US F-22s Fire Warning Flares At Russian Su-25 Jets In Near Incident Over Syria

On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported an “Incident” had taken place involving a USAF F-22 over Syria which according to the Russians “actively prevented the Russian pair of Su-25 attack aircraft from carrying out a combat mission to destroy the Daesh stronghold in the suburbs of the city of Mayadin in the airspace over the western bank of the Euphrates River on November 23” with the The F-22 firing off heat flares and released brake shields with “permanent maneuvering, imitating an air battle” to which we said that in the apparent eagerness by the US to re-engage Russia, it is likely that more such near-incidents will take place.
Sure enough, on Thursday morning, a Pentagon official confirmed that a pair of U. S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters fired flares to chase two Russian Su-25 fighter jets out of restricted airspace over Syria on Wednesday.
U. S. OFFICIAL SAYS U. S. F-22 JETS FIRED WARNING FLARES ON WEDNESDAY AFTER RUSSIAN JETS ENTERED AGREED UPON “DECONFLICTION ZONE” OVER SYRIA

This post was published at Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden , Dec 14, 2017.