Turkish jet shoots down Russian military plane

Wow Turkey. Now is not the time for this.

Seconded. Although, they gave fair warning X 10 like they are supposed to do. But I doubt Russia wants to go toe to toe with NATO right now.

But, way to poke the sleeping bear!

Both pilots dead, machine gunned in their parachutes.

What nice rebels we are helping.

This will be one those 'awwwww shit' days.

Well get the infidels fighting amongst themselves while the Turks are slowly getting friendlier with their brethren in the Islamic world.

This map, but no legend to go with it.

Blue line is the border between Turkey and Syria, I think.

IF the red line is the Russian flight path, and the Turks shot it down for that
teensy tiny little incursion.... that's pretty pathetic.

Russian's violeted their airspace. There is never not a time to defend yourself from illegal incursions.

It wasn't just this one incursion, Russia has been doing it since they started flying missions in Syria. Russia has been pushing Turkey day after day, and Turkey finally had enough of Russia invading their territory.

But yea, it's going to be an 'oh shit' day.

One pilot was shot and killed descending after ejecting the other possibly fell into Syrian Rebel hands and Turkey has called for an emergency meeting of NATO.

Brothers and sister can I get a Gog, Magog and Tel Megiddo from y'all



Thanos you're going to get your stars falling from the heavens.

And once again in that crazy part of the world, things take a turn....

The Russians killed NATO jets during the Cold War for 'teensy tiny little incursions'. Since Putin wants this shit started again I'm sure he knows that it's a two-way street. Besides, I sincerely doubt that the jet strayed into Turkish airspace since it was repeatedly warned away and it entered anyway. That's not an unusual Russian behavior to push and see how much they can get away with.

Now that Ivan knows the Turkish border will be enforced it's not likely to happen again anytime soon.

This is not the Cold War and incursions, even repeated ones don't necessitate a shoot down. Especially given that this incursion occurred while fighting a common enemy. It just wasn't necessary and is going to fracture an unsteady alliance.

Obama's Syrian 'rebel' buddies shot down the Russian rescue helicopter that was searching for the downed aircrew.

That's going to piss off Putin and the Russians far more that the shootdown of the fighter (which is being reported rather calmly on RT News).

This a resurgent Cold War and the old rules are back in play. Maybe you're not old enough to remember that crap but some of us around here and this all looks rather familiar.