and why doesn’t US or other NATO members provide any radar info to back Turkey’s claim?

Su-35S on their way to Syria ;)

4 newly build Su-35S have just been deployed to Syria

“GLONASS does have issues at middle to equatorial latitudes” - that was years ago, when there was low numbers of GLONASS satellites, thus bad coverage of lower and equatorial latitudes. Since 2011 GLONASS has had full coverage. (GLONASS to the left on the picture below)

“Russia’s GLONASS system is apparently pretty unreliable and prone to breaking down” - really?

“since we’re basing F-15s in Turkey” - are you sure about that?

“Shooting down a drone won’t provoke an ‘international incident’” - but it would certainly skyrocket the oil prices, and it’s the last thing Obama adm. needs right now :D

those 250kg (551 lb) bombs have 51 m (167 feet) kill radius for soft targets (infantry, over open space). An “ОФАБ-250-270" holds 11520 fragments.

yes, I understand what he is saying. I guess I should have asked “WTF” instead of “what”. Because those 250kg (551 lb) bombs have 51 m (167 feet) kill radius for soft targets (infantry, over open space). An “ОФАБ-250-270" holds 11520 fragments.

same as it did for US in 2001 ;)

“With a certainly-lethal range of 10 meters or less” - what?

I guess you didn’t bother to check where bombings took place. Well, maybe you should.

“they’ve been grounded because of this incident.” - if you look at the date of the incident, they have not been grounded for too long then :D

ah yes, of course..............Assad has let “moderates” out and created ISIS........got anymore funny cartoons?

ah yes, posting some 2014 reports........................................................................................................facepalm

even if accuracy is off by 50+ meters, it’s more than enough down there, look at the area of the drop. And the situation down there requires these kind of measures.

Tu-22M are equipped with SVP-24-22 system which uses GLONASS

“That is LITERALLY what Assad has wanted since he released all the Islamists from his jails in 2011" - but they are “moderate” opposition......oh wait... :D

bombs were dropped from 6K meters, so more like 20K feet and not 30K.

“still make carpet bombing in todays day and age a weapon of terror only” - aganst ISIS in the desert around Deir ez-Zor it’s quite appropriate, especially considering the situation down there