One of only three Russian loyal wingman stealth drones shot down over Ukraine
A Russian loyal wingman stealth drone has been shot down during a combat mission over Ukraine in an apparent friendly fire incident.
It is believed Russia only has two Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B’s left following the incident which is being viewed as a blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Any surviving equipment left on the ground will likely be a gift for reverse engineering teams keen to unlock any secret technology.
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32 comments
Is it friendly fire if they intended to shoot it down? One of the scenarios for why it was shot down was because it was flying on it's own due to loss of control.
Looks like a copy of a WW2 German design.
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‘In the UK’ we have some pretty pictures
They have 4 of them!
We're calling that 6th generation? What's it made of? Plywood?
That Battlefield 2042 version of this is stealthier…
Heavy drones are under suspicion of not being efficient. The platform might be good only against weak enemies. Bayraktars are nowhere to be seen, Reapers fall daily.
So Ukraine is just military test site ?
Whoopsie doodles.
Rumour on impartial web sites are saying it had problems and was scuttled to avoid the tech getting into enemy hands . At least it didn't hit a wind turbine , now that would be embarrassing 😉
Hilarious
Not they just call it 'wingman'
Packed full of Western components: Russia won't be able to build a new one for another decade at least!
Special blue on blue operation.😂😂😂😂
Fake news
Look! What's that up in the sky? It's not a sputnik. It's a flopnik. A nogoodnik. A crashnburnik. A kaputnik!
"Dave…I can feel my mind going…Dave…[sings Soviet Anthem]…"
I’m more concerned that Russia still has 2 flying and the west has a paper concept.
Russia can't produce stealth technology so…….
A Military stellte drone build from parts of the leftover corner with no ai in it! It is a classical Russian scam product! 😂
"Crude and uncrude teaming", ha perfect for Australia!!
The russian "cutting edge" sized up model plane with easily detectable conventional RC control. It is a potemkin drone. Shocker.
we don't know… friendly fire or deliberate fire loss of control of the drone…stop speculating…we don't know…post documentation.
Paper dragon ruᛋᛋia producing paper airplanes…
Even Russian drones are trying defect. Poor thing. 😂
I dont buy it …
Smells like a TROJAN HORSE to me. They KNOW they can't afford to lose this. So why would they have risked it ?
Taranis?
The Russians so stressed over explosive drone attacks when they saw this they were like “NOT TODAY” and shot it down
Bold of you to assume they had that many
Those massive exposed rivets on CCA tell me all I need to know about yet another 'stealth' aircraft from Russia.
Shot down stealth 😂