GarryB Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:18 pm
Syria is at war with Turkey. Makes sense Syria deployed MiG-29 to Libya to hunt Turkish drones. Russia not at war with Turkey.
Fighter planes is not a very efficient or effective way of dealing with drones... flying aircraft around all the time would be expensive and add a lot of wear and tear on the aircraft, and air to air missiles are expensive... hundreds of times more expensive than Pantsir missiles and 30mm cannon shells.
And before you say it using a fighter plane to shoot down drones using cannon shells would be enormously risky...
Actually they don't hunt their drones with the migs and frankly I don't understand why.
Most fighter planes operate at reasonably high speed and reasonable altitude to protect them from small arms fire... going down low and slow to deal with small drones does not make sense... it exposes them to ground fire and MANPADS and the cost of one AAM to shoot down a drone it is simply not cost effective.
Pantsir is designed to engage air targets, and training ground forces to also engage air targets with small arms would be the way forward rather than tieing up expensive fighter jets.
They could just use the mig-29 on CAP and destroy anything flying above Libya. And destroying drones doesn't escalate a conflict. Russia destroys plenty of US/Israeli/Turkish drines in Syria and no one say nothing.
Does Russia use fighter aircraft to shoot down drones in Syria?
Syria is at war with Turkey. Makes sense Syria deployed MiG-29 to Libya to hunt Turkish drones. Russia not at war with Turkey.
Syria is at war with Turkey in Syria. Why take MiG-29s defending Syrian airspace away from Syria to fight in another country against Turkish troops that are no threat?
I would say hire some militia groups to go to Libya to fight against the troops Turkey has sent from Idlib to fight there because the more of those dicks that get killed the better for Syria, but remember Syrian needs for soldiers comes first in Syria.