Well that is the liberty of being in the President run up.
Lots of domestic shout out, like – America need a Stronk President!

That has allways been the case.

Well, at least we don’t know who is going to win the next presidential election in the US in 2016 – unlike the next presidential elections in Russia and Syria.

Already answered that:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?136371-Russia-moving-tac-air-troops-to-Syria&p=2265242#post2265242

And yes the USN also downed an Iranian airliner in 1988. The only difference in the Russian case was that the airliner had strayed off course by some distance.

Soviet air defence forces also shot down an Aeroflot Tu-104 in 1962 and a Korean Airlines Boeing 707 in 1978.

What’s the missile, it’s certainly not a Hellfire?

I did not intend to suggest that and have clarified my post accordingly. What is true is that all those millions of lines of code in the F-35, whatever their other merits, will inevitably create vulnerabilities and failure modes that did not previously exist, which is why development and testing of such functions has proceeded at a snail’s pace and been the dragging foot of the F-35 program for some time now. I would’ve thought anyone even vaguely connected with modern software development (as in simply being an informed user of even e.g. a smartphone) would appreciate both the difficulty and scale of the problem how it is a function of modern systems complexity, and the partly reactive nature of finding and fixing bugs, which in turn ties into experience and thereby reinforces the eminent suitability of the 1991 Gulf War as the relevant point of comparison for Russia’s recent missile attacks. US missile reliability did not improve simply because more powerful hardware and high-level programming languages became available over the years, but because they had ample opportunity to observe what went wrong and to fix it.

It doesn’t matter how many million lines of code are in an F-35, ist it a reliable and safe aircraft or not? How lines of code does today’s Boeing 787 employ, compared to a 1962 B707? Which is the safer and more reliable plane? I bought a new laptop computer a few months ago – it’s got a lot more file storage, processing power and RAM than 10 Apollo moon programmes put together – it’s a lot more reliable than any 1960s spacecraft as well.:)

…and the partly reactive nature of finding and fixing bugs, which in turn ties into experience and thereby reinforces the eminent suitability of the 1991 Gulf War as the relevant point of comparison for Russia’s recent missile attacks. US missile reliability did not improve simply because more powerful hardware and high-level programming languages became available over the years, but because they had ample opportunity to observe what went wrong and to fix it.

Precisely. If the Russian AF has something to learn from the boming in Syria, technically wise, they will learn it – who is doubting that (and what’s it got to do with the F-35 operational record anyway?).

Western antirussian propaganda went on high rounds.

that’s not a very good example of “Western antirussian propaganda”. It looks like a a TV interview. Where did you find that freeze frame.

But conservative Iranian media described the reports of missiles landing in Iran as “psychological operations by the US against Moscow”.
“Since Russia began its operations in Syria, Western media and officials have launched an all-out assault against Moscow,” the Fars News Agency, thought to have close affiliations with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said.

So at least the Iranian media media is trying to say that something did happen in Northern Iran a few nights ago. What do the mean by “psychological operations by the US against Moscow”?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34479873

Flying this low with all those MANPADS and 23mm AA guns, the Steel Balls Award goes to this brave Russian Air Force Mi-24PN Pilot 😎

Eventually such a low and slow target is going to be taken out by a) an RPG or b) a wire-guided antitank missile. It’s only a matter of when. So it is strange that they should allow such vulnerable flights.