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.
BREAKING: Russia says it will treat US-led coalition planes in Syria, west of the Euphrates, as targets after US downed Syrian jet.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 19, 2017
Yeah, I don’t think the Russians will like how that turns out.
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I bet the Ordies in that squadron are crowing big time.
Good … and if the Russkis wanna play, fine.
OK, the adults are back in charge of the playground.
Well, this didn’t take long.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/19/us-shoot-down-syrian-jet-prompts-russian-threat.html
“Russian officials on Monday threatened that their country would treat U.S.-led coalition planes in some parts of Syria as targets after the U.S. military shot down a Syrian Air Force jet on Sunday.
Russia’s defense ministry said planes flying in Syria, west of the Euphrates River, would be considered targets.”
Leftist hand-wringing in 3… 2… 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.
Be interesting to see how they thread that needle.
MSNBC is ignoring it best they can. Not a peep on their site.
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…”
Russia you may want to rethink that threat. Just a suggestion.
Hopefully it was a gun kill.
No need to waste any ‘high end’ air-to-air missiles on an SU-22.
Get some, Navy!
US Navy, splashing SU-22’s since 1981.
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.
I’ll bet the engine was still winding down when slapped on the stencil.
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.
Is Vlad peeved yet, or is it just the Russian isvestia?
Old Soviet joke (plus my mangled Russian)
Nye Pravda Izvestia
Nye Izvestia Pravda
No News Truth. No Truth News.
Hondo’s poster.
Would that be “NewMath”?
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
We shoot down a Syrian aircraft in Syria that was attacking anti-Syrian rebels, and an ally of Syria who threatens to defend Syria is the bad guy.
I vote to get the flock out, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emdzsz_XvfA
And then it got weird.
https://www.rt.com/news/393021-iran-warns-isis-strike/
“Tehran has warned ISIS militants that any future attacks on the country will result in powerful strikes against the group. It comes after Iran launched missile strikes on ISIS in retaliation for twin attacks in Tehran earlier this month.”
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…)
Apparently, Iran has launched missiles into Syria. Was just on Fox News, and CNN has it online.
So we’re ISIS’s Air Force now?