Ukraine Says It Shot Down Three Russian Su-34 Fullbacks

[Talyn]

The fixed-wing losses, if true, would be the worst in a single day for Russia in some time, and point to changing air defense tactics.

Three Nazgûls bite the dust.

courtesy of the Patriots.

Ukraine Says It Shot Down Three Russian Su-34 Fullbacks

The fixed-wing losses, if true, would be the worst in a single day for Russia in some time, and point to changing air defense tactics.

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[Hawk Eye]

Truth is the first casualty of war.

 

[Onewolf426]

Fullbacks? I didn't know they played football.

 

[Talyn]

Fullbacks? I didn't know they played football.

In 1942, Captain Frank T. McCoy, a USAAF intelligence officer attached to Technical Air Intelligence Unit–South West Pacific, invented a system of reporting names for Japanese aircraft, to improve and speed-up secure communications and intelligence-sharing. The system was eventually adopted by the Western Allied air forces throughout Asia and the Pacific.

Following the end of World War II, the Air Standards Coordination Committee (ASCC) was formed in 1948 by the air force chiefs of staff of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.[2] ASCC was expanded to include the US Navy in 1951, the RAAF in 1964 and RNZAF in 1965.

During the Cold War, the most prominent task assigned to ASCC was the creation of reporting names – sometimes known, erroneously, as "NATO reporting names" – for aircraft originating in the Soviet Union, other Warsaw Pact countries and the People's Republic of China.

NATO reporting name - Wikipedia

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List of NATO reporting names for fighter aircraft - Wikipedia

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[Keystone19250]

And the halfbacks ran away screaming.

 

[Cedric]

Warsaw Pact aircraft identification tip: If it has a wanker, it's a Flanker.

 

[Keystone19250]

Warsaw Pact aircraft identification tip: If it has a wanker, it's a Flanker.

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