• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    29
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    His (combat jet) flying days are likely over. You can only handle one, maybe two ejections before it messes up your spine from the high G-forces.

    • @CookieOfFortune
      link
      774 months ago

      Not sure that’s Russian policy if they’re low on pilots.

      • @assembly
        link
        284 months ago

        Yeah that would be the policy for a normal country but considering Russia they will put him in aircraft until he stops breathing.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        224 months ago

        Good point. They probably don’t care if their pilots get permanently paralyzed from one too many ejections, considering their complete indifference to their front line soldiers becoming part of the Meat Cube™.

        • @Agent641
          link
          94 months ago

          Graduate from pilot to payload.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      34 months ago

      Here I assumed they probably had ejection-seat experience as standard training. But that makes sense I suppose.

  • @RedditRefugee69
    link
    164 months ago

    What in the Gen z alternate reality are we living in? lol. True “modern warfare”

  • BarqsHasBite
    link
    fedilink
    English
    164 months ago

    It is not exactly clear when and where the video was taken, nor who exactly “they” were. According to a BBC report earlier this year almost 350 Russian fighters, ground attack aircraft and tactical bombers have been shot down over the battlefield during the last two and a half years. These have been by both Ukrainian air defense assets and “friendly fire” incidents.

  • BombOmOm
    link
    English
    134 months ago

    Now that is an extreme selfie!