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2019-07-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria shoots down a Russian military plane.

Bilgi; Kıbrıs’ın kuzeyinde patlamanın olduğu sıralarda Rusya’ya ait bir askeri uçağın Suriye tarafından düşürüldüğü haberi var... İddialara göre uçak 15 kişi taşıyormuş... Yine Kıbrıs’taki olay yerinde bulunan bir parçanın üzerinde Rusça yazılar olduğu söyleniyor...
— Ali Kismir (@AliKismir) July 1, 2019

[Microsoft Translation: Information In the northern part of Cyprus, a military plane belonging to Russia has been dropped by Syria... According to allegations, the plane was carrying 15 people... It is said that there are Russian writings on a piece found at the scene in Cyprus...]

#UPDATE: Reported video of large fires and debris seen at location of crash site near Kibris in northern Cyprus pic.twitter.com/YuEDc7rNKl
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) July 1, 2019

Extremely toxic S-200 fired at Israelis misses and lands in N. Cyprus residential area. People are crawling over it.

Regarding the crash site in North #Cyprus
One of the objects I could ID is the remain of an S-200 missile launched from #Syria on the Israeli jets. pic.twitter.com/YR99G75sQ8
— Syrian Military Capabilities (@Syrian_MC) July 1, 2019

Posted by 3dc 2019-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 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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