This video is commented on by former military pilot and blogger Fighter Bomber

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📽 This video is commented on by former military pilot and blogger Fighter Bomber:
"There are fantastic people in military aviation. I did not specifically write that they are the best. The work is the best, yes, but the people are fantastic. Wonderful. Both pilots and engineers (I do not distinguish them and never have).
Many of them, of course, act like fools, and they do it very well, and some in the opposite way, but the vast majority of aviators are fantastic people. They are genuine. Alive. And despite the daily pressure from above, despite notebooks, briefings, and photo reports, the vast majority of our pilots love and know how to fly. Sometimes against all odds, but they can and know how to do it.
It is interesting that in battle and in peacetime almost all pilots are different. They reveal themselves in different ways. The shy become fierce fighters, the 'aces' a nullity. After all, like all people.

In the video, a montage of cases in the Operational Control Zone (KOR) from one of the trips in which I was lucky to participate personally. In the end, it turned out that these are practically the only videos on your internet where a pair of Su-34 disperses a pair of NATO fighters, who came to perform an identification and recognition procedure in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
Well, to be completely honest, in one of the episodes we were helped/covered by a Su-27 in which sat that 'Vitya' of the "Demons," who actually explained to us before the flights about air combat and how different it was from textbook battles. And we learned what the "ear"* is.

Of course, the official task of our pair of Su-34 was to patrol and search for assigned targets, but obviously these tasks were not even remotely comparable to the opportunity to dogfight with the "bourgeois." I wish such opportunities to every military pilot. And, of course, their splendid realization.
And, of course, I have also heard that there are a million of these videos. Everyone says there are a million, but for some reason no one has seen them.

*In the context of military aviation jargon, "the ear" (in Russian, "ухо", ukho) refers to the radar warning receiver (RWR).
This device is a crucial sensor present in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, tasked with "listening" to radar signals emitted by enemy aircraft or missiles.

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