As someone else stated it was an ambush. I tend to agree. It takes time to scramble jets and especially for the limited time the jets was in Turkish airspace.
“As someone else stated it was an ambush. I tend to agree. It takes time to scramble jets and especially for the limited time the jets was in Turkish airspace.”
If it was an ongoing thing it wouldn’t be hard. The Russians have never been shy about shooting down aircraft that violated their airspace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_C-130_shootdown_incident ) so I’m not too willing to cut them a lot of slack when it comes back to bite them in the @ss.