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This Is How ISIS Is Building An Airforce
Zero Hedge ^ | 8-31-2014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/30/2014 1:26:43 PM PDT by blam

Tyler Durden
08/30/2014

The Islamic State is nothing if not ambitious. Despite no record of current 'airplane' assets in their annual reports, ISIS has begun detaining and forcing Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft. According to CNN Arabic, the pilots (and their planes and helicopters) were abducted when the terrorist group gained control of Tabqa military base. It appears that if beheadings, executions, and whippings are not enough to strike fear into the hearts of the locals, then (just as America is tryiung to do), an air assault will greatly demoralize. We can only imagine how this changes Obama's strategy (and just where are all the rest of Syria and Iraq's airplanes stored?)

Via Al Arabiya,

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft, CNN Arabic reported on Saturday.

In an account reportedly associated with the militant group, ISIS said in a tweet the pilots were abducted when the group gained control over the Tabqa military airbase in Raqqa Province.

ISIS seized the airbase earlier this month. The major airfield houses warplanes, helicopters, tanks and other artillery and ammunition, which were also confiscated by ISIS, according to several media reports.

ISIS did not provide any information about the nature of the training, according to CNN Arabic.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: egypt; iran; iraq; isis; isisairforce; islam; israel; kurdistan; lebanon; russia; syria; terror
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1 posted on 08/30/2014 1:26:44 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Well, if that’s typical military aircraft of ISIS pictured, I’m not worried. I suspect it’s not, though. However, how big is the Syrian air force, how well equipped and how much damage could they do in a relatively short period of time?


3 posted on 08/30/2014 1:29:44 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: blam

Where is the Malaysian 777??


4 posted on 08/30/2014 1:33:16 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: blam

The Covert Origins of ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI


5 posted on 08/30/2014 1:34:13 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: john drake

they could have a 100 of them but you need 100 capable pilots thats the hard part


6 posted on 08/30/2014 1:35:19 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: blam

It takes time to train an effective combat pilot. I suspect these new ISIS pilots are going to be falling out of the sky on a regular basis. Syria has a fairly effective and competent IADS. These goat humpers aren’t going to be very good once their missile warning systems start blaring.
Get your popcorn ready, this should be entertaining.


7 posted on 08/30/2014 1:36:47 PM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: blam
See what happened to the rest of the Syrian soldiers that IAIS captured at the air base:

Marched to their deaths: Sickening ISIS slaughter continues as 250 soldiers captured at Syrian airbase are stripped then led to the desert for mass execution

Muslim VS Muslim, not all bad.

8 posted on 08/30/2014 1:37:42 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Where is the Malaysian 777??

Western Pakistan. Waiting...

9 posted on 08/30/2014 1:44:06 PM PDT by montag813
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To: blam
ISIS is building a Military because Obama is sitting around with his thumb up his A$$, hoping he wiil be out of office before the Cacka hits the fan.
And like pre WWII, the War weary World is allowing them to march across the globe until it will take a World War and Millions of lives to stop them!
10 posted on 08/30/2014 1:46:17 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: blam

Every last one of these aircraft should be bombed to obivion. Paging Obama on hole 9...


11 posted on 08/30/2014 1:46:30 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> ISIS has begun detaining and forcing Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft.

Hey, training jihadists to fly stolen aircraft works, as we all learned on 9/11/2001. Well, not all of us — Paultards agree with Ron Paul that 9/11 wasn’t a jihadist act.


12 posted on 08/30/2014 1:48:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: montag813

Amazingly, the Indians never noticed a commercial jet going over their airspace for hours....


13 posted on 08/30/2014 1:48:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: Falcon4.0
And by the way.
The World is War Weary, because the democRats and the media pounded the World into weariness.
14 posted on 08/30/2014 1:48:58 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: blam

Flying a jet or chopper is more complicated than driving a pickup truck or Humvee.

If I was one of those Syrian pilots, I’d get my trainee to eject himself and then fly home.


15 posted on 08/30/2014 1:50:22 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: SunkenCiv; blam; no-to-illegals; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ..

First, let’s hope the captured pilots are making mistakes in their training instructions.

Second, they may be able to fly them somewhere once or twice, but to have an Air Force, they will need to maintain. They probably excuted all the maintenance personnel.

My Special Forces son spent 4 months at helicopter maintenance school, so he could manage a fleet of 6 or 8 helicopters. My other son who worked for an avionics company said 4 months was not enough for him to repair them, but only to communicate with the workers and know what he was ordering for repairs. Fat chance that ISIS will be able to do that.


16 posted on 08/30/2014 1:56:08 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: rbg81

Why not eject yourself and let the ISIS guy die in the crash?


17 posted on 08/30/2014 1:57:47 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: blam

Can we get in-cockpit video feeds? I’d love to see this, it would be hilarious! The basic mechanics of flight are easy. Everything else...not so much.


18 posted on 08/30/2014 1:58:13 PM PDT by W. (Government: Moving at the speed of paper pushers pushing actual paper, until it benefits them)
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To: blam
Like this...
19 posted on 08/30/2014 2:04:31 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: gleeaikin

They have over $6 billion dollars and counting. You can hire mercenary maintenance personnel from the third world (MiGs are everywhere) for $20,000 a piece all day long.


20 posted on 08/30/2014 2:08:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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