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2019-07-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria shoots down a Russian military plane.

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Posted by 3dc 2019-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Fog of war. I look forward to discovering what it was before it landed so badly.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-01 08:11|| 2019-07-01 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Cyprus? Do the Syrians have any directional abilities? S-200 range is 200KM (120 Miles). This would seem to be beyond its capabilities

Posted by Frank G 2019-07-01 12:11|| 2019-07-01 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Latakia is less than 100 miles from Cyprus, Frank.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-07-01 12:35|| 2019-07-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 OK, thanks

Posted by Frank G 2019-07-01 12:39|| 2019-07-01 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 An S-200 anti aircraft missile that targeted Israeli jets, exploded in mid air and it's bits fell over a 2 km radius, some 20km north of Nicosia, north Cyprus.

Cypriot PM Ersin Tatar has said nobody was injured in the pre-dawn explosion near the village of Tashkent. Maximum (effective) range for these missiles is 150-200 km. If it were fired off Latakia, Jableh, or any coastal point, a point within 2 km above the crash site would be within 210-230 km.

The 15 people were killed in a separate incident, an Israeli airstrike near Damascus and the central Homs province.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-01 13:02|| 2019-07-01 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 So in other words, there's no 'destruct' mechanism if a missile gets away from ground control and decides to take a scenic tour of the Mediterranean.

That or 'Ground Control' was too busy hightailing to another location and avoiding the morph into pieces of deceased organic material.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-07-01 14:36|| 2019-07-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

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