Syrian regime accidentally shoots down Russian military plane

CNN ^ | Updated 8:07 PM ET, Mon September 17, 2018 | Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne

[Zhang Fei]

(CNN)A Russian maritime patrol aircraft with multiple personnel on board was inadvertently shot down by Syrian regime anti-aircraft artillery on Monday after the Syrians came under attack by Israeli missiles, according to a US official with knowledge of the incident The US official said the regime was actually trying to stop a barrage of Israeli missiles. A second official confirmed that Israel was responsible for the missile strikes on the Syrian regime.

The Russian state news agency TASS reported that a Russian IL-20 military aircraft with 14 personnel on board disappeared over the Mediterranean on Monday. According to TASS, the ministry of defense specified that "the mark of IL-20 went off the radars disappeared during the attack of four Israeli F-16 aircraft on Syrian targets in the province of Latakia."

The Israelis had fired multiple missiles against targets in the coastal area of Latakia where Russian has based much of its military presence, including aircraft. In an attempt to strike back against the Israelis, the Syrians launched extensive anti-aircraft fire, the official said and the Russian aircraft was hit.

[Zhang Fei]

The Syrian Air Defense Force has seen better days.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

D’oh!

[Zhang Fei]

There’s a Homer Simpson in every large bureaucracy.

[budj]

I can’t keep track of who hates whom over there.

[familyop]

Looks like the Russians sold the Syrians a pig in a poke to begin with.

[Paul R.]

It’d be very ironic if there were Russian advisors at the Syrian AA site(s) involved.

[budj]

Reminds me of the Kingston Trio’s Merry Minuet:

“They’re rioting in Africa
They’re starving in Spain
There’s hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles

Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don’t like anybody very much!”

[prophetic]

Lol, so they sell their clients 800 missiles of which maybe 20% are good and are mostly in the first batch. But as these needs "constant maintenance" it's almost a done deal they are hooked for life. And of course since you are not dealing with western countries, there is the automatic kickbacks & bribes for everyone involved.

As the Russian & Syrian generals back at HQ are saying " Who cares if you need to fire off 4 missiles to hit a target? We can always get more, it's not like we are Americans, eh comrade? "

[prophetic]

President Nasser of Egypt was very pissed at the Russian trainers that were in the country during the 6 day war with Israel.

[familyop]

DRIVING IN RUSSIA
http://factsanddetails.com/russia/Education_Health_Transportation_Energy/sub9_6d/entry-5158.html

It gets fascinating, after you get to the subtitle, “Traffic Police in Russia.”

[Spiridon]

CNN has its version and Tass has another.

http://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2018/09/syria-breaking-russia-reports-aircraft.html

[prophetic]

Yup, the wild wild east indeed!

[JudgemAll]

Oh but they intercepted 90% of the Israeli missiles...

[JudgemAll]

Does not seem like they have IFF verifiers down there,

[OddLane]

Not many.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Oops...

[familyop]

"Does not seem like they have IFF verifiers down there."

That is interesting. The Il-20 that was hit was somewhere over 22 miles out.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks to Russian MOD it's obviously clear the downed IL-20 went airborne to assist Assad AA units in downing Israeli F-16s but on way back to airfield the operator pushed the trigger.



source: https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/status/1041991837995741185

They probably lost a lot of their most modern SIGINT eq and most of their skilled operators.

[familyop]

Russian military aircraft downed by Syrian forces, killing 15; Moscow blames Israeli aggression
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3688400/posts

[alloysteel]

Kill ‘em all and let God sort them out.

Muslims are automatically shunted over to Allah.

Hate to see what shape THAT “paradise” is in, with the new influx of so many tormented souls.