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An MQ-9 Reaper combat drone of the United States-led coalition dangerously approached a fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in Syria’s airspace, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria -a division of the Russian defense ministry-, announced.
“Between 10:24 a.m. and 10:29 a.m. on June 27, the coalition’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle made a dangerous approach to the Su-35 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces above the settlement of al-Suhne in the Homs governorate, at an altitude of from 7,000 to 8,000 meters,” Major General Yury Popov said in a briefing, adding that “the Russian plane was performing a scheduled flight in Syrian airspace” at the time of the incident.
The Russian pilot demonstrated high professionalism and took timely measures to prevent a collision, the military official noted.
Video footage of the dangerous encounter surfaced online on June 27. In the footage, the U.S.-led coalition drone appears to be fully-armed.
The incident took place just a day after an MQ-1C Grey Eagle of the coalition was reportedly shot down over U.S.-controlled areas in the eastern governorate of Deir Ezzor.
Some Syrian sources alleged that the drone was downed by Syrian air defenses, while others said that it was targeted by Iraqi armed factions in response to a drone strike a week earlier that killed an Iraqi fighter. The U.S. Central Command has not addressed the incident yet.
It is worth noting that this was the second time a U.S. drone flew dangerously close to a VKS warplane over Syria in less than a week. The first encounter was reported by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria on June 24.
The U.S.-led coalition expanded its aerial operations over Syria last year which created unprecedented tensions with the Russian side.
While this unprofessional behavior will not likely lead to a confrontation with the Russian military group in Syria, it could eventually cause a serious incident in the country’s airspace.
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now, of course, one can ask the question, was the drone on the course of the aircraft or was the aircraft on the course of the drone?
since the aircraft has the much more effective maneuverability, the latter seems more realistic!
doesn’t matter technically as the drone is inside a foreign airspace in which the internationally recognized government has not granted then permission. in such an instance the russian aircraft has a known flight plan and this drone was flying illegally across its flight path.
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‘while this unprofessional (= deliberately provocative) behavior will not likely (= definitely not) lead to a confrontation with the [us/zio-compliant] russian military group in syria, it could eventually (= will inevitably) cause a [carefully orchestrated] serious incident in the country’s airspace.’
i will advice russia twice.
1st go to the un, call security council and start crying as 3 years old baby. it will vastly improve the image of russia as a superpower. or
2nd use some 4th grade missile made in iran and shot that damned thing down as houthis in yemen do.
p.s: as i know putin, he will pick no 1 option as he is – idiot.
guess you are mistaking president putin for the demented leader of the us. remind me, how did that debate go, with an ex-president, that the current one wants to lock up?
now that is just stupid. the jet passes the drone and you say the drone came too close.
your proganda is getting more stupid. just like russia for not just shooting the thing down.
russians are retards.
the drone may have intentionally gotten into su 35s flight path, ever think of that?
lol. yea, right. it chased him down, got in front and hit the brakes. lol
russians have been retarded about a lot of things… chief among them leaving the un after the coup in ukraine in 2014 that ousted them from the g”8″… spending 7 years doing nothing to oust nato from the eastern donbass… crying about their money being frozen and than stolen by the western cbs when they should have vacated their international business interests with them that should have focused exclusively on the briics after maidan 2014!
really? is that why the us needs russian space engines to get into space? is that why a lot of the territory of ukraine has returned to russia? is that why ukraine has lost their gene pool? is that why russia, part of the global majority, is happily taking out the $us? is that why russia has hypersonics, in active service, which no nato member has? is that why russia has more n. warheads than all of the nato members combined?
2) is that why russia has the world’s best air defence system, that nato cannot penetrate? is that why president putin can hold 4 hour press conferences, with at least 1500 international and national journalists, whilst the leader of the us has to be walked off stage and told he has done a good job, when he cannot remember what he was saying? nafo must be desperate for recruits, if you are the best they can come up with.
500,000 dead ukrainians are already in the cemeteries in ukraine, fighting under duress at gunpoint by the pig in kiev. : go fight against the russians in syria big tough guy. maybe you think you’re a better soldier than the russians?
napoleon thought so too, so did shitler.
why does sf waste the space on their pages given how long we’ve had drones in the air since the reign of tranny obama. shoot them all down and the bases that operate them!
plz, unless that junk is being exploded, do we need a video of near misses and nothing burgers? this a war porn addiction center…make sure your dope is pure before you post it….
shoot them down. they are illegally in syrian airspace
aby k takýmto incidentom neprichádzalo, tak je potrebné okupačné vojská usa vyhnať zo sýrie!!! svetu mier!!!
if only the jet that found the reaper drone was syrian mig29 instead of ru su35 then reaper would been destroyed on sight
drone more personality than amerikan–burger more brains than me
easy pickins, take em out
putin is too coward to allow his troops to bring down the illegal united snakes of aipac, usa shitbucket…. because he will have to answer to his god , chickenshit satanyahoo
why do you believe that president putin is a coward, when he is not in a rush to kickstart a thermo-nuclear war that will take out the planet? more than one way to skin a cat and russia are very adept at skinning the cat known as the west.
if russian fighters are overflying syria and they encounter american/israeli uavs, why don’t they just shoot them down on sight?
seems strange that they’d not use the opportunity to fuck up the jewmerican bird. however with freemason putin refusing to defend syrian sky nothing new , the rodent just keeps on slaving to his judeo-masonic masters.
remind me, what did president assad say about russia, just a few years ago? was it ‘without the help of russia, there would be no syria’ or words to that affect?
russia are legally in syria, unlike the us. what happens should russia take out their drones? bearing in mind the us have no reason to be in the area?