Watch this: Anti-Aircraft Fire misses Syrian MiG-21 by inches during ground attack

September 7, 2014 Syria, Troubled Areas

David Cenciotti

A Syrian Arab Air Force MiG-21 is almost hit by ground fire as it releases its bomb.

A video, originally posted on Liveleak and then removed, shows a shell (57mm one according to the uploader) streak past a Syrian MiG-21 Fishbed attacking a target near Idlib. The SyAAF jet releases its bomb just in time to escape the direct hit.

Quite impressive.

H/T to Matt Fanning for sending us the link to the video

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.