Both Syria and the Russians have S-400 batteries in Syria. The USAF, USMC and US Navy along with allied air forces routinely operate over Syria against IS targets. In fact, the US air force never sends piloted aircraft anywhere near airspace which is in range of S400 defence systems There is also a mix of US, UK and Italian recce aircraft operating with it. After that incident the US started using the larger and higher flying RQ-4B Global Hawk They fly higher than any Russian fighter can fly so unless they shoot missiles at it it will be safe from collision. The aircraft that hit the Predator was a SU-27 Flanker, not the smaller and much slower SU-25 Frogfoot. They were flying in international airspace too. They have zero self defense capability and not a whiff of stealth. They are propeller driven and fly a brisk 140 knots. This is why when a Russian SU-25 downed a top class US Predatory drone in the Black Sea the US air force cowered from retaliating. There are no NATO nation troops operating in Ukraine. Wagner already chewed up Nato supplied troops and Nato mercenaries in Bakmut and we didn't see any B2 intervention. Against Afghanistan and Iraq they operated from Diego Garcia and occasionally directly from Whitman AFB in Nebraska. Against Libya the B-2s flew round trip non stop from the US. Each B-2 flew a 33-hour, round-trip mission from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri with four or five (accounts differ) refuelings during the trip.ī-2s were also used in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq. These strikes were followed by an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle firing Hellfire missiles. The B-2s together dropped 108 500-pound (230 kg) precision-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs. On 18 January 2017, two B-2s attacked an ISIS training camp 30 km southwest of Sirte, Libya, killing around 85 militants. Biden can't order B2 strikes without a declaration of war and Nato's article 5 can't be invoked unless a Nato member gets attacked directly. Oh yeah I forgot, reality isn't a video game. Why weren't B2 bombers deployed against ISIS or against drug cartels in Columbia or Mexico?
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