This MiG-21 was filmed under brilliant sunset lighting as it snaked its way through its bombing run. Then, just as it released its payload, an anti-aircraft shell comes streaking by, below the attacking Fishbed.
If the pilot saw that supersonic glowing grapfruit rip by his aircraft at such an inopportune time, he probably had some wobbly legs getting out of the cockpit after landing.
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