Halloween Fail: Israeli Air Force Pumpkin Features Image of Russian Jet

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The Israeli Air Force just couldn’t help themselves in trying to get in on the fun of Halloween, making a post on Facebook Saturday congratulating everyone with an image of a Jack-o’-lantern featuring an outline of a fighter jet and the Air Force logo. The only problem is that the silhouette is actually the silhouette of a famous Russian fighter.

 Receiving thousands of views and likes and nearly a thousand shares in less than 24 hours, the post was a big hit.
Pumpkin wishing everyone a Happy Halloween from the IAF

 

The only problem, as pointed out by one of the first users to respond to the post, is that the plane silhouette on the pumpkin is actually clearly a Russian-made Su-27 multirole fighter. A user named Nick noted that “the only question I have about this pumpkin is why it is a Sukhoi Su-27 when the Israeli Air Force doesn’t operate them?”

Although others began defending the pumpkin carving, suggesting instead that it might have been an F-16 Fighting Falcon, it’s obvious that they were just trying to save face. See for yourself:

An F-16 Fighting Falcon:

An F-16 Fighting Falcon.
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A Sukhoi Su-27, NATO reporting name Flanker:

A Su-27, bottom view. It seems that the pumpkin may have actually been carved using this very image as a template!

Note the distinctive ‘tunnel’ wing between the two engines on the rear end of the Sukhoi. This design element has a double role, acting as an additional lifting surface, and to hide the plane’s armaments from radar detection.

The only American aircraft with this design feature is the F-14 Tomcat, which has a much shorter ‘wing’ of its own between its twin engines, and, moreover, this is not an aircraft used by the Israeli Air Force. None of the fighter planes operated by the IAF (the F-15 Eagle, the F-15E Strike Eagle or the F-16 Fighting Falcon) have anything close to the Su-27’s ‘tunnel’ wing design.

So what does it all mean? Maybe it’s a secret code for the Russian aircraft manufacturer on the kinds of planes Israel may be looking at buying from them in the future. Or maybe it’s all just a massive FAIL.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151101/1029427818/israeli-halloween-greeting-fail.html#ixzz3qFzQqz16

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