The shooting down of the SU-25 with an “Amraam” missile



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Your weakness Armenian Air Force to address the claims against Turkey’s alliance with Azerbaijan demonstrated this morning by the alleged overthrow of an Armenian militant group Sukhoi -25 (SU-25) by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet, which, according to the Armenian Defense Ministry, was carried out within the country’s airspace.

The Turkish F-16 reportedly took off from the base. Gyanja from Azerbaijan and had penetrated 60 kilometers into Armenian airspace before the Su-25 crashed. According to the Armenian news agency ARMENPRESS Turkish fighter backs Azeri offensive near Artsakh, offering coverage in Turkish Bayraktar and Su-25 UAVs of the Azerbaijani Air Force, which also operated in the area.

According to the same sources, the Armenian fighter at the time of his downing was part of a formation that assisted the Armenian effort to stop the specific attack, while its pilot also lost his life.

In essence, the fighter plane Su-25 Grach It is a twin-engine combat aircraft developed in the Soviet Union. It is considered obsolete and unable to argue on equal terms with the newer and more advanced F-16s from western and therefore Turkish airports.

These jets lag behind the F-16s at all levels, even older versions of American jets, such as Block 30. The Su-25 is technologically inferior to the F-16, less flexible, its armament is delayed, as is its flight behavior.

Most likely, the downing of the Armenian fighter plane by the Turkish F-16 took place at a distance, without even the two fighters being involved in open-air combat. According to the ratings of experienced pilots, the predominant scenario is the Turkish pilot to launch a high-performance self-propelled radar missile from a long range on its head, type AIM-120 (Amraam), which becomes difficult to detect by the detection systems of the enemy aircraft, resulting in the downing of the Armenian fighter.

Additionally, the Armenian Su-25s joined the country’s Palestinian Authority with the collapse of the Soviet Union and are considered significantly outdated.

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