The incident occurred in the Anninsky district approximately 200 km from the border with Ukraine, where Ukrainian drones were operating in the airspace at the time. Fighterbomber, a Russian military blogger, attributed the accident to a 'classic' human error that persists despite the use of 'friend or foe' identification systems and neural networks.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Russian Su-35 Jet Shoots Down Friendly Mi-8 Killing 3
War19 days ago
Flight crews in Russia's Voronezh region died Thursday when their helicopter was mistaken for an enemy drone. A Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet accidentally shot down a friendly Mil Mi-8 helicopter, killing all three crew members on board after the pilot misidentified the aircraft as a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle.
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