Intelligence blackout on Syria prevented Turkish retaliation for downed jet, Russian paper says

Illustrative photo of a Turkish F-4 fighter jet. (photo credit: CC BY Jerry Gunner, Flickr)

Turkey prepared to retaliate against Syria for shooting down its fighter jet in June, but aborted its plans when the military’s general staff realized they knew little about Syrian air defense systems, a report published in Russian news outlet Izvestia claimed.

Had Turkey attempted an airstrike on Syria, Assad’s Russian-made air defense systems would have shot down Turkish jets like “ducks,” the paper quoted Igor Korotchenko of the The Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade saying.

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