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FAV F-16 takes down Narcos Planes

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F-16 tally of Helicopters, drones and other useless aircraft on the rise:

 

 

 

According to Vladimir López Padrino, commander of the Ceofanb, the Comando Estratégico Operational de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (Venezuelan Air Force Strategic Operations Command), who gave the new using his twitter account, on the evening of Saturday Oct. 12 some F-16s belonging to the Aviación Militar Bolivariana Venezolana(Bolivarian National Air Force of Venezuela) shot down two Narcos planes south of Apure, not far from the border with Colombia.

 

Padrino released an image of the remains of one of the intruder aircraft: a sort of admonishment for all those who might believe that flying above the Amazon rainforest at low altitude could be enough to escape interception.

 

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http://theaviationist.com/2013/10/14/narcos-shot-down/

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One member of the King Air's family, or Xingu ?

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Reminds me of some of the better parts of the novel of Clear and Present Danger...F-15s downing those jerks over the water. Nice.

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