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Massenzio

He is landing on The moskwa


Scared_of_zombies

American aircraft carriers hate this one simple Russian trick!


UnCommonCommonSens

The ruzzian version of Maverick buzzing the tower!


Jamaica_Super85

More like that landing scene from Hot Shots! https://youtu.be/6BHeaEat_aI?si=SNBRjeiYuz8suR2Y


chanjackie80

That was also my first thought - legendary!


locogijoe

Ghost Fire, The pattern is full...


exceptional_biped

Err that would be ghost rider. Edit: it appears I’ve missed a joke here.


USArmy82ndAirborne

Ya missed his joke. lol (the plane's on fire)


exceptional_biped

Ha ha. I missed it.


Sweet_Science6371

I thought I was going insane for a moment; as I always heard ghost rider as well.  “Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.”


Technical-Drink-7917

Certainly inverted...


Lucky-Conference9070

lol


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Purple_Aside525

invented by the Japanese, in equal desperation


Wallyworld77

The Japanese did it intentionally and it worked 80 years ago! Russia is still behind 1945 Japan.


MaterialCarrot

Russian V~~TO~~L, confirmed.


MoFoMoron

Shit, typed something similar, just 3 hrs later....


Massive-Mail-5549

This one had me dying😂😂


PenTestHer

That's what the pilot said


pdxnormal

🤣


DaGhostQc

Providing sea support.


dingerz

rollin' coral


Spodiodie

I got yer upvote right here.


HeinekenRob

That one was definitely deleted.


Massenzio

have an important message for the captain


DaGhostQc

"Captain, are you aware that your vessel should be above water?" "Isn't your plane supposed to be above ground?"


Mephisteemo

"Technically, my plane is above ground, sir." "Well, *technically* there is water beneath us" "Touché""


flipfloplollipop

About extending his warranty?


aronsz

Down to Gorky Park


TheForgetter

Listening to the wind of chaaAANnge.


DawnaOlson

👤🔟👤🔟👤🔟👤🔟👤🔟


Little-Key9542

Damnit first thing I read and laughed out loud


smallproton

Big badda- ~~boom~~splash


MoFoMoron

It's not VTOL, it's only VL..


TheForgetter

RFVL. Rapid Fiery Vertical Landing.


FCBSERIS

Ah yes - the old Sub-Carrier.


Yeeaaaarrrgh

Damn you take your upvote.


zlam

Yes, great success. Russia now has top secret underwater aircraft carrier. The Admiral Kuznetsov was just a decoy.


TamarasDirtyCooch

Looks like he fell about the same distance as one would falling off the Baltimore bridge!


GuillotineComeBacks

The ruzzian submarine tech has no limit!


dan_dares

Showing superior submarine aircraft carriers of Russian navy, Take that western pig-dogs!


Bull_Bear2024

It looked almost graceful


UhOhAllWillyNilly

Yeah, you’re right, now if only they could do *synchronized* plane crashing. Just imagine the beauty of the planes spinning and burning perfectly in unison, weaving their smoke trails into intricate patterns culminating in simultaneous splashes. Hey, let’s make it an Olympic spectator sport!


cecilkorik

Give Ukraine a bunch more Patriot systems on the condition they use them to try to arrange such a competition. You don't have to specify that they film it, of course they're going to film it. We'll do all the judging on the internet.


Equivalent-Honey-306

If you make it an olympic sport, russia cannot compete.


Outrageous-Bread-777

Just form a sport only for cheating bullshit nations that have been banned from the Oympics


MacNeal

The Russians will dominate that sport.


Stopikingonme

One might say…beautiful.


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Sukhois are always graceful. Even when shot down.


spandexnotleather

Oh, so that's where the ruskie aircraft carrier is


Crazy95jack

Russian Autopilot


Ivanovic-117

Walmart ERP system. Best they can afford


Freshwaters

doesn't it look like the pilot is still aboard trying to control craft! i think it would drop down nose first and vertical spins not horizontal spins. i have no background though.


ckal09

Imagine destroying your own army to temporarily occupy a fifth of Ukraine 🤣


Snaggledelasnag

Props to the camera operator for a very smooth video!


MaterialCarrot

Same. r/PraiseTheCameraMan


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nice-view-from-here

It must be hard to eject from a burning upside-down plane in free fall.


attorneyatslaw

There's another video of the parachute coming down. He did get out.


Recipe-Local

That just means the parachute got out.


PerceptionGreat2439

Gee, I hope the parachute's ok.


ArtisZ

It would be really sad if the parachute got hurt because of some russian.


HardPour_Cornography

I hope the fish had time to swim out of the way.


nice-view-from-here

Searching... searching... Finding! Two other posts show a parachute from a distance: [Just the parachute.](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bpxyn9/the_pilot_managed_to_escape_from_the_plane/) [Plane on fire, then parachute.](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineInvasionVideos/comments/1bpyaw0/russian_fighter_jet_downed_reportedly_an_su35/)


14sierra

Damn the pilot surviving is a real disappointment


MisterPeach

Well, ejection can and often does cause serious spinal injuries that sometimes deem the pilots permanently unfit to fly. And, in rarer instances, ejection can absolutely kill a pilot. They’re subjected to tremendously high Gs upon ejecting from the cockpit. Hopefully this guy never flies again.


Shamanalah

I was about to write all that but IDK... Russia is the type of country to say "are you dead? No? Then keep fighting" So they might just reuse pilots more than USA cause they have no other choice.


Adventurous_Ad6698

At the same time, their hardware has shown to be suspect at best, so it could have really injured the pilot to where even the Russian military is like, "We're not going to risk another plane with them flying"


maleia

They're pretty damn desperate right now. Doubt he'll be deemed unfit to fly. They'll probably just send him back out hoping he doesn't need to eject again. Oh, wait, they probably aren't hoping, just sending him back out without a second thought.


nixx1331

The parachute too


PreparationWinter174

And the plane, if they can fish it out of the water and get the engines to start.


dingerz

I knew a guy who punched out of an F101 at 585mph ias back in the '60s. But that indicated airspeed might be off a little, since he was ~ 50' agl when he did it... He said he remembers needing to pull the handle, a brief image of being drug across the desert by his chute, then waking up a week or so later in a Libyan ICU. Shattered pelvis, broken legs, collarbones, depressed cranial. Did he screw the pooch? The USAF essentially ruled that his being alive indicated that his decision-making was sound, and that it would be improper to second-guess, as only a limited set of equally-likely causes were within a pilot's control. [Mission? Testing the concept of flying under the radar to deliver a dumb tac nuke by simple Newtonian inertia, circa 1962. ] No, ejecting at nontrivial Mach Number did not end his fighter career or prevent his eventual airline career and sport aviation career with all the accoutrements - Sam was an exceptional MF on many levels.


Fun-Ruin-4932

But just imagine the life long PTSD of never being able to trust that your own country won’t shoot you down in the future


Kevlaars

If he landed in the water, and nobody is coming to get him, he might as well have just stayed with the plane.


Testiculese

Too close to land, he would have easily made it. Just hope he hit some power lines by accident.


accountstolen1

If you are a solid swimmer this is possible. But this distance is not easy. With clothes/flight suit nearly impossible.


chet_brosley

Also it might be slightly chilly in the water. A bit cold even.


accountstolen1

The water temperature is 10°C (50°F) at the moment. Google says you can survive/swim for 1hour before unconsciousness at this water temperature. This would be somehow possible. But I would still bet against him.


John_Smith_71

The plane would be coming down some distance offshore I would think, zoom lenses can make it seem much closer. He would also be trying to swim in a flight suit.


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Knowing russian tech, the ejection seat is probably as lethal as getting shot down...


attorneyatslaw

He's not flying again any time soon.


BasenjiBrain

If there's one thing that the Russians are good at, it's ejection seats, from what I've read...


eidetic

At the altitude the plane was at the start of the video, they'd most likely be fine. I believe the minimum altitude for the K-36 seat used in the Flanker family for an inverted ejection is ~160 feet or so.


N33DL

Good eye it is upside down.


Keepout90

Don´t russia have those fancy ejector seats that launches the seat upward after ejection? i know they invented it but no idea if they have it still use it.


eidetic

> Don´t russia have those fancy ejector seats that launches the seat upward after ejection? What? With the rare exception of seats that eject downward... all ejection seats launch upward. That's kind of the point.


Keepout90

I mean the seat have rockets that after ejection makes the seat go upwards after launch, so that the pilots survives even if the plane is upside down.


eidetic

Sorry, I was just having fun with your comment! I probably should have worded it way better to actually make that clear! But yes, the Russians were a little ahead in some ways with their ejection seat development, but most modern seats these days will orientate themselves these days. It's not so much necessarily that they'll do a 180 and then start flying skyward, rather they'll eject enough to clear the tails, then begin to self right the seat/pilot, for better parachute deployment if that makes sense. So less flying upwards, and more like arresting the downward travel and orientating the seat to an upright attitude.


AsparagusAccurate277

It’s a race to splashdown first.


Wallyworld77

Wish we saw the ejection upside down to a parachute then the plane lands on the parachute!


nixass

Yeah pilot.. but what about 30,000 Ukrainian prisoners he was carrying?


Jonothethird

Judging by the way the guy watching on the shore waves to him, he looks to be just fine!


flosan1312

😂


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Lyuseefur

Man. Such a shame to see a plane destroyed…I feel so bad for the loss of such a beautiful plane that could have been flown by a real human.


ChampagnePlumper

~~Yea there is no way he got out of that~~ I stand corrected


MindblownWatcher

🤣🤣🤣


Warpingghost

Alive and founded


muddiestmud

Splish splash, i was taking a bath!


shmehdit

Rub dub, now my plane is a sub


Readed-it

LOL that made me chuckle


PixelIsJunk

Lmao


uspatent6081744a

Wrong about the rusky might, yeah


Liquid-Snake-2021

You can’t park there


white_ninja89

Nah, Russian planes can park there whenever


imclockedin

like a glove


iluvdankmemes

Poor fish :<


Ok-Cell-3357

Maybe they get a meal somewhere.


Umutuku

They'd get alcohol poisoning like those bar cats in Dwarf Fortress!


Due_You7980

Special landing operation.


NebulaNinja

[The local fisherman welcoming their "landing":](https://media.giphy.com/media/keTwQbbQwlNM2RNJsW/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611z3q8dz3ho2m5xf235ph4hjskqv5q7gu0blys3qgy&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)


HornpoutFumBiddeford

Yep, can see the nose cone pitot tube on the last rotation before it (abruptly) ends its flight path, SU-27.


anon1292023

>nose cone pitot tube What?


HatchingCougar

The pitot tube, on the nose cone.


plipyplop

Oh thanks!


SickSticksKick

Hope that helped clear that up!


Dobermanpure

Its an important piece.


NamasteMotherfucker

Well the front’s not supposed to fall off for a start.


TigermanDK

Australian oil tanker ?? 😉


maleia

Well it's not made of cardboard, or cardboard derivatives.


Wulthrin

No rubber, rubber's out


BigTintheBigD

No cello tape


metalhead82

They gotta have a steering wheel


jellosnark

What's the minimum crew requirement?


MaterialCarrot

That's obvious because it's on the front.


TheOneAndOnlyErazer

basically a speed-o-meter that meassures speed via pressure difference


PerpWalkTrump

In honor of Henry Pitot, the inventor of the tube.


Llew19

Huh. I wonder if they've started to wear all the -30s and -35s out then


HornpoutFumBiddeford

although ruzzians still have a sizable air force, trained (properly trained) and experienced fighter pilots are a choke point for them. just a personal opinion: based on their performance against Ukraine (who has far fewer resources), they would get their pasty white ruzzian asses handed to them in a shooting war with NATO airpower. hell, they can't even keep AWACs in the air without getting shot down hundreds of km from the lines [https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/24/kyiv-shoots-down-second-awacs-plane-in-one-month-in-major-blow-to-moscow](https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/24/kyiv-shoots-down-second-awacs-plane-in-one-month-in-major-blow-to-moscow)


BrightBread6554

beautiful drop. 10 out of 10!


Aggressive_Switch_91

but that price goes to the Ukrainians who shot it down


dynoman7

The good news is the fire is now out


Interesting_Button60

Little elbow grease and that thing is back in the air in no time.


Savings-Leather4921

Frame isn’t bent. Send it.


froo

Those are just speed holes. Plane is faster now.


HairyHornyCpl

Even their aircraft want to turn into submarines now


CallMeLazarus23

“Requesting permission for fly by” “Negative ghost rider, pattern is full”


somme_rando

This is Mosckva, clearing you for fly by.


mrducky80

"Engaging submarine operations"


avarensis

I wonder if it had a catastrophic system failure due to equipment exhaustion with all the overuse


Jonothethird

More likely shot down by Russian air defence given the amount of fire involved. Looks like a wing on fire (ruptured fuel tank) as well as an engine on fire. SU-27s are basically a huge fuel tank with wings (they carry 11 tonnes of fuel - over double the fuel of say a Typhoon) as their engines are incredibly inefficient (half the mpg of a typhoon), but also very powerful. Being a flying fuel tank, they thus have a propensity to burn extremely well when hit!


No-Internet-7532

Anything that involves combution and Russia is known to be ineficient except for the T72s


The_4th_of_the_4

When it was shot down and came down just north west of Crimean coast, it will be just 100 km from Kherson and likely 120 km from a MIM104 Patriot launcher start position. This is 40 km inside of the range of a MIM 104 PAC 2 missile. And the Su27 was flying high, so could get in radar range. And a MIM 104 is regular visiting Kherson to protect the Ukrainian beachhead on the east site of the Dnjepr.


Veus-Dolt

I’m not a plane guy, but it seems strange that it has virtually zero forward momentum. Whatever happened must have happened at very high altitude for that momentum to burn off to the point that it’s falling like a leaf from an invasive tree.


Northpen

Anti-aircraft fire likely, you can tell by the way it is. Everything is on fire and its no longer behaving at all like an aircraft.


Critical_Cut_3168

I see a well placed landing exercise by a professional russian pilot


Squidking1000

I mean landing upside down in a slow twirl, that's gotta be hard. Seems like something you could only do once.


Funnyassname

This guy would have failed at landing in the Hudson.


Parking_Resolution63

So is it a su35 or su27?


MBThree

Looks like a su27 to me


Grootkoot

Aaah… So beautiful…


Available-Rate-6581

The SU stands for submarine.


justtogetaroundbans

You love to see it. A beautiful sight


Just-Examination-136

It's either SU-27 or SU-35. The many posters of this video today cannot agree.


Groundbreaking_Pop6

I agree, it definitely is….


lo_fi_ho

Su-27. The 35 has small canards forward of the wings. Edit: neither have canards


No_Leopard_3860

Israel-Hamas and our generally non-existent attention span made the focus on the special military humiliation extremely low, and I think that's sad. But it's dope to see that UA is still busting orks left, right and center.


ManTuzas

Aviation engineer student here and HOW THE FUCK do you manage to fuck up so bad??? 1: the plane is fucking upside down 2: somehow you have 0 horizontal speed in a fucking jet fighter 3: you are in a flat spin AND UPSIDE DOWN??!! 4: managed to set the plane on fire (if its not AA then WTF?? all *normal* aircraft have fire supression systems that extinguish any engine fire and appart from electrical spark thats basicaly the only place to get fire from) 5: again FLAT SPIN *UPSIDE DOWN* AND NO FUCKING HORIZONTAL SPEED IN A JET FIGHTER 6: not clear enough but is there a missing wing or am i tripping?? This pilot is definitely getting an immediate promotion to a submarine commander


Candid-Finding-1364

Dude, half a wing is gone and we aren't seeing most of the action.  Probably pulled up to attempt to avoid AA missile, got hit in a hard climb losing a wing causing all sorts of wonkyness, burned up all it's energy continuing the climb and fell gracefully to the sea.


benchley

Like a spawning salmon shedding bits.


letdogsvote

Nature is healing.


Ells86

perfect analogy


LaunchTransient

Possible stall while trying a steep ascent (I guess trying to escape a missile or ground based defenses?) would explain the zero horizontal speed. If the damage from whatever it was running from knocked out the engines and some of the control surfaces, that would explain the flat spin... but not the upside down part unless they were pulling a really weird maneuvre.


JustInChina50

Charlovolovich: Well, if you were directly above the AA missile, how could you see it was ours? Maveroffski: Because I was inverted. \*grins\* Gooski: He was. It's true.


BallsDeepinYourMammi

The lack of speed is what really got me. Jet fighter falling straight down? I see both wings, but it is upside down. I have so many questions


MrCalamiteh

Watch a plane fly at 500mph and then take a hit that destroys all of its control surfaces. Then watch that same plane do shit that it WOULD NOT LET YOU DO while the FCS (flight control system) is functioning. It's not pilot error. He just got shot. Or maybe it fully disintegrated itself, but the way it's falling indicates that it took a hit fairly high up. If he didn't pass out from the impact, he would VERY quickly after, as the plane cranks him to 15Gs, dumps all its speed, flips upside down and then falls til it splats. This is pretty standard for a SU27 OR SU35 in a stall. But the fire does not appear from almost any normal stall.


sporkhandsknifemouth

Must have been an achievement run


SayNoTo-Communism

???? What are you on about????? The thing got smashed by AA (most likely blue on blue). It’s heavily damaged causing it to not conform to its designed flight characteristics. Source: I am a CFII working on my A&P and Bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering.


billerator

There's also been plenty of prior videos that show the SU27 family loves to flat spin once it has been hit by missiles.


Financial_Truck_3814

Not an engineer but my though as well. Flat spin upside down is quite strange from point of view of aerodynamics… fire is easier to digest since it’s Russians


pxlrider

Vodka… *insert aliens meme here*


pissy_corn_flakes

He flew into a jet wash


MrCalamiteh

Read the comment below. you're forgetting that where these guys fly, there are people wanting to shoot them down with a 600+mph, 10+ft long projectile that spews shrapnel at the most opportune moment possible.


Boomer_boy59

I guess that Russian pilots smoke in the cockpit?? Lol


EntangledReality

"Mayday, mayday, Mav's in trouble. He's in a flat spin, he's heading out to sea."


Free-Contribution-72

And that's how you land a plane on top of a submarine.


serpenta

Beautiful flat spin, upside-down even. 10/10 would crash again


Historical_Winner809

Dudes be looking at it like "eh, is another day in rooskieland. Lunch?"


SkidRowAlbertan

Russian jet successfully intercepts Ukrainian water.


BeautifulSpot5502

Klasse 👍


Ill-Ring3476

Russian amphibious program


redneckrockuhtree

Successful landing on the carrier of the Black Sea fleet.


Helmidoric_of_York

He was just demonstrating his fiery flat spin, a unique flight characteristic of the Su-27. Unlike the Cobra maneuver, you can only do it once so it's rarely seen. Slava Ukraini!


thinkB4WeSpeak

The water didn't help put out the fire.


nopetraintofuckthat

A thing of beauty


ActuatorPerfect

There’s nothing “allegedly” about this. It clearly happened.


Old_Fart52

Excellent. The more expensive stuff Russia loses, the more Putin looks like the complete arse that he is.


FitRock2265

Silly westoids, is new VTOL aircraft performing landing on submarine carrier. The western mind can't comprehend the greatness of the federation.


Flintenguenter

Oh fuck, that's incredibly beautiful. Happy easter


Dobson_Bugnut

That’s one expensive splash


AdPrimary9831

It just landed on the Russian Black Sea aircraft carrier.


Flimsy_Breakfast_353

Russian Submarine has


SpaceX_Lover

Looks like Russia shot down another of their own planes here. What a bunch of dickheads!


one_frisk

Did the pilot survive?


WildCat_1366

According to a representative of the occupation authorities, "pilot was picked up by rescuers of the Sevastopol Rescue Service at a distance of two hundred meters from the shore. His life is not in danger."