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The General Staff of the Aerospace Forces confirmed that Israeli F-16s were indeed hiding behind the Il-20

Objective control documents confirm that Israeli Air Force aircraft were covered by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which was shot down by Syrian air defense. An officer of the Main Staff of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel Sergei Paramonov, spoke about this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, answering the question why the Il-20 was not covered by our fighters. “Israeli F-16s were really “hiding” behind our Il-20. This is not a fairy tale. We have documents of objective control, and...

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Ukraine accused Russia of destroying Il-20

In Ukraine, it is believed that the Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft, shot down recently by Syrian air defense after a provocation by the Israeli Air Force, was destroyed by Russian specialists. The director of the Ukrainian Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Igor Semivolos, stated this on the ATR TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, a Russian specialist who launched the missile could have been at the control panel of the Syrian air defense. "We are still...

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It became known how the Israelis managed to hide behind a Russian plane

The Israeli pilots used a clever trick that temporarily made the Jewish planes invisible to Syrian radars. Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Khaustov, deputy commander of an anti-aircraft missile regiment and participant in combat operations in Syria, spoke about this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, answering the question of what could have caused the error of the Syrian air defense that shot down the Russian Il-20 on September 17. “There is such a cunning trick in aviation -...

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Russia lost plane during Israeli strike

On the evening of September 17, at about 23-00 Moscow time, 35 kilometers from the coast of Syria, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft with 14 servicemen on board disappeared from the radar. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is clarified that communication with the pilots was lost during an attack by four Israeli F-16 aircraft in the Syrian province of Latakia. Also Russian radar equipment...

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