Jihadists Downed L-39 Jet Over Syria’s Aleppo

Russian nightwitches, as Germans called them, also fought in old training aircraft.

And abandoned pilots. For nothing.

everyday SAA soilders on the ground are at risk. welcome to the front pilots!

This is no argue. I know something about military and tatctics. Such mentality is only vaste with menpower. I know, most of you never was soldier. It is easy create theories, the hard thing is the battlefield. For example, 1 month ago all of people on this forum lughed, when I told, should be the ratio of corps 3:1 in favour of attacker. They told, it is old conception. I did not discssed with people, who know nothing. But look at this vide fro, AMN. You will hear, the manpower ratio is 4:1 in favour for government forces.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-war-update-aleppo-december-4-2016-saa-and-allies-unstoppable/

This is the reason, why has the SAA momentum. Of course, also at manbij was and in Mosul is at least 10x more attackers then terrorists.

Back to the pilots. You should do such decision only if there is a last stand. But now in Aleppo thos is not the real situation. An i tell you, 1 albatros will never decrease the risk for ground forces.

again, in war you fight with what you have. if this was the only plane ready to do the job at that moment and SAA soilders where in trouble on the ground there might be no other option to take the risk, and its not like 100 planes were shot down. your paper work on war is a study, fact on the ground are different.

NO! only bloddy idiot do what you wrote.

let you enroll and go fight with knife! : ))) idiot :)))

le i said, you have to fight with what you have, it aint christmas!

NO! Pilots are more important then planes. SAA abandoned both. For nothing. SAA did not need use training planes. It was stupidity.

The L-39 is a very capable light attack aircraft. It’s agile, fast, and carries a lethal ordnance load. The pilots were brave men, and they were not abandoned by the SAA. This entire war is stupidity, and another product of the good old USA.

yes, we produced it and in OUR army was NEVER attack aircraft. it was produced ONLY for training purposes. you are stupid!

You are a foolish man who hides his ignorance behind insults.

If you do not understand the meaning of light attack aircraft you should learn to read.

Boyo, this pane was never concipated as light attack. You and some idiot in SAAF can tell, that it will be attack plane, but in reality never will be. You can tall, that renault megane is light infantry vehicle. and you can use it in that way. the result will be the same. discussion over.

sólyomszem you talk too much….. And you are wrong!!!!

from wikipedia: L-39ZA Significantly upgraded L-39ZO for armed training and light attack, employing sturdier landing gear, a higher payload (total 1,290 kg (2,844 lb)) and notably provision for a GSh-23L 23-millimeter twin-barreled cannon attached in a conformal pod under the pilots’ compartment, having a 150-round magazine within the airframe. Outer pylons wired to carry K-13 or R-60 air-to-air missiles. Two prototypes, with first flying on 29 September 1976. 208 aircraft delivered.

The Syrian Arab Air Force has operated a number of armed L-39ZA light attack variants.[50] Since the early stages of the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Air Force’s L-39 aircraft have been routinely deployed in counter-insurgency operations against various rebel ground forces, a number of these aircraft have also been shot down by ground fire. They were first used operationally during the Battle of Aleppo, launching several strikes upon rebel-held positions.[51][52][53] It has been claimed the L-39 was the first fixed-wing aircraft to be employed against the rebels.[54]

In February 2013, insurgents successfully captured a number of intact L-39s, along with their support equipment, after raiding and later taking over the Al-Jarrah airbase.[55][56] In late 2013, reports emerged of claims by Islamist fighters that they had successfully flown two of the captured L-39s.[57][58] In October 2014, the Syrian Government claimed that at least two rebel-held L-39s had been airworthy and had recently been destroyed by Syrian Air Force aircraft.[59]

According to Reuters, by 2014 the L-39 had allegedly become one of the favoured platforms of the Syrian Air Force for performing ground attack missions due to its slower speed and higher agility over other aircraft in its inventory; the L-39 was also being supplemented by deliveries of the newer Russian-built Yakovlev Yak-130.[60][61] In December 2015, following the securing of the Kweiris airbase by government forces, the resumption of ground-attack missions by L-39s in the vicinity of Aleppo commenced shortly thereafter.[54]

SO… sólyomszem shut the F.U.

So, tell me, does the sun rise in the east ?