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Do you guys know Soviets' answer to the Rust incident? http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/05/world/pilotless-soviet-jet-crosses-europe-before-crashing.html http://

• varjag 15y ago
  You read too much into that. Here's a bit of an inside view. My father was a Soviet tank forces officer at the time. When they were given a brief of the incident in the morning, he remarked "this surely must be zampolit at work" (a deputy political officer, CPSU hand in the army). Dad got reprimanded for that right in place, by, well, another zampolit. So some days after, the pilot was identified as deputy political officer to the airforce division commander. He forgot to turn out afterburn after the take off, misread that as engine failure, shat his pants and ejected.