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I Will Send an Su-24 Fencer to Remind You of My Love

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“Sukhoi Su-24 inflight Mishin-2” by Alexander Mishin – Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.

Well, shit.

The Turkish military has reportedly shot down a Russian military aircraft on the border with Syria.

Russia’s defence ministry said an Su-24 had crashed on Syrian territory after being hit by fire from the ground.

But Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s had shot down the plane after repeatedly warning its two crew they were violating Turkish airspace.

The crew ejected before the jet crashed in Latakia province, but Syrian rebels said at least one was dead.

You kinda wish that the Turks would chill out just a touch, but then you kind of wish that the Russians would stop violating Turkish airspace (slipping in and out with some regularity) with their transponders off, while bombing Turkey’s friends in Syria.

Could get ugly. Stay tuned.

…Guardian live updates are pretty good.

…I should have a Bloggingheads up later today on the issue.

…How does an air intercept work?

…This has come up a couple times in comments; the Russian aircraft did not transit Turkey in order to carry out attacks. The Russians have had about three dozen fighter and attack aircraft in Syria since last month.

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