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F-22 pilots said Syrian Su-24 crews didn’t know they were intercepted

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USA TODAY has scored an interview with the two F-22 pilots who intercepted two Syrian Su-24 fighter bombers last week.

F-22 - Golden Formation
By U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

One of the stealth fighter came within 2,000 feet behind the Syrian Su-24s and both times, the Syrian pilots were not aware they had a pair of Raptors on their six.

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