>Russia's Tu-22M3 Backfire bombers and Su-34 Fullback combat jets are grounded following a spate of accidents in recent days. This comes after Russian Minister of Defense Sergei touted plans for an uptick in major drills and exercises this year, in part to improve overall readiness.
>The most recent accident occurred on Jan. 22, 2019, when a Tu-22M3 crashed while trying to land at Olenya Air Base near Olenegorsk in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, killing three of the four crew on board. On Jan. 18, 2019, a pair of Su-34s crashed into the Sea of Japan after reportedly colliding with each other. Search and rescue teams safely recovered the pilot of one of the planes, as well as the bodies of the two crew from the other jet. The fourth individual involved in the accident remains missing.
The TU-22 pilot fucked up the landing... Look at the video, how fast he's coming in and then realize this thing is 55 tons completely empty, no wonder it broke apart.
Juan Brown
The Russian Air Force can't afford a hand full of knockoff F-22s that not even the poos want. What the fuck do you expect?
Austin Johnson
I don't know what's worst about these two crashes >Having to put up with mutts spamming this, when they were seething when the chain of mutt and nato crashes happened a few months ago >Having to put up with slavs seething, when they were spamming the chain of mutt and nato crashes that happened a few months ago
Didn't they accidentally sink a carrier while it was docked or something in the last few months
Jose Baker
Badly damaged the carrier, sunk the (once)- floating drydock
Elijah Lee
No, comrade. That was successful defense of glorious Admiral Kuznetsov carrier, which is #1 of most powerfullest carrier ever built, after it was brutally attacked by a foreign power masquerading as a crane. This was Russian Pearl Harbor, comrade.
Saw the footage; apparently didn't save it. Yeah. Way too fast. Milfags have speculated that there was a problem with the flaps.
Camden Adams
>a pair of Su-34s crashed into the Sea of Japan after reportedly colliding with each other fucking how?
Liam Hall
they both wanted to steal the other's gas, but when their co-pilots were walking on the wings, hose in mouth, they accidentally slammed into each other