Originally Posted by
culzean12
I can’t imagine that the Flanker pilot would have been intending to collide. But to fly on a collision course with a high rate closure and rely on a last second break away while belly-up to the target…. that’s gross ineptitude. They wouldn’t last a minute in a shooting match. I hope Putin realises that.
From the footage I would agree that there was no intent to ram the Reaper but just botched it big time.
Seems both sides try to minimize the incident.