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Syrian army shoots down jets operated by ISIL
2014-10-23
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian government has admitted that the ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
murderous Moslems have conducted flights by three captured planes belonging to the Syrian army.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said the country's forces managed to shoot down two of the three after they made trial flights over the northwestern city of Aleppo on Tuesday.

"Regarding... that bully boyz control three jets in al- Jarrah military air base in Aleppo, there are three old aircraft that the bully boyz were testing so the Syrian Arab Army immediately destroyed two of them on the runway as they were landing," Zoubi said.

He noted that the Syrian government is not worried about the third plane as it "cannot be used" by the myrmidons.

The information minister added that the plane might be a pretext for the Turkish government to work for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Syria.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that the ISIL was preparing pilots trained under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for future Arclight airstrikes against Syria.

Reports by Syrian opposition media said that the murderous Moslems targeted two MiG 23 fighter jets in Aleppo's Neirab military airbase.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
Syrian army forces continued making advances against Takfiris in the south by launching a vast operation against murderous Moslems of the al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Target practice it is.
Posted by: Sninerong Hupinemble5552   2014-10-23 11:35  

#2  During WW2 many of the German jets were taken out that way. Low, slow and throttled back (older jet engines especially can't be slammed to full throttle without stalling the engine). Sitting duck mode. Prop planes could take them out in that situation.
Posted by: tipover   2014-10-23 11:11  

#1  Attacking whilst your enemy is landing - minimal power, minimum speed, minimal options - pretty clever, those Syrians!
Posted by: Bobby   2014-10-23 07:40