"Inside Russia’s Mission to Rescue Its Pilots" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Nov 2015 12:25 p.m. PST |
"Recently, we saw that happen when a Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24M "Fencer" was shot down after allegedly violating Turkey's sovereign airspace. The downed aircraft, and a wingman, were inside Turkey for a grand total of 17 seconds while flying from east to west at an altitude of 19,000 feet. The aircraft were less than two miles inside Turkey's southernmost border as they passed through, and while one aircraft veered back to the south, one was engaged by two Block 50 F-16Cs of the Turkish Air Force. Once the Fencer was stricken and no longer able to fly, both pilots inside ejected, and thus began the Russian Air Force's attempt to locate and extract their downed airmen…"
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| dwight shrute | 26 Nov 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
22mm Cannon ??? Nice to know who the experts are ! :-( |
| Jcfrog | 26 Nov 2015 1:20 p.m. PST |
Old cannons, lots of windage. |
| Mako11 | 26 Nov 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
Did we get a definitive report on whether the Su was downed by an AAM, or a SAM yet? |
 Legion 4   | 26 Nov 2015 7:02 p.m. PST |
Well glad at least one made it back. Too bad one was KIA'd along with a Russian Marine … |
| LORDGHEE | 26 Nov 2015 11:09 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 27 Nov 2015 9:33 a.m. PST |
Yes, I understood it was an Air2Air missile that shot down the SU-24 … |
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tries out the expansion roads set.