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leveymg

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5. All Air units in the area have exchanged Friend or Foe transponder codes.

Reply to Waldorf (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 09:31 PM

Oct 2015

They are unlikely to shoot each other. More likely to collide, considering how crowded the airspace over Syria has become. There's an effort to make this seem like more of a US-Russia conflict than it actually is. The intended audience is the primary third-party, KSA, which the US and Russia would like to see cut funding to ISIS.

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Anybody else get an eerie feeling that an accident is just waiting to happen around Syria? [View all] Waldorf Oct 2015 OP

I got chills when I heard that this evening so, yes! nt dorkzilla Oct 2015 #1

I think Putin feels an incident will be to his advantage. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2015 #2

It is bound to happen and that nut case Putin may doc03 Oct 2015 #3

this thing is bigger than Syria now. Russia is ready to bomb inside Iraq GreatGazoo Oct 2015 #4

All Air units in the area have exchanged Friend or Foe transponder codes. leveymg Oct 2015 #5

And MSF reported the location of their hospital. (nt) jeff47 Oct 2015 #7

Not really Major Nikon Oct 2015 #6