Syrian Air Defense units shot down a US spy drone that was caught flying over Syrian airspace last week.
According to newspaper Vestnik Mordovieh, military experts confirmed that they sucessfully intercepted a Predator reconnaissance US drone by firing a Russian missile at it as it flew over the coastal province of Lattakia.
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Farsnews.com reports:
Based on the paper, the drone that violated Syria’s airspace was, MQ-1 Predator, an American remotely piloted aircraft built by General Atomics.
The US army officials have also confirmed that they have lost connection with the drone, the paper added.
Meantime, the Turkish media reported that the US drone took off from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase.
The paper added that the US spying drone was downed by the Russian-made Pechora 2 Surface-to-Air Missile systems, adding that parts of the downed US drone are scattered all over the region.
Media sources disclosed in January that a US Navy reconnaissance plane was spotted flying a few kilometers away from Russia’s naval base in Tartus port in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Interfax quoted western sites as saying that a P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew close to Syria’s Mediterranean coast where Russia’s naval task force operates in Tartus.
The anti-submarine US P-8A Poseidon spy plane left a US airbase in Sicily and carried out a reconnaissance mission over the Russian naval base and its adjacent marine zone in Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Interfax added.
Observers believe that the US spy planes have recently increased their flights over Syria to gather intelligence on the Syrian army and the Russian forces’ moves in the region.
According to reports, on August 30, September 2, September 17 and in November the United States’ P-8A Poseidon spy planes were also spotted flying toward the vicinity of the Russian airbase.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Well done Russia… now shoot down some real planes and ships,,… lets get this ww3 show on the road……ffs
Don’t ask for this war because in this war Europe will be the graveyard of the world and every country will be a part of this war, there will be a great vacancy on the planet and America will be destroyed, her military will be desamated never to rise up again.
I hope it is true
Turns out the drone belonged to the Turkish Air Force. Also, this is an older
model being phased out, everyone who wanted it, has had this technology for years.
We can’t keep any technology secret for long.