A Russian Strela SAM passes within feet of Ukrainian drone, but fails to detonate

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1. Why does the trail start to look yellow ?

2. Like they say, super hard to hit a stationary target lol

3. An Ukrainian Strela [operator talked about this](https://youtu.be/W7n8grXU0cE?si=KPHUVDZoR28XjaXR&t=140)

   So the missiles are designed against hellis so they expect the target to get bigger and bigger. When that doesn’t happens it gets confused and it simply doesn’t detonate

   edit: added link

4. I’ve noticed from a few clips that these SA13 and the older SA8 seem to take a while to stabilise in flight making them not that great at engaging close range targets. 50 year old tech I guess, who knew drones would be a thing? Let alone live-streaming an incoming like this.

5. That drone has already paid for itself now

6. Pretty sure that was A Russian Sterile SAM

7. crazy footage seeing the rocket

8. Not a big enough target to detonate with that system.

9. Well at least the SAM didn’t actually do a U-turn and his the SAM launcher like I have seen.

10. Love using the Strela in War Thunder 😂

11. 0:01 Suddenly we have met SAM “Strela”

    0:10: Strela shot

    0:24: Strela has missed

    0:31: The next shot will be ours

    0:53: Directed by: Enter the title text

12. Incredible footage.

13. Yellow sand road

14. Thought they had proximity charges so they go of if they are close to the target.