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[–] 100_percent_a_bot 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not to be a downer but how credible are these numbers? Aircraft is particularly prone to overclaiming, which is why for example Russia claims they have destroyed more jets than Ukraine had to begin with.

[–] BombOmOm 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have visual confirmation on two of the six. One with the tail floating in the water and another going down in a big fireball. That is a higher ratio of visual confirmation than you normally get with aircraft due to them being quite far away when shot, so make of that what you will.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot 2 points 7 months ago

That's pretty cool, guess we may be getting better data sooner or later. I'm assuming if they shot them down with patriot, there's logs for that which will be released at some point