Footage of F 18E Super Hornet Downing A Syrian Su 22

Footage from the US Military’s first manned air-to-air kill in nearly twenty years has surfaced. Multi-angle FLIR imagery shows a F/A-18E Super Hornet downing a SAA Su-22 over Syria this past year. A cruise book video from returning Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 31 (VFA-31) has circulated, depicting the US Military’s first air-to-air kill against a manned aircraft since the Balkan campaign in the late 90s. The downing of this Syrian Su-22 this past summer has been attributed to Lt. Cmdr. Michael “Mob” Tremel of VFA-31 who, along with several other pilots recently gave a detailed account of the events that transpired. The video depicts the shoot-down from several aerial perspectives; showing the missile strike and the subsequent fiery crash of the aircraft. Originally flying a Close Air-Support (CAS) mission against ISIS, the lone Syrian jet was spotted entering the US aircraft’s vicinity – forcing Tremel to, “extend out in air-to-air master mode while these guys are in air-to-ground master mode to monitor t