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An MQ-9 Reaper drone of the United States-led coalition dangerously approached a fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in Syrian airspace, Captain 1st Rank Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria said on September 17.
“A coalition’s MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance combat unmanned aerial vehicles dangerously approached a Su-35 plane of the Russian aerospace forces making a planned flight over Syria’s Homs governorate,” he said.
The Russian pilot demonstrated high professionalism and took timely measures to prevent a collision, the military official noted.
The U.S.-led coalition expanded its aerial operations over Syria last year, which led to unprecedented tensions with the Russian side.
In the last few months, several aerial encounters were reported by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria. None of the encounters caused losses.
The coalition’s operations in Syria, which are allegedly meant to contain ISIS remnants, are not authorized by the country’s government who consider the coalition to be an occupation force. On the other hand, the Russian military operates against ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria under an agreement with the government.
The U.S. attempts to expand its aerial operations over Syria will not likely lead to a confrontation with the Russian military. Nevertheless, this very dangerous behavior could eventually cause a serious incident in the country’s airspace.
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we already know england’s said in plain english that they’re going to be funding ukraine for 100 years. that’s a clue.
let’s hope the hibernating 🐻 wakes up before that
the more the merrier?
england is an ugly, obnoxious 10 cat woman in her late 40s nboody wants to fuck, thinking she is still in her prime and wondering where all the great men have gone. its called post imperial depression. ukraine wont exist in 10 years, let alone 100
that’s why he said about 100 years. he could speak any number, even 100 million years, and it will be true, but there is a small detail…
as though they’ll have money in 5 years.
funding with what? have you been to turd world pirate rock and looked at the machete wielding colonial apes running amok and whacking snaggle toothed impoverished brits in the last 10 years. pirate rock is done and seconds away from total implosion. z and more z!
as usual zero freedom of speech here.
just dump some fuel on the reaper and the propeller will fall off. called wonder weapons because you wonder why they cost so much
we amerikunts prefer mental illness homelessness desperate poverty fentanyl
why is syria not shooting down foreign military drones over their territory? can syrian military aircraft operate over us territory? what would happen if that was the case?
it’s amazing, really. my hope is that russia is wrapping up the ukraine war and is looking for some kind of peace treaty before focusing on idlib which has become the global terrorist capital of the world. but it seems misguided. i don’t think that the west will stop supporting its proxy war versus russia in ukraine. it will always find useful idiots and cannon fodder.
to dislodge americans would require direct confrontation. situation is fluid. that prospect has never been closer thanks to american’s direct involvement in ukraine-russia operation
yanks are moving out from iraq. it means moving out from syria too. turkey is unable to provide security in idlib, so there will be negotiations on this matter and turkey can move out too, though no big hope on that, because turks already annexed antiochia/antab/antakya from syria in 1970s and would be glad to repeat such move. but in common the situation can be normalized, because aggressor becomes weaker every year.
as you know russia is only country formally invited by host country in syria and is only foreign country there legally.
+ iran and “hezbollah”.
looks like something much bigger just happened inside russia today. “drone strike on arsenal triggers biggest explosion on russian soil of the war”… from zh comments section – “our malignant leaders are going to kill us all, yet there is no popular movement protesting it – it’s bonkers!”…
thats because we are preoccupied with gay stuff here in the waste! we love gay things more then anything!
that is true. when can we meet up so i can do your pooper?
it is high time to take out pentacon thugs and other natostan mercenary trash inside syria.
iraqi prime minister will soon announce the date when us forces will leave iraq. not long after that date us illegal occupation forces will also be kicked out of syria. there’s is also the possibility that trump will withdraw us forces earlier since there would be no point in dragging out the inevitable. assad defeated zionists. trump-vance2024. russia is our friend. they will not replace us. gwb delivered iraq & syria to iran on a silver platter.
syria and russia have every right to shoot down foreign objects violating syrian air space, so what’s stopping them?
direct confrontation versus nato (us & turkey)
shoot the thing down. its illegaly flying in syrian airspace ffs
russia should have killed that drone one less enemy eye in the sky. do what the houthies are doing their killing em left and right.
just take te fucker down.