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On April 19, the United States Air Forces Central (AFCENT) released two declassified videos showing fully-armed Su-35 fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces flying over coalition bases in Syria.
“Armed Russian fighter aircraft” have directly flown over the U.S.-led coalition bases in Syria at least 26 times between March 1 to April 19 of this year, according to accompanying data released by AFCENT.
The command added that there had been 63 “violations” since March of deconfliction protocols between U.S. and Russian forces that were put into place just in 2019.
“Over the course of my career I have not seen this kind of disregard for agreed upon protocols and deconfliction rules,” AFECNT commander Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich said in a statement. “It’s concerning because it increases the risk of miscalculation, and given incidents like the MQ-9 intercept and subsequent downing over the Black Sea, it’s not the kind of behavior I’d expect out of a professional Air Force.”
According to AFCENT, one of the most recent Russian sorties happened on April 15 over a key garrison in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf.
“We’ve seen Russian aircraft come within 500 feet of our aircraft,” said Lt. Gen. Grynkewich. “As a professional air force, we will do everything in our power to ensure we maintain safety of flight and engage according to our special instructions. However, if any entity threatens the safety and security of coalition forces in the sky or on the ground, we will take swift action to address the threat.”
Tensions between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria have been growing since Moscow launched a special military operation in Ukraine last year.
The Russian military has been present in the country since 2015 to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad against ISIS and other terrorist groups.
Threats posed to the Russian military group in Syria increased. A recently leaked U.S. intelligence document revealed a plot by Ukrainian intelligence to attack Russian bases in the western and central region of the country with help from a U.S. proxy group, the Kurdish-led Syrian democratic Forces.
The repeated Russian armed patrols over the U.S.-led coalition bases in Syria appear to be more of a defensive measure.
The Russian military is likely willing to take even more drastic measures to protect its troops in the war-torn country. Last November, a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system fired on a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper combat drone that approached a key government-held airport in the northeastern region.
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Coalition airspace ? It’s Syrian airspace , you clowns . Don’t like it ? Get the fuck out !
Exactly what I was thinking…
You were sinking.
and you are stinking.
That pretty well sums it up.
The arrogance of Team America is truly breathtaking – roll uninvited into SOMEONE ELSE”S COUNTRY and set up military bases all over the joint…
… and then claim that LEGITIMATE parties are violating “their’ air space!
Although just wishful thinking, it would be entirely justified for someone – ANYONE – to just wipe all these American installations and all their Gestapo stooges off the Syrian map. No prior warning or explanation necessary – those bastards are literally just BEGGING for it.
It’s high time, long overdue, for the schoolyard bully to get his head ripped off.
What coalition? A coalition of invaders from the USA and Israel?
Americunts think, that they own the airspace everywhere they happen to go.
This is amateurish and unprofessional, and against all rules of war and good military behaviour. Shame on Russia from the axis of evilness.
You are a funny troll.
There is another propaganda video regarding Baltic sea. Of the three Su-35s, the video actually shows 2 Su-24 fighter-bombers and 1 Su-35 on the HUD. Further, from the opposite side in one shot there are 2x F-18s with 1x Mirage-2000 and in the next four F-18s. If it was to be balanced against the Su-35, they would need to have the four Hornets there. Even the swarm of four would not be enough for two Su-35s. In pairs, the Russians use quite different tactics, and especially the Irbis-M radar is brutal.
Who do those Russians think they are! Going to other peoples countries with their military equpiment and flying their planes over our military bases. We have better lodge a complaint to the U.N.
US and “allied” bases in Syria, are there illegally…..
they’re clearly warning the world wide illegal US occupier, that their patience in Ukraine is waining, and that they might destroy all of the US bases into oblivion and kill all of it’s terrorist outlandish(not from syria-combatants-thatarethereillegally” removing them entirely from the lands of syria, as the US/NATO are screaming RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA over ukraine, as they do exactly the same thing, but to others themselves like syria, and Iraq who voted to kick all foreign forces out from it’s country, and the US refuses to do so, the amount of hypocrisy is brutal, i have never seen this level of lies and hypocrisy ever before in my whole life, very typical of colonial thinking, but now on steroids.
Russia CANNOT VIOLATE COALITION AIRSPACE as the so called NAZI COALITION is in SYRIA ILLEGALLY so NAZI USA you should count yourselves lucky Russia has not bombed your arse to the stone age. =Z=
So why are the Russian Aerospace fighters simply buzzing them and not bombing the shit out of them given the illegal occupation since 2012?… That spawned the “wrecking ball” for the Eastern Donbass just 2 years later with the “Project for a New American Century’s” wife handing out cookies in Maidan???..
Oh… Almost FORGOT their “boot licking” of I$rael that also indiscriminately bombs Syria and tells Russia when and where to turn off it’s SA missile batteries on demand!…
Joseph Heller of “Catch-22” fame couldn’t have written a better sequel in our post-9/11 21st Century Apocalypse controlled by the Central Bank(s) North… South… East… and West!…
Those flights remind the arrogant US scumbags that they are not so bulletproof as they might think.
The US will soon leave Syria. The Kurds are in negotiations with Damascus to hand over SDF held areas back to Assad as he is already being legitimized by the International community except Israel and its US puppets. The treasonous Israel-first AIPAC slaves in the government, in the intel and in the military must be having a nervous breakdown, they getting kicked out of the Middle East and will no longer be able to fight Israel’s proxy wars. Bashar Hafez al-Assad defeated Zionists.
Lol, these US and Natostan idiots think they were invited to this party. Common criminals stealing and murdering.
Russia has been invited by the legitimate government of Syria to fight US backed terrorists. The US is there illegally. I am ashamed that people in my country allow the cabal of psychos that murdered JFK to continue spreading “freedom and democracy” throughout the world.
Nothing to see here……
“coalition airspace” What bullshit, the US is an invader, not an owner of Syrian airspace. The Russians have every right to overfly all parts of Syria.