A friend of mine (no, I will not say whom), has informed me that this has gotten worse.
1) Both aircrew ejected clean, then were captured and killed by Turkish backed Syrian rebels.
2) The Russian CSAR bird was fired on by a TOW. No word on if the chopper was hit or not.
In short, this smells like a deliberate ambush. I think the Turks knew the Russians used this route for egress from hitting targets deeper in Syria. The Turks had warned the Russians before, so they shot down the a/c, figuring the rebels would capture the aircrew and hold them for an appropriate ransom...
Then the idiots went and killed them...then fired on the CSAR chopper. Yeah, this is just getting better and better...eh? I suspect there will be an escort for all Russian strikes from now on...and there might be a dogfight between the Russians and the Turks not long after that. Where things go from there? Who the hell knows.
My advice though? Check your preps, and make damn sure they are close to hand...I got a bad feeling about this.
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