Polen fängt zum zweiten Mal in einer Woche ein russisches Spionageflugzeug Il-20 ab
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-intercepts-russian-spy-plane-for-2nd-time-in-a-week/
Polen fängt zum zweiten Mal in einer Woche ein russisches Spionageflugzeug Il-20 ab
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-intercepts-russian-spy-plane-for-2nd-time-in-a-week/
9 Kommentare
So recon planes flying in international airspace is a crime now
Just shoot it down
Still no balls to shoot it down which is only going to encourage russians to escalate.
The only thing russians understand is force.
For the „WHY DIDN’T THEY SHOOT IT DOWN“ horde, here’s a lesson in reading „intercept“ headlines:
* If the headline doesn’t explicitly mention a violation of national/sovereign airspace, it almost certainly happened in international airspace and they omitted that fact from the headline because then you wouldn’t click it.
* If the headline mentions an Air Defense Identification Zone or similar, it happened in international airspace. The ADIZ typically spans well past the actual sovereign airspace, in the case of Taiwan it spans *over mainland China* (although „violations“ are usually only reported once the planes cross the median line, which is still international airspace).
* If the headline claims a violation of airspace, it’s worth a closer look, but there’s still a good chance the journalist confused national airspace with an ADIZ or similar, either due to incompetence or to get you to click.
From the article, emphasis on the parts that give you hints or outright tell you what happened:
> … during a patrol **over the Baltic Sea** on April 9, …
> The aircraft was flying **in international airspace** without a filed flight plan and with its transponder turned off
–> They were being dicks and provoking, but within their rights and there was no justification to shoot it down. Western countries do the same, with planes *and* ships, sometimes just to assert that international laws still apply and ships/planes are allowed to go where they are going.
Actual airspace violations do happen but they are quite rare. Stuff like this, on the other hand, is extremely common.
It seems like it might not be a very good spy plane.
Most of the current bullshit in the world ( even Trump ) can be traced to Russian actions.
Imagine a world without a country that constantly has to mess with everyone and everything because thats the only thing that makes them feel good about themselves.
( in b4 „Herpaderp but the US“ )
Third time and Poland get to keep it.
A Russian aircraft was flying from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad over international waters. Shocking, I can’t believe it, how dare those Russians. But seriously, why is the most upvoted comment ‘shoot it down’? If you want to start a war, why not strike military bases? Why shoot down an unarmed aircraft over neutral waters and then wait for a military response?
Shoot first, ask questions later.