‘SPLASH SU-22!’

COMBAT EDGE

A RADIO CALL OF ‘Fox 3’ in the skies over southern Syria on June 18 was no drill. As the AIM-120 AMRAAM sped towards its target at short range, the US Navy was about to claim its first aerial kill since Operation ‘Desert Storm’ in 1991.

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