Friday, December 15, 2017

American F-22 Raptor stealth fighters fire flares at Russian warplanes to drive them out of Syrian airspace controlled by the U.S-led coalition

UK Daily Mail 


The encounter lasted approximately 40 minutes before the Russian jets flew to the west side of the Euphrates

"A pair of US warplanes intercepted two Russia jets over a part of Syria they were not supposed to be operating in, according to the Pentagon. 

"At one point during Wednesday's incident, the American F-22 Raptor stealth fighters deployed chaff and flares to convince the Russian Su-25s to leave the area, and one US pilot had to 'aggressively maneuver' to avoid a midair collision. 

"The Russian fighters had flown into airspace controlled by the US-led coalition that is fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, crossing onto the east side of the Euphrates River near Albu Kamal." . . .

When Obama was Commander-in-Chief of what he referred to as "my military", our adversaries freely did this sort of thing:

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)


And Iranian boats could get away with this:  


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