Why were they dumping fuel on the drone? Were the Russians "pissing" on the US? Lol, I've never heard of aircraft dumping fuel on an enemy aircraft. This feels like it's loaded with comms.
The drone engine ingesting fuel would possibly malfunction (too rich a combustion mixture) and fail. Easy kill. A wingtip into the propeller implies to me a high degree of piloting skill. I don't believe for a second that this was some spontaneous rogue action. It was undoubtedly per new directives. An MQ-9 is not a cheap asset and it tweaks the U.S. nose in a way that the U.S. can only respond to by blustering and whining. The implied message is: "We can do this to your expensive drones and what are you going to do about it? Get into a shooting war over a fucking robot?"
Fuel poured into the air intake stream will get compressed through at least one centrifugal stage and several axial stages before entering the combustion section.
During the compression stages the air and fuel mixture will heat up. Don't know the ignition point of JP-1 or the temperatures going through the compression stages, but if it doesn't blow the compressor stage right off the engine it would blow the exhaust section out the back.
I would love to see the video of this encounter. That MIG pilot will never have to buy a beer for the rest of his life.
Why were they dumping fuel on the drone? Were the Russians "pissing" on the US? Lol, I've never heard of aircraft dumping fuel on an enemy aircraft. This feels like it's loaded with comms.
The drone engine ingesting fuel would possibly malfunction (too rich a combustion mixture) and fail. Easy kill. A wingtip into the propeller implies to me a high degree of piloting skill. I don't believe for a second that this was some spontaneous rogue action. It was undoubtedly per new directives. An MQ-9 is not a cheap asset and it tweaks the U.S. nose in a way that the U.S. can only respond to by blustering and whining. The implied message is: "We can do this to your expensive drones and what are you going to do about it? Get into a shooting war over a fucking robot?"
Just to elaborate...
Fuel poured into the air intake stream will get compressed through at least one centrifugal stage and several axial stages before entering the combustion section.
During the compression stages the air and fuel mixture will heat up. Don't know the ignition point of JP-1 or the temperatures going through the compression stages, but if it doesn't blow the compressor stage right off the engine it would blow the exhaust section out the back.
I would love to see the video of this encounter. That MIG pilot will never have to buy a beer for the rest of his life.
Good analysis. Thanks! At the very least, the engine would exceed the turbine inlet temperature, with subsequent bad results.
Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense 👍
Okay gonna scour the IntelSlava and other channels for possible footage of this. Sounds like damn good piloting!
Not much, but just a short clip released by the Russians.
https://t.me/intelslava/45849
Biden is planning to release the footage, I am sure he is just waiting for the editing team to remove all the cool stuff the Russians did :)