the Russian escort fighters will be of no use when the bombers stay in Syria
The hubris of the Russian commanders got their plane shot down and a helicopter destroyed and several troops dead. They will be more circumspect in the future
The incident was embarrassing for the commanders
“The hubris of the Russian commanders got their plane shot down and a helicopter destroyed and several troops dead. They will be more circumspect in the future”
A little melodramatic. We’ve had similar instances in US history.
I’m not so sure of that. The area it crashed in was Syrian. Turkey apparently has made it’s own no-fly zone in Syrian airspace due to Syrian forces taking shots at Turkish forces and that’s possibly where the encounter took place.