Oops, Syria Downs Russian Reconnaissance Plane-15 Russians Killed

[Camp]

Russia is blaming Israel for the downing of a Russian military reconnaissance aircraft causing the death or missing status of at least 15 personnel. Preliminary reports indicate Israel jets were evading or more accurately, confusing radar detection by sneaking into Syrian territory for a bombing mission by using the Russian aircraft as a shadow. Syrian radar picked up the group of aircraft which included the Russian jet and fired anti-aircraft missiles. While Israel attack aircraft were able to evade the missiles, the Russian reconnaissance aircraft was not.

 

[bodecea]

That's not the Israeli planes' fault.

 

[Camp]

That's not the Israeli planes' fault.

Poor communications? Shouldn't the Syrian AA Battery have been aware of the inbound Russian craft?