---
title: "Video Shows Ukrainian Fighter Pulling Off An Insanely-Low Flyby"
date: "2018-10-19"
modified: "2018-10-19"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller.md"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukrainian-air-force-flyby-videos/"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Ukraine"
---

# Video Shows Ukrainian Fighter Pulling Off An Insanely-Low Flyby

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The Ukrainian Air Force seems to be increasingly entertaining itself with breath-taking aerial acrobatics. Exhibit A came on Friday, when The Aviationist [flagged](<https://theaviationist.com/2018/10/19/yet-another-ukrainian-air-force-su-25-insane-low-pass-video-emerges/>) an intense clip of an SU-25 Frogfoot buzzing Ukrainian military personnel on the ground.

The footage emerged days after a California Air National Guard was killed on Tuesday when a Ukrainian SU-27B fighter crashed during the Clear Sky military exercises in western Ukraine, and they underscore a dangerous trend among Ukranian aviators: a penchant for danger-close low-level flybys frequently captured in viral videos.

- The most recent video comes barely two weeks after insane footage emerged of a supersonic Su-24M Fencer [screaming](<https://theaviationist.com/?p=61396>) across an unidentified flight line that's [likely](<https://theaviationist.com/?p=61396>) the Starokostiantyniv ("Staro”) airbase where Ukraine's 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade is based
- In June, another video [captured](<https://theaviationist.com/2018/06/10/video-shows-ukrainian-air-force-su-24mr-fencer-buzzing-the-flight-line-at-an-airbase-in-ukraine/>) another Su-24MR Fencer conducting another aggressive flyby across the Staro flight line.

- The recent incidents represent an uptick in recorded flybys after a relative lull in activity. In November 2016, footage showed a Su-27 Flanker [nearly eat shit](<https://theaviationist.com/2016/11/22/watch-this-scary-video-of-a-ukrainian-su-27-almost-crashing-into-the-ground-while-performing-yet-another-insane-low-pass/>) at an unidentified airbase after breaking right at the end of a runway, [climbing](<https://theaviationist.com/2016/11/22/watch-this-scary-video-of-a-ukrainian-su-27-almost-crashing-into-the-ground-while-performing-yet-another-insane-low-pass/>) directly over the head of an eerily-composed cameraman.
- In November 2015, a Su-25 Frogfoot [pulled off](<https://theaviationist.com/2015/11/12/su-25-flies-low-over-female-soldiers/>) a low-level victory aileron roll right above the heads of some female Ukrainian infantry posing for a photograph; the previous September, footage [emerged](<https://theaviationist.com/2015/09/28/il-76md-crazy-low-passage/>) of a massive Ukranian Il-76 cargo plane took a moment to buzz a fleet of parked Su-25s.
- Finally, in April 2014, the Aviationist surfaced one of its earliest Ukranian flyby videos with a MiG-29 [pulling a fast](<https://theaviationist.com/2014/04/16/ukrainian-mig-29-show-of-force/>) one over the city of Slovynask in a show of force to pro-Russian separatists on the ground.

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## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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