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US Navy jet downs Syrian aircraft

by Jonn Lilyea••25

According to Fox News, a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian government Su-22 when it attacked anti-government rebels;

The statement said coalition aircraft had “conducted a show of force” to turn back an attack by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s forces on the SDF in the town of Ja’Din, south of Tabqah.

The coalition said the shootdown took place “in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of Coalition partnered forces.”

The statement said “a number of SDF fighters” were wounded in the regime’s attack, but did not specify further. The coalition also said that Russian officers had been contacted on a special “de-confliction” hotline in an effort to halt the assault.

The statement from the coalition headquarters called for Syrian government forces to focus on defeating ISIS instead of the rebels.

Yeah, I don’t think the Russians will like how that turns out.

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25 thoughts on “US Navy jet downs Syrian aircraft”

      1. Its going to take a minute. They have to figure out how to make Trump in cahoots with the Russians and fighting with them at the same time.

      2. I’m sure that many a leftie pol and newsmouth are already rehearsing how they’re gonna say “We’re going to war and it’s ALL TRUMP’S FAULT…”

  5. Hopefully it was a gun kill.

    No need to waste any ‘high end’ air-to-air missiles on an SU-22.

    Get some, Navy!

      1. Do you think that they’ve painted a silhouette of an SU-22 on the canopy rail of that F/A-18E yet?

        I’ll bet that they have.

        A big, bright red SU-22.

  6. So the Navy is back in the air-to-air business. That’s cool! The saber-rattling by Comrade Vlad really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, I mean, if Trump’s really on their payroll like the left all claim. Yet another implication that the left is full of shit again.

    1. Old Soviet joke (plus my mangled Russian)
      Nye Pravda Izvestia
      Nye Izvestia Pravda

      No News Truth. No Truth News.

          1. Nyet, tovarisch!

            “2 + 2 = 5. The arithmetic of an industrial-financial counter-plan plus the enthusiasm of workers.”

            Soviet poster promoting the first five-year plan, 1931

      1. Some Iranian General said “the biggest slap is yet to come”, at at this point I f’ing believe them. I was ok-ish with the low-level intensity ground stuff. This situation is just getting bad and quick. Apparently Iran hadn’t launched a medium range missile out for 15 years. Thanks to all that Obummer cash guess what toys they can now afford?
        I just cross my fingers they haven’t figured out how to sneak a small nuke over from their buddies in the more northern of the Koreas.
        I swear this is like a Clancy movie/book. (Still using the willpower to fight the urge to watch The Hunt…)

        1. Apparently, Iran has launched missiles into Syria. Was just on Fox News, and CNN has it online.

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