Super Hornet got its first kill

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Super Hornet got its first kill

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Pentagon confirms a F/A-18E from the USS George H.W. Bush shot down a Syrian Su-22 today, after the latter dropped bombs on SDF troops near Tabqa. Syrian pilot KIA.
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The Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/che ... ccce7db969
June 18 at 5:36 PM

U.S.-led jets stopped the fighting by flying close to the ground and at low-speed in what is called a “show of force,” the Pentagon said.

Roughly two hours later,
despite the called-for stand down and the U.S. presence overhead,
a Syrian Su-22 jet attacked the Syrian Democratic Forces,
dropping an unknown number of munitions on the U.S.-backed force.

A U.S. F/A-18 promptly shot the Syrian aircraft down “in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of coalition partnered forces,” the Pentagon statement said.

A statement distributed by the Syrian military and distributed on Twitter said that the aircraft’s lone pilot was killed in the attack.
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As the mighty CVN-77 nears the end of this tour of duty, some port visits are expected :wink: does anyone have a (partial?) list of the aircraft embarked?
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And Russia didn't like it....
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Taken from facebook, yeah i know, the super bug in question is F/A-18E 168914/AJ-304 VFA-87 "Warparty."
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Starman wrote:As the mighty CVN-77 nears the end of this tour of duty, some port visits are expected :wink: does anyone have a (partial?) list of the aircraft embarked?
Partial... yes.
June 23, The George H.W. Bush anchored approximately 50 nautical miles west of Cyprus for a brief "swim call."
Wasn't that far from you. Didn't you get the "swim call" note? :lol:
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The GHWB duly arrived in Haifa on 1st July, but swimming out to see it would have been unwise. According to local sources, two photographers' drones were "taken out" on Sunday, and very few press were allowed to accompany our Prime Minister when he visited (on S-70 "575"). Numbers from the two days we looked out across the bay are trickling in...
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Newer reports and a photo shows AJ-302 with the Sukhoi kill.
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