Turkey shoots down fighter jet violating their airspace

[Crispin]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...der-with-syria

Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot down a war plane of unknown origin on Tuesday after it violated Turkish air space close to the Syrian border and ignored warnings, a Turkish military official told Reuters.

This is going to be interesting.

There's a video of the incident at this twitter account

https://twitter.com/HaberturkTV

[Mavett]

Russian Su-24

[Independent voter]

If it's true that Turkey shot down a fighter then it's probably Russian. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are upset with Russia cause Russia is killing Sunnis in Syria.

[Flutterguy]

Nothing will happen outside of some political bluster.

[Deleted]

Nothing will happen outside of some political bluster.

I don't know they are probably ready to get a bit nasty behind the scenes?

[Deleted]

Nothing will happen outside of some political bluster.

Yes, Putin will rage and the Russian news will tell that the F-16 was in Syrian air, and it back to normal, A few months later then
it emerges that the Russian air campaign did not destroyed IS, Putin will blame Turkey becuse the russian bombers have to fly around Turkey.

[Bakis]

Russia was really fast with acknowledging the plane was Russian.
Most likely they as well as everyone else just want to put and end to it right there, it was only one plane and there are far more important topics next week for both Russia/Syria and the western coalition that cant afford any distractions.

Noone will be interested in making a big fuzz out of this.

[Deleted]

Well considering that quite a lot of Su-24 use market GPS guidance kits.... but yeah, NATO should do this more often.
A lot more often. Like every time they breach our borders just by one meter.

[Acelius]

They have every right to do so.

[Deleted]

Apparently, Turkish forces made 10 warnings over 5 minutes, with no reaction from the Russian jet. Probably the Rus are testing NATO's red line.

Will be interesting how this ties into the debacle that is Turkish Stream.

[Deleted]

5 years later mysterious polonium poisoning of erdogan.

[Bakis]

5 years later mysterious polonium poisoning of erdogan.

That would be good news actually

[Deleted]

Plane went down in Syria. Russia claims they can prove they didn't violate Turkish airspace. If they are correct, the rabid morons around Erdogan should be kicked out of NATO.

[Azadina]

Apparently, Turkish forces made 10 warnings over 5 minutes, with no reaction from the Russian jet. Probably the Rus are testing NATO's red line.

Will be interesting how this ties into the debacle that is Turkish Stream.

Well, I think now Russia finally found out, what others might think of the airspace trolling they do. I'm sure they are going to reduce doing that.

[habitsbreaker]

a pilot was captured , lets hope the rebels serve him well

[Deleted]

a pilot was captured , lets hope the rebels serve him well

After this, things will turn south very quickly I'm afraid.. sad

[Deleted]

a pilot was captured , lets hope the rebels serve him well

You deserve a bit bacon in your lunch for that naughty habistbreaker

[Deleted]

a pilot was captured , lets hope the rebels serve him well

We have a terrorist supporter here it seems.

[Skroe]

Scratch one bogey.

F-16 gets another Russian-aircraft notch on it's considerable belt.

(Not updated)

F-16 Falcon 76-1-5
Gulf War (USA) 0-0-3
No-Fly Zones (USA) 2-0-0
Bosnia (USA) 4-0-1
Kosovo (USA) 1-0-1
Kosovo (Netherlands) 1-0-0
Kosovo (Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey) 0-0-0
Afghanistan (USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway) 0-0-0
Iraq (USA) 0-0-0
Syrian border clashes 1979-1986 (Israel) 6-0-0
Operation Opera (Israel) 0-0-0
Lebanon War (1982) (Israel) 44-0-0
Lebanon War (2006) (Israel) 3-0-0
Intifada (2000-present) (Israel) 0-0-0
Soviet-Afghan War (Pakistan) 10-0-0
Border clashes (Pakistan) 1-0-0
Kargil War (Pakistan) 0-0-0
Northwest border wars (Pakistan) 0-0-0
Aegean Sea clashes (Turkey) 1-1-0
Venezuelan Coup 1992 (Venezuela) 3-0-0


So now, 77 victories, not including all the Syrian aircraft shot down before today.

[habitsbreaker]

We have a terrorist supporter here it seems.

FSA are terrorists now ?