September 1st, 1983, was a tense day for the Soviet regime. A military experiment was about to begin in USSR territory. The army was conducting ground, air, and sea operations to ensure its total secrecy. Everything seemed on track along the Soviet border when a mysterious foreign aircraft was spotted near Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. After futile attempts to establish contact with the unknown aircraft, Maj, Gennadiy Osipovich, aboard his SU-15 fighter, was assigned to take it down. Recent r

On 1 September 1983, Korean Airlines flight 007 left Anchorage on its way to Seoul. However, with Cold War tensions high, it strayed off course and into Soviet territory, where it was shot down by Soviet fighters, causing outrage across the world at the destruction of a civilian commercial airline. Watch more like this on discovery : https://bit.ly/3IwMQDW | Love History