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US Navy F-18 Hornet Pilot That Shot Down Syrian Su-22 Speaks!

August 1, 2017 F-18A_Hornet_of_VFA-161_launches_AIM-7_Sparrow_c1987
FighterSweep Staff 4 Comments Military Aviation, Navy, News, Photos, Video

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael “MOB” Tremel, the first US pilot to score an aerial victory in almost 20 years has remarked about what took place that day.

Lt Cdr Michael Tremel of the Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-87 ‘Golden Warriors’ made the first US air-to-air kill since a USAF F-16 shot down a Serbian MiG-29 in 1999, during the Kosovo campaign.

Tremel, speaking to media for the first time aboard the Bush anchored in the Solent said “the whole incident lasted about eight minutes… I did not directly communicate with the Syrian Jet but he was given several warnings by our supporting AWACS aircraft… So yes, we released ordnance and yes it hit a target that was in the air, but it really just came back to defending those guys that were doing the hard job on the ground and taking that ground back from ISIS.”

He recalled; “I didn’t see the pilot eject but my wingman observed his parachute.” Tremel is an incredibly modest and relaxed gentleman, it is others, not himself who are keen to make a big deal about what was a relatively simple air-air kill against an obsolete aircraft. “When you think about the shoot-down, in the grand scheme of things… we [our squadron] flew over 400 missions in support of friendly forces on the ground” he said. On encounters with Russian aircraft, he said: “They behaved with great professionalism at all times.” – Save The Royal Navy

Bravo Zulu Lt Cdr Tremel!

Featured image by U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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