My opinion/question/guess:
Dropped fuel will partially vaporize.
HOT EXHAUST from the passing jet.
I wonder why there was not a FIREBALL ? ? ?
Bekeart
Why? Drop Fuel on the Drone
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My opinion/question/guess:
Dropped fuel will partially vaporize.
HOT EXHAUST from the passing jet.
I wonder why there was not a FIREBALL ? ? ?
Bekeart
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Landing at excess weight isn't great for landing gear (and I assume other parts), so most (all?) military jets and commercial jets have the ability to dump excess gas in case a landing is nessecary before the fuel is consumed. There's not really a need to light it, so they aren't placed in a spot where lighting it up, even if unlikely, would be a possibility. Wouldve made for some rad footage though, like when the F111s would light the dumped fuel with their afterburner.
LVSteve
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You have to engage the afterburners for dumped fuel to ignite. With no reheat the gas exiting even a military turbofan is not all that hot. The rear of the turbines is a long way in from the end of the jetpipe.
Another thought is that they might have been thinking the fuel would ignite in a bad place inside the drone motor and bring it down. Alternatively, sucking in a cloud of raw fuel might have choked the drone motor of air.
fiasconva
US Veteran
Nah! They were just showing us that no matter how high fuel costs are in Russia they can still afford to waste a little on us.
Before and after.
Notice the bent prop which forced the Air Force to drop it in the Black Sea.
Notice the bent prop which forced the Air Force to drop it in the Black Sea.
Spurdann
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I think he was trying to ignite the dumped fuel with his afterburner.
How is it that the Russians are trying to recover it but we aren't. I also agree with the mess up the cameras theory.
I agree that the fuel was used as an intended incendiary device. Jet fuel would rapidly evaporate from the cover protecting the lenses.
1. They want to examine that drone
2 they were sending a message
3 they were expecting a phone call (they didn't get it)
2 they were sending a message
3 they were expecting a phone call (they didn't get it)
Ironically, one of the biggest with the most fuel cannot dump it--the B-52.
I'm half Russian. You have to understand the Russian/Communist mind set. They are disrespecting us with a symbolic "Piss on you".
DWalt
Member
The Russians were already nearby. I believe that I heard that the U. S. Navy had no assets in the area. The current line from the DoD is that anything having intelligence value was destroyed. Wonder if Putin is going to pay us that $30 million value of the drone.
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Simple enough to place a small charge in among the electronics. Command detonation before splash down.
Abbynormal
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I thought they were trying to smother/stall the drone engine with the excess fuel.
While the DoD stopped conferring with me in '75 it is my understanding that the Reapers are thusly equipped after a fashion.
Reporting is the fuel dump was on purpose, the collision that bent the prop and bit into the wing of the Ruski jet accidental. No reason to think the Ruski pilots are any better trained than their army. They ever actually go toe to toe with US pilots in F-22's, going to be a lot of burnt up Red Stars littering the landscape.
