By Tom Demerly
FLIR Images Show F-15 Shoot-Down, Weapon Used May Have
Been Repurposed AAM.
Images and video have surfaced of what is claimed to be a
Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 Eagle being shot down by an unspecified surface to
air (SAM) missile over Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa. The video is alleged to
have been obtained using a ground-mounted forward-looking infra-red sensor
usually mounted on helicopters for surveillance and targeting: most probably a
Flir Systems ULTRA 8500.
The clip appears to show an F-15 Eagle, version unknown.
The video is shot from the right side of the aircraft,
and as the aircraft rolls right, the height of the starboard (right) vertical
stabilizer/rudder appears to be shorter than normal on an F-15, as though part
of it is already missing: someone suggested that may have already sustained
damaged to at least one of its vertical stabilizers even though this seems to
be a bit far-fetched based on the available clip......Read rest of article: HERE
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