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BREAKING: Second pilot found dead amid reports rescue helicopter also DOWNED
UKexpress ^ | 11/24/15 | Leda Reynolds

Posted on 11/24/2015 4:40:24 AM PST by winoneforthegipper

A RUSSIAN helicopter has been downed while searching for the pilots who ejected from their burning jet after it was shot down this morning while flying over Syria, according to unconfirmed reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: helicopter; iran; pilots; russia; syria; turkey
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“”””The area is mainly populated by Turkmens - Syrians citizens, but ethnic Turks - and is the target of a current Syrian government offensive, where President Bashar al-Assad’s ground troops are supported by Russian airstrikes””””

Bingo.


41 posted on 11/24/2015 5:07:56 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Netz

I cannot believe Erdogan is so stupid. He must know that there will be severe consequences to this.


42 posted on 11/24/2015 5:12:26 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: winoneforthegipper

If I were Putin. I would launch an intermediate range ballistic missile right over turkey with a low kiloton nuclear warhead exploding over Raqqa.

The next phone call I would make is to notify the country of turkey look the next nuclear missile may have a malfunction if they persist.


43 posted on 11/24/2015 5:13:03 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: DAC21
Boris will be pissed, how much do the muzzies really want to poke the Bear?

Unlike Obama, Putin will do a lot more than just send them a strongly worded letter.

44 posted on 11/24/2015 5:14:43 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: 1rudeboy

well, then i hope he just kills everyone there. why take the chance?


45 posted on 11/24/2015 5:14:45 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I think he is probably counting on it, his dreams of a cross border group of muzzies is fading.


46 posted on 11/24/2015 5:16:22 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Alberta's Child

For all their vaunted prowess, the only reason the Soviets beat the Nazis was that Hitler was an ass, fighting on two fronts and attempting to be his own General, and the fact that they simply threw bodies and materiel into the fray, heedless of cost or human life.


47 posted on 11/24/2015 5:18:43 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: 4rcane
"Why do ppl side with Turkey and ISIS on here?"

It is hard to believe some folks here side with zero and the terrorists. I'm with Putin on this fight.

48 posted on 11/24/2015 5:19:23 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping


49 posted on 11/24/2015 5:19:33 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: FreedomPoster

“We still have a big AF base as Incirlik, and supposedly just moved half a dozen F-22s there’

Uh-oh. We’d better move them, they are REALLY freaking expensive. And irreplaceable.


50 posted on 11/24/2015 5:22:26 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: winoneforthegipper

But this isn’t as important as climate change.....


51 posted on 11/24/2015 5:23:13 AM PST by wny
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To: dp0622

I’m referring to the whole incident from start to finish. The loss of the helicopter was just the latest debacle. I think it’s pretty much conceded that the Russian jet had violated Turkey’s airspace.


52 posted on 11/24/2015 5:23:26 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: jpsb

The same people that sided with the rape of Libya, since it was a NATO op. They support Obama, Hillary, the Muslim brotherhood, ISIS, etc.


53 posted on 11/24/2015 5:23:53 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: 4rcane

Because FR has a contingent of liberals that for some reason avoid lightning.


54 posted on 11/24/2015 5:25:39 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it and survive the liberal menace)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“For all their vaunted prowess, the only reason the Soviets beat the Nazis was that Hitler was an ass, fighting on two fronts and attempting to be his own General, and the fact that they simply threw bodies and materiel into the fray, heedless of cost or human life.”

I’d say that they won ALSO due to the ingeniousness and industriousness of their people when their backs were up against the wall, producing “good enough” weaponry in mass quantities under hellish conditions. Stalin supposedly said words to the effect that quantity has a quality of its own. In the meantime, the Germans kept making increasingly complex and sophisticated weaponry, at great expense with little effect. There’s a lesson to be learned in there somewhere...


55 posted on 11/24/2015 5:27:11 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Is this total war?


56 posted on 11/24/2015 5:27:14 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: Travis McGee
Comparing this map with Google Maps for scale the Russian jet flew across a section of Turkish airspace about a mile wide. Assuming two passes at 300 miles an hour that means that they were over Turkish airspace for about 24 seconds- and 300 MPH is slow for an attack jet with a top speed of over 800 knots.

Something about the Turkish story just doesn't add up, like who's airspace was the Falcon in when he engaged the Fencer? Were the Turks flying top cover for the Turkmen rebels?

Maybe some former Air Force guys can weigh in on how long it takes to line up on a target, get tone on a sidewinder and shoot. Looks like this had to go down pretty quick.

57 posted on 11/24/2015 5:27:32 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Gold, Platinum, Silver and Lead. Not necessarily in that order...)
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To: jpsb

Maybe because some people understand that Putin is as much of a ****head as Ergodan is.


58 posted on 11/24/2015 5:27:56 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: wny

“But this isn’t as important as climate change.....”

...after all, climate change is the source of all of these problems.


59 posted on 11/24/2015 5:28:32 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Its like a speed trap, they set up and wait for them to cross the line.


60 posted on 11/24/2015 5:29:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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