The Israeli Air Force’s leading conjecture on the F-16 plane that was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on Saturday morning is that Syrian forces used a Russian made S-200 (Vega) medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile to intercept the Israeli aircraft.
Missile trails were seen in the central region of the country in the early hours of Saturday morning. It is possible that some Syrian S-200 missiles fired in the barrage failed to lock onto the jet and flew off course, though there were no reports of any such missile falling in the region.
About two weeks ago, pro-regime Syrian armed forces threatened to strike Ben Gurion Airport in response to an attack on their soil they attributed to Israel.
According to IAF Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar, pilots of the downed warplane did not have time to report the incident on the communications network before they bailed, as the missiles locked on and closed distance with the aircraft too quickly for them to do so.
The mission, in any case, was a “complete operational success,” Bar noted, calling the large scale attack on Syrian aerial defense systems and Iranian targets in Syria “surgical” and emphasizing it was “the most extensive defense operation we have carried out against Syrian armed forces since Operation Peace for Galilee (1982 Lebanon War)”—the last time an Israeli plane was shot down.
Though he did not reveal what exactly were the targets the IAF attacked, he did note that Iran is working to implement surveillance systems in Syria against Israel.
“There’s some contention between the desire to fulfill the mission and the matter of survivability. We will investigate what happened, but the teams’ performance should be commended,” said Bar, adding that the pilots successfully managed to fly the plane into Israeli territory before having to abandon it, and did so without risking civilian life.
Bar added that at no point was Russia involved in the operation and following interception.
“We informed the Russians about our activities, but I will not say at what stage of the operation,” he said.
5 thoughts on “Israeli warplane downed by Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles”
More of that until they implode please
reading the jew mind, couple of haaretz headlines: Israel Struggles to Draw New Red Lines in Russia’s Syria Playground
Israel-Syria-Iran Flare-up: With Newfound Confidence, Assad Moves From Threats to Action
right, when the long-suffering victim finally stands up to bully, what does he do? redraw the “red lines” accordingly, begging the question: what good are the red lines if you are unwilling to follow up on them?
this confirms my long standing belief that all the jew talk of “mad dog israel”, “samson option”, is just so much bloviating bullshit, just like their messianic armageddon end of days eschatology-scatology because jew values every square millimeter of his skin with exceeding tenderness, also known as yellow-bellied funk.
jew is very brave when manufacturing genocides of gentiles, so long as he poses on cheerleading sidelines with his holocaustian pompoms, waving menorahs of “jew suffering”, in between the carpetbagging forays.
i am happy to see at the long last, the days when there are gentiles smart and brave enough to call his bluff.
never yield a fraction of an inch to jew, offer not an iota of compromise, let alone apology because this only moves his goalposts forward and in this way you will earn his grudging respect.
because he knows no shame of violating purity and innocence, no pity or guilt that he endlessly preaches to us, knowing that it is his biggest advantage in the millennial stealth war on our kind.
The proxies have failed so Israel and US have to enter the war directly. This will tear the blinkers off of the war and let the world see what is truly happening.
It is going to get messy.
Remember that US has to pretend a posture of dominance and Israel will always produce the ‘Samson’ option.
Hope that the Deep State war inside the US and the corruption war on Nettyahoo takes their mind from Syria but be prepared for ‘all-out’ genocide of the Syrians if Deep State and Nutty get their way.
I hope that Russia will avenge any attack on their troops or assets with overwhelming destruction, but we must understand that Russia must not give the US any provocation to justify an attack on the Russian homeland.
At least one good news for Sunday 🙂
Waiting for more 🙂
Jerzy
More of that until they implode please
reading the jew mind, couple of haaretz headlines:
Israel Struggles to Draw New Red Lines in Russia’s Syria Playground
Israel-Syria-Iran Flare-up: With Newfound Confidence, Assad Moves From Threats to Action
right, when the long-suffering victim finally stands up to bully, what does he do? redraw the “red lines” accordingly, begging the question: what good are the red lines if you are unwilling to follow up on them?
this confirms my long standing belief that all the jew talk of “mad dog israel”, “samson option”, is just so much bloviating bullshit, just like their messianic armageddon end of days eschatology-scatology because jew values every square millimeter of his skin with exceeding tenderness, also known as yellow-bellied funk.
jew is very brave when manufacturing genocides of gentiles, so long as he poses on cheerleading sidelines with his holocaustian pompoms, waving menorahs of “jew suffering”, in between the carpetbagging forays.
i am happy to see at the long last, the days when there are gentiles smart and brave enough to call his bluff.
never yield a fraction of an inch to jew, offer not an iota of compromise, let alone apology because this only moves his goalposts forward and in this way you will earn his grudging respect.
because he knows no shame of violating purity and innocence, no pity or guilt that he endlessly preaches to us, knowing that it is his biggest advantage in the millennial stealth war on our kind.
The proxies have failed so Israel and US have to enter the war directly. This will tear the blinkers off of the war and let the world see what is truly happening.
It is going to get messy.
Remember that US has to pretend a posture of dominance and Israel will always produce the ‘Samson’ option.
Hope that the Deep State war inside the US and the corruption war on Nettyahoo takes their mind from Syria but be prepared for ‘all-out’ genocide of the Syrians if Deep State and Nutty get their way.
I hope that Russia will avenge any attack on their troops or assets with overwhelming destruction, but we must understand that Russia must not give the US any provocation to justify an attack on the Russian homeland.
At least one good news for Sunday 🙂
Waiting for more 🙂
Jerzy
Very Good Syria and Iran! Very Good!