Helicopter Shot Down, SNACKBAR!!!!!!

EYESwide85 · #1 ● 02-12-2020, 10:27 AM

This helicopter takes the long road down!

Muzziphilia · #2 ● 02-12-2020, 11:23 AM

Thanks Eyeswide85!

This was a Russian made Mi-8/Mi-17 helicopter piloted by a brigadier general of Syria, which was used to drop barrel bombs.

The SyAAF Mil Mi-17 crash site was 1.5km northwest of Qaminas.

Here are photos/video of the pilot and crash site.

Coreym07 · #3 ● 02-12-2020, 12:22 PM

Damn, that auto-rotation almost brought it down softly until it broke apart

**kellyhound** · #4 ● 02-12-2020, 03:35 PM

good, fuck him

sandoval666 · #5 ● 02-12-2020, 08:49 PM

Muzziphilia:
Can you provide any more details? Really curious about the full story here.
If what you say is true, I hope the entire crew suffered horribly and died slowly on the way down. Fuck them, for bombing civilians.

Berserk · #6 ● 02-13-2020, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by sandoval666 ↗

Muzziphilia:
Can you provide any more details? Really curious about the full story here.
If what you say is true, I hope the entire crew suffered horribly and died slowly on the way down. Fuck them, for bombing civilians.

They were actually bombing turkish supported troops and got shot down by the Turks.

So fck the Turks, they got some artillery pounding as retaliation and lost an few troops (5) when one of the turkish concoy's got bombed by Syrian Arty.
It was all over the news.

This helicopter was supporting the new Goverment push for liberating the M5 Highway from turkish army and its Snackbar-shouting fighter proxy's. Who kept this region since 2013 in their control. Iblib region.

This down here was published a few days later.

For the first time in about 8 years of the war, Syrian government forces have established control of the entire M5 highway, which runs from the border with Jordan through Damascus, Homs and Hama to Aleppo.

During the first half of February 12th, the Syrian Army and Iranian-backed militias recaptured the Rashidin 4 district from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other foreign-backed al-Qaeda enthusiasts in western Aleppo. By the end of the day, pro-government troops had taken control of Khan Asal and entered the villages of Abu Shalim, Wadi Shuha andWadi Al-Kabeer. The Syrians also attacked “moderate beheaders” in Kafr Nuran, but were not able to break their defenses there. The interesting fact is that on February 10 army positions in the nearby area of Kafr Halab became a target of at least two suicide bombing attacks. Apparently regular suicide bombings conducted by members of Idlib groups are a strong signal of their democratic ideology.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its comrades complain that the ‘Assad regime’ successes in western Aleppo were the result of dirty tricks, such as the massive usage of artillery, air power, heavy military equipment and unexpected manoeuvres.

Yet, Turkish artillery support and military equipment did not help them to regain the initiative near Saraqib, in eastern Idlib. Idlib groups announced a major advance there on February 11 and attacked the village of Naryab. *** A supposed MANPAD missile launched from the area of Turkish positions in Qaminas shot down a Syrian military helicopter killing all on board. *** The Turkish Defense Ministry even officially announced that Naryab had been cleared of ‘Assad forces’ and claimed that 51 ‘regime fighters’ had been ‘neutralized’, and that 2 tanks, a gun position and a weapon depot belonging to the Syrian military had been destroyed in Idlib clashes. However, victorious tweets did not help and Turkish-led forces got clobbered by the evening. The Syrians restored full control over the town. According to pro-government sources, up to 40 militants were killed there. Several airstrikes also hit joint positions of Turkish troops and Idlib militants near Qaminas. The damage and casualties caused by these strikes remains unclear.