This pilot stares at the horizon when the warning tone hits.
Sharp. Urgent. Wrong.
His F-16 Fighting Falcon jolts as the missile finds him—impact ripping through the airframe. The engine coughs… then dies. Silence replaces the roar.
Fuel starts pouring out behind him.
Then the fire.
Flames crawl up from the tail as the jet turns into dead weight in his hands. Iraq below. Border miles away. No thrust. No options.
He’s not flying anymore… he’s falling.
Every instinct says fight it—glide, hold it together, stretch every second. But the numbers don’t lie. He’s not going to make it.
A breath. A decision.
Handle pulled.
Canopy detonates. The seat rockets him into open sky—violent, blinding—
Then silence.
Parachute blooms.
He’s alive.
But he’s drifting down into enemy territory…
What happens when he lands?
In an epic act of trolling, a man who knew he was being set up, filmed himself selling completely legal flower buds to an undercover cop who was trying to buy weed.
Plot twist: He was still arrested.
Really impressive video of a Shahed being shot down by an F-16 fighter jet from the 107th Aviation Wing of the Ukrainian Air Force.
The interception was carried out using the aircraft’s M61A1 Vulcan onboard rotary cannon.
This guy fires his SMAW rocket launcher, but instead of launching a rocket, he shoots a bullet, thanks to its built-in spotting rifle.
The spotting rifle, mounted alongside the main tube, fires special 9mm tracer rounds that are ballistically matched to the rocket's trajectory. This lets the gunner trace the exact flight path with visible tracers out to about 500 meters, removing guesswork from aiming.