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US Fighter Jet Tracking Russian Su-35 Over Syria Suffered Sensor Malfunction, Report Says
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11:55 GMT 16.02.2021(updated 12:23 GMT 16.02.2021) Get short URL
by Ilya Tsukanov
 

The Russian and US militaries set up an air ‘deconfliction mechanism’ over Syria in the fall of 2015 to reduce tensions and rule out accidental aerial incidents and escalations. Since then, the two countries have largely managed to avoid clashes involving Russian and American forces. But there have been exceptions.

A US F/A-18E Super Hornet monitoring a Russian Su-35 fighter jet suffered a failure of its Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera during a mission over Syria in 2017, the RAND Corporation, a California-based think tank doing research for the US military, has revealed in a report.

According to think tank, the sensor breakdown took place on 18 June 2017, when US fighters assigned to carry out a close air support (CAS) mission to assist US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) troops on the ground in northeast Syria got into a dogfight with a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber as it approached SDF positions.

https://sputniknews.com/military/202102161082092276-us-fighter-jet-tracking-russian-su-35-over-syria-suffered-sensor-malfunction-report-says/