• SorteKaninA
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    8 months ago

    What are those lights that keep “falling behind”? Anti missile flares?

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, the A-50 apparently knows it is under attack and is launching anti-IR flares. It is also launching anti-radar chaff, though you wouldn’t be able to see that on video at night.

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      8 months ago

      Yup. Around the 50 sec mark a missile hits one of them off to the right, before another hits the plane itself a bit later.