Barry McCaffrey was previously the director of the National Department of Drug Control under the Bill Clinton administration. He now regularly appears on television as a military expert.

What happened?

The retired US general shared a video on Twitter, and according to him, Russian plane was shot down by Ukraine’s missile defense system.

The Russian plane was attacked by the Ukrainian missile defense system. The Russians are losing a large number of attack aircraft. Ukraine’s air defense is getting tough,
He wrote in an already deleted tweet.

The screenshot of the deleted tweet remained in the indexed archives of the Internet / Channel 24 Screenshot

According to the source, this incident shows how fast fakes can spread on the internet if you don’t check the information. Twitter users immediately noticed the error. They began to write that this is a video game “Arma 3” and that the video should be removed because “authority falls faster than Russian tanks” because of this.

It’s a video game, General. It’s very realistic, but it’s a good lesson to check resources/materials before posting online,
– said one of the users.

A video uploaded to TikTok shows several computer-generated fighters shot down by air defense missiles. The footage was recorded in the video game “Arma 3”, a popular military-tactical shooter game of 2013.

• In the beginning we see two planes, one of which was shot down by a rocket.
• It catches fire and then falls, leaving a trail of black smoke in the sky.
• The second fighter first evades missiles by emitting “heat traps” – special lights that fly in all directions and create a large number of deceptive targets for missiles aimed at the heat trace.
• But the next shot hits the target and crashes into the plane.

It is worth noting that the computer graphics in the video are quite striking on the textures of the rocks and smoke trails. Barry McCaffrey probably doesn’t play video games.