TITLE:        Why the Soviets Fired at Their Own Planes ✈️
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
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Soviet soldiers would intentionally fire at their own planes. You see, when

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FULL SCRIPT:
Soviet soldiers would intentionally fire at their own planes. You see, when troops were in dense forests, they would shoot tracer rounds toward their own aircraft to signal where to drop supplies. And sometimes they even fired in circular bursts, creating a ring of fire to mark the drop zone. But there were cases when pilots mistook the tracers for an attack and fired back in response.

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TIMED:
[000.08] Soviet soldiers would intentionally fire
[002.16] at their own planes. You see, when
[003.84] troops were in dense forests, they would
[005.60] shoot tracer rounds toward their own
[007.12] aircraft to signal where to drop
[008.80] supplies. And sometimes they even fired
[010.96] in circular bursts, creating a ring of
[013.04] fire to mark the drop zone. But there
[014.64] were cases when pilots mistook the
[016.08] tracers for an attack and fired back in
[018.08] response.
