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Did the RSF Shoot Down a Loyalist MIG?

War is hard. Video editing is easy

Ryan McBeth

Jan 11

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The Sudanese Rapid Security Forces (RSF) claimed to have shot down a Sudanese Loyalist MIG. But there are problems with the story.

The RSF Twitter page claims to have:

down[ed] a MIG warplane, the wreckage of which was scattered in the East Nile region of Khartoum, and arresting one of the pilots, while the other died after his parachute

However, the only 2-seater Sudanese warplane is the Su-24.

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The rocket at the beginning of the video may be a Chinese FA-6 or FA-16 MANPADS. However, I can only base this off of the carrying strap and sights.

The images accompanying the video, which are ostensibly of the shoot down debris field, seem to be that of an Iranian Mohajer-6 drone.

It is impossible to determine if a MIG was shot down by the RSF, however the debris field is not consistent with an aircraft and is more likely that of a drone such as the Mohajer-6.