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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

The shoot down only happened because the Americans were complacent (1) and the Serbs behaved reckless (2) and got lucky (3).

  1. flying the same routes every night
  2. doing three radar sweeps despite needing to to move after one.
  3. getting a lock during the second the bomb bays are open