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US Shoots Down Another Drone today
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:23 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:23 am
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An F-15E Strike Eagle on Tuesday shot down an armed drone belonging to the Syrian regime that was advancing on coalition forces in the southern part of the country, U.S. Central Command said.
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The move comes days after an F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down an Su-22 Fitter fighter-bomber over Syria, which marked the U.S. military's first air-to-air kill involving manned aircraft in nearly two decades.
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Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:24 am to Spaceman Spiff
Awesome. Time to go to war in the middle east.
All the other wars in that region seemed to help. I'm sure this one will too.
All the other wars in that region seemed to help. I'm sure this one will too.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:24 am to Spaceman Spiff
Let's see if Putin has anything g to say about this one.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:26 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Syrian
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drone
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:27 am to Spaceman Spiff
'Murica
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:53 am to Spaceman Spiff
War baws, its acomin
Gotta get them oil prices back up
Gotta get them oil prices back up
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 11:03 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:00 am to Bluefin
It was an Iranian built Shahed 129.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:39 pm to Spaceman Spiff
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The move comes days after an F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down an Su-22 Fitter fighter-bomber over Syria, which marked the U.S. military's first air-to-air kill involving manned aircraft in nearly two decades.
We didn't have to shoot down even 1 manned aircraft during Iraq?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:59 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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We didn't have to shoot down even 1 manned aircraft during Iraq?
There last air victories there were in DS1. Saddam removed his planes because he knew what would happen.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:00 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Syria has drones?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:03 pm to Breesus
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Awesome. Time to go to war in the middle east.
All the other wars in that region seemed to help. I'm sure this one will too.
Agreed
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:12 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Didn't happen
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:32 pm to J Murdah
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Syria has drones?
These were Iranian Army ones
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:37 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Did we sell them these drones? If not, then we should.
And then put an off switch or bettwr yet a "turn and shoot Rajmapaj in the face" code
And then put an off switch or bettwr yet a "turn and shoot Rajmapaj in the face" code
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:07 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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We didn't have to shoot down even 1 manned aircraft during Iraq?
Syria conflict: Why are air combat kills so rare?
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A report published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in 2015 found just 59 kills since the 1990s - the large majority of which were in the First Gulf War.
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"After the totally lopsided kill-to-loss ratio attained by the US Air Force and US Navy during the First Gulf War, it is a very rare thing for regimes under attack by the US and its allies to send fighters up in defence - since they know how it will end."
In that war in early 1991, Iraq lost 33 planes to coalition forces in air-to-air combat. In return, its planes shot down just one coalition F-18, according to the CSBA database.
That lesson led many countries to abandon competition with the US and its allies.
"Even in the latter stages of the First Gulf War, many Iraqi pilots chose to fly their aircraft to Iran to escape certain destruction - no light decision, soon after the brutal Iran-Iraq war," Bronk says.
During the Second Gulf War, Saddam Hussein "had most of his remaining air force buried underground to escape destruction rather than send fighters up".
And when Nato intervened in Libya in 2011 to aid the rebellion against Col Muammar Gaddafi, the country's air force did nothing to defend its airspace.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:11 pm to Spaceman Spiff
My fondest wish is that the US and the rest of the world would pull back, set a perimeter, and let the entire middle east destroy itself.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:25 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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rest of the world would pull back, set a perimeter, and let the entire middle east destroy itself.
Israel would be gone in the blink of an eye. They have a large military relative to size of country and the best weaponry but they'd be target #1 for all the muslims.
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:29 pm to Spaceman Spiff
We need to invent a war to get the oil prices back up Baw
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:30 pm to Saskwatch
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Israel would be gone in the blink of an eye.
I'm fine with that.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 2:36 pm to Green Chili Tiger
Must be a liberal
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