Out of interest, and irrespective of the 'who said what' bit, how exactly would the shooting down have happened?
Would the Turkish aircraft have 'locked on' (excuse my incorrect use of terminology) for a period of time, leaving the Russian in no doubt they were in the crosshairs and then let a missile loose ?
Would a Russian pilot in such a position simply ignore any warnings regarding said lock on, and once a missile were fired, what could he have dome ? One receiving warnings, would the Russian naturally have taken evasive action to try and get out of danger or would he have most likely tried to bluff it out ?
I am simply interested in the apparent ease (no dogfight mentioned) with which the F16 downed a Russian front line aircraft and does this tell us anything interesting about their relative capabilities ?