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Armenian SU-25 jet shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter
Armenian Radio ^ | September 29, 2020 | Siranush Ghazanchyan

Posted on 09/29/2020 10:36:33 AM PDT by NorseViking

A Su-25 jet of the Armenian Air Force was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter in the airspace of the Republic of Armenia, Spokesperson for the Armenian Defense Ministry Shushan Stepanyan informs.

F-16 fighter jets belonging to the Air Force of the Republic of Turkey took off from Ganja Airport of the Republic of Azerbaijan at 10:30 am today and were assisting SU-25 fighters and Turkish-made Bayraktar UAVs in the missile strikes on Vardenis, Mets Masrik, Sotk regions of the Vardenis region of Armenia.

During this period, the air defense units were performing fire support tasks for the air defense units of the RA Armed Forces.

During the air-to-air battles the F-16 multifunctional fighter of the Air Force of the Republic of Turkey struck the SU-25 jet of the Armenian Air Force in the airspace of the Republic of Armenia.

The pilot was killed in the attack.

The F-16 was at 60km depth and 8200 altitude, she said.

On Tuesday, Armenia’s Defense Ministry said a passenger bus had been hit by an Azerbaijani drone in the eastern Armenian city of Vardenis. There were no reports of casualties.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.armradio.am ...


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To: wardaddy

I don’t doubt it. All I know is that she wasn’t able to reel him in.


41 posted on 09/29/2020 11:17:15 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: NorseViking
May not have happened
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By Joseph Trevithick September 29, 2020

Everything We Know About The Fighting That Has Erupted Between Armenia And Azerbaijan
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By Joseph Trevithick and Thomas Newdick September 28, 2020

42 posted on 09/29/2020 11:18:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: freedumb2003

Deluding yourself about the truth does you no good in the end. And a cocky F-16 pilot who thinks as you do that goes into a gunfight with a late mark SU-30 won’t be coming back.

Time marches on; you’re like the guy that goes to the track with his heavily modded 80s Corvette and says that it’ll beat anything ever and promptly gets owned by... some family’s minivan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7EFimXc3mM


43 posted on 09/29/2020 11:19:48 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: NorseViking

I’ll have to do some research/reading on the two.
Thanks for the info.


44 posted on 09/29/2020 11:21:06 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Spktyr

Not a pilot, just an admirer.

:)


45 posted on 09/29/2020 11:22:54 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Spktyr
the 25 does look like it more than a little bit

i love how the Russian girl put her head down for the shot in the vid i sent you

46 posted on 09/29/2020 11:35:00 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Spktyr

“I suspect that Turkey is about to be short some F-16s courtesy of the Armenian Air Force’s four SU-30s.”

I seriously don’t think that the F-16’s have anything to fear regarding the SU-30’s.

The F-16 can take a 9G turn and out turn any 4th or 5th Generation fighter out there.If its up to recent NATO Specs it should have decent AIM-120 AMMRAM Missiles along with some decent AIM 9 Sidewinders.

That plane will run rings around any other Aircraft in the hands of a good pilot.


47 posted on 09/29/2020 12:04:35 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: puppypusher

You may want to go look at the specs of the SU-30MKI, MK2 and SM, the last of which is what the Armenians bought. The SU-30 is a supermanueverable fighter and in exercises it out turns the F-16 - the Indians routinely exercise with US forces in their SU-30MKIs. The SU-30 also has integrated off axis launch capability and IR look-down-shoot-down capability, neither of which the F-16 of that type has.

SU-30s also have the R-77/AA-12 Adder missiles that outrange the AMRAAM missiles that Turkey has.


48 posted on 09/29/2020 12:10:13 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Chode

Yeah, saw that. Then again, Russian women have some history as combat tank crew, too...

As for the SU-25, it could be espionage, it could be parallel design evolution, it could be both.


49 posted on 09/29/2020 12:11:23 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: EEGator

“The Turks didn’t kill enough of them in 1915?”

No, that’s why they continued to slaughter them up into the early 1920s.


50 posted on 09/29/2020 12:40:33 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: AFB-XYZ

“BUT .... what if Turkey looks likely to annihilate Azerbaijan, an ally of Russia (assuming the Commonwealth of Independent States still exists)?”

Why would Turkey want to do that? Turkey is on the side of Azzerbaijan, and is hostile towards Armenia.


51 posted on 09/29/2020 12:46:30 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Well yes, but it seems like things change so quickly over there .... BFFs today can turn into mortal enemies tomorrow. That’s one of the things I wonder about the most.

Obviously I need to get out more. LOL :-)


52 posted on 09/29/2020 1:02:35 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: puppypusher

The first indication an F-16 pilot would have that he’s facing an F-22 is when the missile lock warning sounds. After that, if he’s an amazing pilot with superhuman reflexes, he’ll have enough time to eject before he dies.


53 posted on 09/29/2020 1:16:53 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Tucker39

She killed Keith Whitley essentially

A bad girl

Always the most fun ...those


54 posted on 09/29/2020 1:58:54 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Spktyr
Yeah, saw that. Then again, Russian women have some history as combat tank crew, too...

I enjoyed "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", they made a series too a few years ago.

55 posted on 09/29/2020 2:04:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wardaddy

I didn’t realize Whitley had actually been married to Morgan. She was a high stepper. To say SHE drove him to the bottle might have a grain of truth in it. Thanx.


56 posted on 09/29/2020 3:38:07 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Spktyr

Thanks. Just the info I was hoping to find.


57 posted on 09/29/2020 4:40:49 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (All modern progressive and revolutionary movements are at bottom attacks on private property-Shaw)
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbtoWV8WSi4

I am told that while “Fighting Girlfriend” is a technically correct literal translation of the name of her tank, a more correct translation is “Sister In Arms”.


58 posted on 09/29/2020 5:16:11 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Tucker39

It’s more than that he knew she was blanking around on him the night he drank himself to death

She’s deadly

But so hot

Sorta not guilty


59 posted on 09/29/2020 5:23:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Chode
Mariya Oktyabrskaya and her Model 1942 T34/76 tank, Fighting Girlfriend:

While they both survived a surprisingly long time in battle, neither she nor her original tank would live long enough to make it to Berlin. But there was *a* Fighting Girlfriend that fought all the way to Berlin, an IS-2 heavy tank crewed by survivors of the original.


60 posted on 09/29/2020 5:30:57 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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