Russians make closest contact to date with U.S. war planes over Syria

[A.Muqeet khan]

Russians make closest contact to date with U.S. war planes over Syria - CBS News

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

QATAR -- Russian aircraft had their closest run-in yet with American war planes over Syria. The yellow aircraft are Russian, the green are American.

This graphic shows radar tracking of Russians coming close to U.S. planes

U.S. pilots flying F-16s out of Turkey first picked up the Russian planes on radar. The Russians closed to within 20 miles, at which point the American pilots could visually identify them on their targeting cameras.

Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, commander of the American air campaign, said the Russians have come even closer than that to his unmanned drones.

"The closest has been within a handful of miles of our remotely piloted aircraft," said Brown. "But to our manned aircraft they've not been closer than about 20 miles."

Brown said he intends to simply work around the Russians in Syria, and he doesn't think they will crowd out American operations.

"We're up a lot more often than [the Russians] are so when we do have to move around [them] for safe operation, it's for a small period of time compared to the hours and hours that we're airborne over Iraq and Syria," said Brown.

Despite the Russians, Gen. Brown said he plans to increase strikes against ISIS sanctuaries in Syria. Many of those missions will be flown by the crews of B-1 bombers who now must avoid run-ins with the Russians.

 

[ultron]

Meh. Americans hardly have any planes over Syria. We get it. They don't want to bomb ISIS. Then get the F out and let Russians handle it.

 

[Providence]

Meh. Americans hardly have any planes over Syria. We get it. They don't want to bomb ISIS. Then get the F out and let Russians handle it.

Now russia is suddenly a messiah to you

Get the fcuk out of my country first !

 

[Barmaley]

Russians make closest contact to date with U.S. war planes over Syria - CBS News

Please, stop bringing here American propaganda.
Americans desperately trying to prove that they aren't totally useless in Syria.

 

[Oldman1]

Please, stop bringing here American propaganda.
Americans desperately trying to prove that they aren't totally useless in Syria.

I'm already counting down the hours since the claims that Russia can wipe out the ISIS in a matter of hours.

 

[Strigon]

Now russia is suddenly a messiah to you

Get the fcuk out of my country first !

Reminds me of this,

Anyone killing IS, the universal villain, is a messiah.

 

[Malik Alashter]

Now russia is suddenly a messiah to you

Get the fcuk out of my country first !

Looool ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I thought he is canadian.

 

[Project 4202]

To much butthurt around here