what did syria use to down this plane? range over 20 kms.

[aarf]

Syria ally Iran urges calm over downed Turkish jet
From correspondents in Tehran
AFP
June 24, 2012 6:48PM
IRAN urged Ankara and Damascus to show "restraint" over Syria's shooting down of a
Turkish fighter jet, Iranian state media reported today.
Tehran "asks both sides to show calm and restraint and hopes that with tact and tolerance and
dialogue, this issue will be evaluated and through a peaceful resolution, tranquility and stability
will be preserved in the region," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying.
Iran is the staunchest ally of Syria, which is embroiled in a 15-month conflict UN officials fear
has become a civil war.
Turkey, a NATO member, sits on the other side as a critic of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's
crackdown on the unrest.
A Syrian anti-aircraft battery near the Turkish border on Friday shot down a Turkish Phantom
warplane that Damascus said violated its airspace by flying in low and fast from the
Mediterranean.

Speaking in a live interview on Turkey's TRT Haber state news channel today, Turkey's foreign
minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the F4 fighter plane "was hit when it was a distance of 13 miles
(20.92 km) from the Syrian coast".
This puts the unarmed, training mission jet in international airspace.
Syria and Turkey said their navies were coordinating a search for the Phantom's two pilots.

The drone decimated pakistanis in tribal belt areas also keenly interested in knowing.

[Flash]

Probably one of the Hawk missiles we sold to Iran back in the Reagan administration. You remember, Iran-Contra.

[aarf]

Probably one of the Hawk missiles we sold to Iran back in the Reagan administration. You remember, Iran-Contra.

thanks flash. I didn't know this possiblity to shoot down advances war planes existed. very rarely read of it happening.

The missile was also produced outside the US in Western Europe , Japan and Iran.

one must also now fully conclude that turkeys bombing of the kurds in northern iraq on multiple occasions, while iraq was under american occupation, was done with full american approval (if not actual request) yes that's right, the americans used the killing of kurds by saddam as a supporting pretext to the american invasion.

I think these hawk missiles will be a little too expensive for the stone aged tribal pakistanis though.

[aarf]

the usual disproportionate response should see nato tomahawking all syrias anti-aircraft facillities. the only question remaining is if russia, iran, and china are going to stand by (once again) and let it happen. the usual criteria for evil to succeed.

obviously the price of oil has threatened to drop too low to sustain the oil funded armed aggression extortion racquet.

[Karl Godt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K31_Strela-1
Operators :
# Syria

There are actually several air defense missiles from the SU/Russia

And according to BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18568207# it was 1 mile off the shore .

Other " Strela " i found :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strela_%28 ... rrakete%29

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-7_Grail


But i guess a "full" NATO attack with all radio-radar-disturbance-operations would not leave Syria too many hits .

That where the days, Vietnam was capable to down some Western jets, but these days seem gone.

[dze]

Serbs put down invisible F117 in 1999 with sling probably they bomb us 74 days, weapons developed in late 13 years

[postfs1]

what did syria use to down this plane? range over 20 kms.
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Nonsense: something has happened around the bend in syria or maybe nothing.