Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"As Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds of RUSI reported earlier this month, the longes tranged shoot-down of the war was a Russian victory at 150 kilometers against a Ukrainian aircraft flying at less than 50 feet"
Ouch - that's worrying.
Is it? The R-37 has been known about for decades, in 1994 it hit a test target at 300km. Flying low doesn't save you from a radar thousands of feet above you.