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Offline endicom

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Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« on: July 24, 2018, 12:58:56 pm »
Fox News
Katherine Lam
July 24, 2018

Israel shot down a Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet Tuesday that infiltrated its airspace, the Israeli military announced.

The jet entered about 1.2 miles into Israeli airspace before it was hit by a pair of Patriot missiles, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

It's the first downing of a Syrian jet since a U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet shot one down over Syria in June 2017 after the Syrian plane fired on U.S.-backed Syrian forces.

More... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/24/syrian-fighter-jet-shot-down-after-infiltrating-israeli-airspace-israeli-military-says.html
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2018, 01:46:33 pm »
Another act of aggression on Israel's part.
/sarcasm
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2018, 01:54:57 pm »




Unclear if it’s the SU-22 (bottom) or the SU-24, but they’re both attack aircraft.
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2018, 01:56:54 pm »
Quote from: edpc on July 24, 2018, 01:54:57 pm




 Unclear if it’s the SU-22 (bottom) or the SU-24, but they’re both attack aircraft.


In either case, the Patriot system worked.

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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2018, 02:00:13 pm »
Syrian AF on the job

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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2018, 02:04:43 pm »
So were 72 virgins included in the price of this suicide mission?
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2018, 02:05:37 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on July 24, 2018, 02:04:43 pm
So were 72 virgins included in the price of this sucide mission?

Apparently not. Both pilots elected over Syrian territory.
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2018, 02:09:46 pm »
Quote from: endicom on July 24, 2018, 01:56:54 pm
In either case, the Patriot system worked.


It’s very good, especially if it’s the PAC-3 model.  The Israelis do a lot of useful combat testing for our hardware.  Those old Soviet planes don’t have the jamming pods and countermeasures to deal with a modern air defense system.
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2018, 02:37:01 pm »
Syria knows, any such plane will be shot down. One really wonders what their aim was. It's practically a suicide mission.

"Israel said that it tracked the plane from the time it took off from the T-4 airbase and traveled “at high speed” towards the Golan."
http://www.thetower.org/5485-idf-shoots-down-syrian-jet-that-violated-israeli-airspace/
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« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2018, 02:44:24 pm »
This also seems to make one wonder as to how Russia can enforce any agreement for Iranian forces to stay away from that border when they can't even control where the Syrians fly their planes.
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2018, 02:44:46 pm »
Quote from: edpc on July 24, 2018, 01:54:57 pm
...Unclear if it’s the SU-22 (bottom) or the SU-24, but they’re both attack aircraft.

The Jerusalem Post learned the pilot was Colonel Umran Mare of Tartous. He was flying a two-seater Suhkoi 22 jet. The second pilot is believed to have bailed out of the aircraft and is still missing.

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-fires-Patriot-missiles-against-Syrian-jet-in-Golan-Heights-563275
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2018, 02:54:09 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on July 24, 2018, 02:05:37 pm
Apparently not. Both pilots elected over Syrian territory.

That would make it a SU-24. SU-22 only has one pilot.
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Re: Syrian fighter jet shot down after infiltrating Israel's airspace, Israeli military says
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2018, 03:20:55 pm »
Quote from: jpsb on July 24, 2018, 02:54:09 pm
That would make it a SU-24. SU-22 only has one pilot.

When the improved Su-17UM3 two-seater was introduced, an export version with the R29BS-300 engine was built as the "Su-22UM3". Only 9 were delivered because the AL-21F-3 engine was finally released for export, and so export production moved on to the "Su-22UM3K", which was almost identical to the Su-17UM3. 41 were built. The Su-22UM3 and Su-22UM3K both retained the NATO reporting name of "Fitter-G".

http://www.airvectors.net/avsu17_2.html

There were eventually 335 two-seaters produced.

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