Photo Credit: MC3 Casey J. Hopkins/Navy
More details appeared about the incident with the Syrian Su-22 plane that was downed Sunday by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet in the area south of Tabqah in the province of Raqqah.
Accordng to the Syrian media, the F/A-18 Super Hornet attacked the Su-22 despite the presence of Russian aircraft monitoring the situation in the area.
The Su-22 was reportedly downed just 15 minutes after it took off from the airfield, before the warplane was able to carry out any airstrikes.
The US warplane allegedly fired two missiles. The first missile missed the target. The second hit the Su-22 rear.
First time in apx 20 yrs the U.S. has shot down a warplane in air-to-air combat (Kosovo, 1999, U.S. F-15 Eagle shot down a Serbian MiG-29) https://t.co/mc59iCbA8U
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UPDATE: Pentagon says last air-to-air U.S. combat kill occurred during the 1991 Gulf War—1999 Kosovo mission destroyed jets on the ground https://t.co/Aq5AWvJ1xd
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