Russia loses its highest-ranking pilot in Ukraine

[rayg]

Russia loses its highest-ranking pilot yet in Ukraine as former Air Force Major, 63, comes out of retirement? and is blasted out of the skies

Maj. General Kanamat Botashev, 63, is the tenth Russian general confirmed dead

He is the highest-ranking Russian pilot to have been killed in the conflict so far

His Su-25 fighter jet was shot down by a Stinger missile over Luhansk yesterday

Land Forces of Ukraine say more than 204 Russian planes have been destroyed

Russia has lost 10 of its generals and more than 40 colonels in bloody fighting


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0CBccU5mp&cri=

[bruce]

Another one bites the dust. Sincerely. bruce.

[barretcreek]

Staying retired is a good idea.

[togor]

Military aviation sure seems like a younger man's game

[dogtag]

Staying retired is a good idea.

I'll go along with that.

Boxers come out of retirement and get knocked out.
Pilots get shot down.
Leson; You ain't what you was