russian military base
The drone was flying in international airspace, the Russians in 2022 crossed into US airspace 57 times of the coast of Alaska while the US has never crossed into Russian airspace all US aircraft always stay 12 miles from Russian airspace, while the Russians few times every month fly into US airspace than when the US scrambles aircraft the Russians quickly return to international airspace.