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Old 18th Sep 2018, 19:44
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Originally Posted by The AvgasDinosaur
Perhaps the Israelies got sick of Ivan tipping off the Syrians about targets and finding the target has moved or defences have been alerted or even enhanced and chose to shorten the warning time?
i wonder if the IDF/AF hit their target in spite of an Ilyushin possibly running interference?
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David
It was also a similar S-200 (SA-5) system that downed an Israeli F-16I not so long time ago.
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