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Russian missiles ‘complicate’ Syria airstrikes

by Jeffrey Schogol Brown said that the U.S.-led coalition and Russia have a Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
Air Force Times memorandum of understanding that spells out how aircraft
from both sides should interact. This photo, made from footage taken from the Rus-
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group will continue despite Russia’s decision to send ad- “We have pretty good connectivity with the Russians,” 2015, shows Russian S-400 air defense missile
vanced S-400 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, said the Brown said. “With our MOU, there are things that are in systems along the runway at the Hemeimeem Air
commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command. there that talk about … how we’re not going to show hos- Base in Syria, about 30 miles south of the border
tile acts or hostile intent from the coalition toward the Rus- with Turkey.
“Yes, it does complicate things a little bit, and we’ll put sians or from the Russians toward the coalition.”
some thought to it, but we still have a job to do here, and “Any time we’re doing combat search and rescue
we’re going to continue to do that job – to defeat Daesh While the U.S.-led coalition and Russia are both op- in a combat zone, there is risk involved,” Brown said.
[the Islamic State group],” Lt. Gen. Charles Brown Jr. told erating in Syrian airspace, they are not coordinating or “We don’t take that lightly. We are very well trained …
Air Force Times on Wednesday. cooperating, Brown said. and our coordination between our personnel-recovery
assets and some of our strike assets that would be in
On Tuesday, a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian SU- “Our mission is to defeat Daesh,” Brown said. “The Rus- support — we work through those in some level of de-
24 that allegedly violated Turkish airspace. One of the sians have said they’re going to go after Daesh, but that’s tail. I can’t speak to the quality of the training of the
SU-24’s pilots and a Russian marine who was part of the not what we’re actually seeing as far as their strikes. The Russians when they do search and rescue.”
search-and-rescue mission were reportedly killed. Russian majority of their strikes are not against Daesh. Their [air-
and Syrian special operations forces reportedly rescued the strikes] are more anti-regime-type. Our communication
second Russian SU-24 pilot on Wednesday. with the Russians is more for safety of flight.”

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednes- Syrian rebels reportedly downed a Russian Mi-8 heli-
day that Russia would send S-400 missiles to its air base in copter that was taking part in search-and-rescue efforts for
Latakia, Syria, according to RT – official Russian media. the two downed SU-24 pilots. Video posted on YouTube
purportedly shows the rebels using a U.S.-made TOW mis-
“Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, Syria, accommodates sile to destroy the helicopter on the ground.
Russian Air Force squadrons of Su-27SM and Su-30
fighter jets, Su-34 and Su-24 tactical bombers, which are The U.S. has deployed about 300 Airmen in Diyar-
all taking part in airstrikes on Islamic State positions,” RT bakir Air Base, Turkey, to rescue any U.S. or coalition
reported on Wednesday. “The airbase is protected by state- pilots who have to eject over Iraq or Syria. Those airmen
of-the-art air defense systems and radars. Khmeimim also include the Guardian Angel Weapons System, which in-
has a fully operational unit for maintaining fixed- and rotor- cludes pararescue Airmen, combat rescue officers and
wing aircraft and providing logistical assistance to pilots.” survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, who
are experts at retrieving pilots or other isolated troops.

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