UFO in the Ukraine

[bgbllbffr]

http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb/281_6279.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/media/5713-UFO-in-the-Ukraine) Not quite sure what that is....or what there saying. Is it an actual piece of military equipment or some gaghttp://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/media/5713-UFO-in-the-Ukraine)

[Mita]

to me it looks like one of the "V"weapons from WW2 and a tomahawk-missle got a child together

[igloo11]

It appears to be a Tupolev Tu-143 recon drone...We're talking 70s and 80s vintage stuff there. Should have been in a museum. Don't think it's one of the later variants. At least that rebel better hope it's not because those could be fitted with munitions. :)

[Dagger64]

LOL I found a listing in Jane's. Was never designed with a warhead, early early drone technology. Kinda like an old 16mm film camera for my Estes Rocket kits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5unfE82BI

[CadetSV63]

Yeah - looks like an upgraded + steroids of a V1 - propulsion looks like it could be a reed pulse jet rather than turbine (ahh - see it was in fact a turbo jet) and, tend to assume guidance (if any!) by simple inertial. Presume reconnaissance pod already gone.

[sirspikey]

it hasn't been there for very long if you look at the vegetation

[LKNANML]

An old Soviet Tu-143 reconnaissance drone allegedly deployed by the Ukrainian army has crashed near Donetsk, with local militia, initially not aware of what that monstrosity was, suspecting in the video to have downed Kiev’s "weapon of mass destruction."

The YouTube video of the downed drone claims the archaic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down “at approximatly 13:30 local time near Shahtersk.” In the video, the representatives of DPR anti-Kiev forces say that the “object will be further identified.”

“Today we have shot down ‘something’ over our skies,” a man in the video says. “At first, we thought it was an unmanned drone. But now we have doubts.”

[serpa6]

there are 3 versions of this aircraft and yes one of them could be fitted with munnitions read up on it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-143

[BrownChickenBrownCow]

its a propaganda video. Russians hauled out old surplus and filmed themselves as big heroes of "NovoRussia". Hahaha

[avdefender]

It's sun baked like it sat at the bone yard in Tucson. The exhaust cowling is clean so my guess is it fell out of a Soviet junk man's truck. I'd like to know if the Russian people are that stupid to actually believe that this thing flew in?