nanarchy on 24 November 2015
Scoobes said:
They apparently have two checkpoints before you enter Turkish airspace. They start warning as you approach 10km and scramble jets at 5km. They only fire once you enter their territory but they could have had approval well before then. |
An Su 24 can travel over 2000km/h (edit 1500km/h, it is the 24m not the 24's). lets make that 1000km/h for arguments sake. 10km is traveled in around 30 seconds at that speed. no way in hell would they be scrambling jets only at 5km. By the time the jets got in the air the su 24's would be long gone. reports on the turkish side say they traveled up to about 3 km's into turkish space if I read right. That means the ENTIRE incident including all warnings before opening fire was done in well under a minute.
