SU-30 Pilot Who Provided Escort For Russian President Putin's Plane Explains That Their Job Is To Attract Possible Enemy Missiles With Their Engine's Heat Signature

RT: Su-30 pilot who covered Putin’s plane in Syria: Jets were ‘heat traps’ for possible enemy missiles

One of the Su-30SM pilots who covered Vladimir Putin’s plane on his recent trip to Syria opened up on the mission. The jets were “heat traps” ready to take possible enemy missiles upon themselves, he said.

“In this case, the task was to meet [the Russian President’s plane] and escort it to the landing strip,” a pilot named Yury told a Rossiya 1 correspondent at the Russian Khmeimim airbase in western Syria. “One of the tasks was to hereby cover it with ourselves, roughly saying,” he added.

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WNU Editor: In short .... their job is to take the missile hit.