The last moments of Major Filipov
On February 3, while flying over the de-escalation zone in the Syrian province of Idlib, a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was attacked and shot down by a missile fired from a MANPADS. The pilot of the attack aircraft, Major Roman Filipov, managed to report to the command about the attack from the ground and until the last tried to keep the damaged aircraft in the air.
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Despite all efforts, the damaged attack aircraft crashed near the village of Tell Debes, which was under the control of terrorists. The pilot managed to eject in time. The dushmans immediately assembled a capture group and very quickly discovered the wreckage of the fallen plane. Soon they reached the pilot’s landing site and surrounded him tightly with the aim of capturing him alive.
Major Roman Filipov only had to take his last battle in order to give his life as dearly as possible. At the scene of the battle, Stechkin’s service pistol was found, one completely empty and two half-full clips, indicating that the unequal battle was short and hot. Roman Filipov threw several grenades at the dushmans and the last one blew himself up along with several enemies surrounding him.
In the video filmed by the terrorists, a seriously wounded pilot can be heard shouting “This is for the boys!” explodes the last grenade. The “spirits”, thinned by shrapnel, slowly and cautiously surround the pilot’s body...
Very soon it became known that the rocket was fired from the territory in which gangs of militants “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” operate - a “rebranded” hodgepodge of scraps from the Syrian nusrachi and other terrorist remnants still operating in “Greater Idlib”.
Already on Sunday, the Russian military contingent in Syria carried out a retaliation operation, striking with high-precision weapons the areas from which the fatal shot from a MANPADS was recorded. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, at least 30 Nusrach were destroyed by the cleansing fire.
Currently, in the same area, groups of special operations forces of the Syrian army are searching for shot tubes in order to identify the “benefactors” who transferred dangerous weapons to terrorists. The search operation is being covered from the air by the Syrian Air Force.
In case the tubes from the MANPADS are not found (and this is quite likely, so as not to expose the hand that provides the materiel), in the area over which the attack aircraft was defeated, a search is also being carried out for missile fragments, which can also tell a lot about the type of missile and its location origin.
The American side, which is very fond of putting high-precision weapons into the mangy paws of all kinds of scoundrels, began to mutter loudly, “MANPADS are not ours,” as if the thief’s hat had suddenly caught fire.
The Aviationist website, with links to an Arabic source, provides details from which it follows that Major Filipov’s attack aircraft was shot down by a missile by people from a car that came from nowhere. And “these were not militants controlling the area around the city of Masaran.” The source also reports that unknown persons were going to shoot down another Russian Su-25 with a MANPADS.
In addition, witnesses of the plane being hit by a missile say that the missile hit the target despite the attack aircraft shooting off heat traps, which means that Russia is not alone in testing the latest weapons in the conditions of the Syrian war.
So far, there is no shortage of versions about the origin of MANPADS. A number of military experts and journalists claim that Roman Filipov’s attack aircraft was shot down from a “stinger”, which spoiled a lot of blood for our Air Force back in Afghanistan. According to other sources, the MANPADS came to the terrorists from Ukraine.
The last battle of the Russian pilot did not go unnoticed throughout the world. Internet users from different countries, including Russia’s geopolitical enemies, appreciated the courage and military spirit of Roman Filipov, comparing him with the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
Major Roman Filipov, born in 1984, was a competent first-class attack pilot with Syrian combat experience behind him. I wanted to become a pilot since childhood. In 2006 he graduated from the Armavir Center of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School. He served in the 187th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (Chernigovka village, Primorsky Krai). He went through all the ranks from senior pilot to deputy squadron commander of the attack air regiment of the Eastern Military District, from where he was seconded to the Russian Air Force Air Group in Syria. He repeatedly took part in the All-Russian military maneuvers “Aviadarts”, where in 2013 he took second place among attack aircraft.
The deceased pilot left behind a family, his four-year-old daughter was orphaned...
The downed Su-25 aircraft (tail number 06) was first assigned to an air regiment in the Kuban, and in 2014 it was redeployed to Crimea, where it was assigned to the 37th mixed aviation regiment of the 27th mixed aviation division of the 4th Army of the Southern Air Force and Air Defense. military district. At the moment, the PPD of Roman Filipov’s regiment is located at the Gvardeyskoye airbase.
This insignificant fact caused a lot of speculation and an explosion of ghoulish joy among the pan-headed “spilnot”, who spread the rumor that Roman Filipov was from Crimea and served in the Ukrainian Air Force before reunification with Russia. Quoting the statements of “spilnota” is only spreading dirt. Anyone who had the opportunity to communicate with this contingent can easily imagine their comments.
As it became known just yesterday, some die-hard enthusiasts did not benefit from dancing on bones: a boomerang thrown at another person committed a karmic loop, returned and pierced the shoulder pan right through. The team of authors of jingoistic comics about the adventures of the “special honorees” Kiya, Khoriv, Shchek and their sister Lybid suffered an irreparable loss.
I would like to say a sincere word to the Svidomo necrophiliac so that they don’t get too happy. After all, the comrades and colleagues of the deceased hero Roman Filipov have eyes and probably take note of this whole dog wedding organized in the Bandera camp. Russian combat pilots will not enter into discussions and skirmishes with scoundrels, but will quietly remember their fallen comrade and firmly remember how the Maidan demons mocked his death. And in the event that an order is given to them, they will know for sure what kind of scum got into their bomb sight.
It only remains to add that the President of the Russian Federation signed a Decree conferring the title of Hero of Russia on Major Filipov. His body was delivered to his homeland and a funeral will take place on February 8 with full honors. In the cities of Voronezh, Vladivostok and Kaliningrad they are going to name streets after Roman Filipov.
Moments are handed out - to whom shame, to whom infamy, and to whom immortality...
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