"Was a Russian Su-24 strike bomber over Turkish airspace earlier today when it was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter, as the Turkish government claimed?
But it's entirely possible both sides are right—based on different data sources.
...the Russians have published their own version of navigational tracking data that shows the Su-24 flying south of a part of the Turkish border that juts southward into Syria.
...it's still possible that the GLONASS system used by the Russian military for navigation may have given the aircrew different information than the Turks had.
GLONASS has fewer satellites than GPS, and more of its satellites follow the same orbital path.
That makes positioning errors more likely..."
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