LIBIA italy question? or europe question?

JG27CaptStubing · #1 03-19-2011, 03:08 PM

Could be either an F1 or a Mig23 to me... I will look for more pics because I think there were several vantage points. It does look like it was hit by Air to Air or perhaps a Sam but I didn't see any missile smoke.

Biggs · #2 03-19-2011, 03:20 PM

thats definitely a Mig23...

SEE · #3 03-19-2011, 03:21 PM

IF you have Sky Sat, go to the news channels and watch the footage on the 'PressTV' channel. It's been showing the downed fighter footage in slow motion from strike to impact.

Sven · #4 03-19-2011, 03:22 PM

I'm not sure any more, the 23 also looks a lot like it.

EDIT: After seeing more pictures I have to agree with Bigs, definitely a MiG-23, now the question: is it definitely from Libya, if so was it from Gaddafi or from the Rebels?

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ver-Libya.html

Biggs · #5 03-19-2011, 03:39 PM

my money's on it being from Gaddafi's airforce.

what was it shot down by tho... the vid was zoomed out, all u really see is a little orange flash and then the plane begins to dive and burn...

AAA hit? Missile hit?

Xilon_x · #6 03-19-2011, 03:53 PM

LIBIAN PILOTS ABORT RAID TO BENGASI AND RFUGE TO MALTA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=augJ2EF8Wv4

=SLO=Hellcat · #7 03-19-2011, 04:14 PM

The Mig-23 that was shot down today supposedly belonged to the rebels. The pilot ejected too late and died.

Xilon_x · #8 03-19-2011, 04:16 PM

look at the crater that formed in the ground and 'impressive

SEE · #9 03-19-2011, 05:25 PM

First reports were it was a 'Pro Gaddafi Jet' shoy down by the rebels, followed by 'it was a rebel Jet' and shot down by the rebels by mistake and now it's a Rebel Jet shot down by Gaddafi's forces. Think I will go along with the second statement not that it matters much to the pilot.

Heliocon · #10 03-20-2011, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

LIBIAN PILOTS ABORT RAID TO BENGASI AND RFUGE TO MALTA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=augJ2EF8Wv4

1. Stop posting in all caps, especially when you are wrong. Those jets defected weeks ago/last month, look at the video date. Its old news.

Infact this whole thread is rediculous...

edit- btw the reason I opened this thread is because the title spelled "Libya", as Libia which is lol worthy.
edit2 - its even more funny because of the op screaming headlines in caps as breaking news, when the news is weeks or more old (other than the shot down Libyan AF fighter which is obviously Libyan because the UK/France are deploying Typhoons (EuroFighter/Raphael) mainly as far as I have seen, although it could of been a UAE plane but I doubt it). Even more amusing is that now everyone in the thread is mispelling Libya, I think for that alone this thread deserves incineration for some type of internet cognitive impairment virus...