Myanmar Resistance Downs Junta Fighter Jet in Sagaing Region Clash

[geovalin]

PLA

 

 

A fighter jet belonging to Myanmar’s military regime was shot down by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Tuesday during fierce fighting near Kan Dauk police station in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, according to the PLA and local sources.

 

The jet is the latest in a string of regime aircraft brought down by resistance groups since the 2021 coup, marking at least the tenth loss of a military plane.

 

PLA spokesperson Daw Ni Ni Kyaw confirmed the downing, saying it occurred around 12:15 pm as the group and allied forces continued their assault on the police station, which began on June 2. The regime responded with repeated airstrikes using fighter jets and Y12 aircraft.

 

A local witness said the resistance used a .50-caliber M2 Browning machine gun to shoot down the warplane, which crashed in a nearby village and exploded on impact, setting buildings and a monastery ablaze.

 

Footage released by the PLA shows wreckage scattered near the burning village and what appears to be the remains of the pilot.

 

While the military confirmed a jet had crashed and caught fire in Pale Township, it attributed the incident to engine failure during a training exercise.

 

This event comes just three weeks after two regime helicopters were downed during clashes with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near Bhamo town. On May 20, the KIA used suicide drones and firearms to disable two helicopters transporting troops to the embattled 21st Military Operations Command headquarters.

 

Resistance media released footage of a drone striking a helicopter rotor and later destroying one of the crash-landed aircraft as junta troops attempted recovery operations.

 

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s resistance forces have downed four fighter jets, five helicopters, and one helicopter gunship in armed confrontations across multiple states, including Sagaing, Kachin, Rakhine, Shan, Karen, and Karenni.

 

The growing ability of resistance groups to target and neutralize air assets marks a significant shift in Myanmar’s conflict, weakening the regime’s once-dominant aerial advantage and signaling a deepening of the country’s civil war.

 

-2025-06-11

[spidermike007]

Absolutely fantastic news, keep up the good work guys, you are fighting the good fight, and you destroying a corrupt, serial killing, thuggish, thieving, heroin dealing, gem smuggling, land grabbing, heinous monster. 

[thaipo7]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Absolutely fantastic news, keep up the good work guys, you are fighting the good fight, and you destroying a corrupt, serial killing, thuggish, thieving, heroin dealing, gem smuggling, land grabbing, heinous monster. 

Yet you don't see this with the Marxist Democrat Party in the US.  What is the difference to you?

[spidermike007]

31 minutes ago, thaipo7 said:

Yet you don't see this with the Marxist Democrat Party in the US.  What is the difference to you?

In reality I think Trump has been far more of a Marxist than the Democrats. He has taken a page right out of the Marxist playbook when it comes to using sloganeering and propaganda to try to convince people of non-truths.

 

Think about that just for a moment. If you can open your mind to reality. 

[Burma Bill]

On 6/11/2025 at 9:07 AM, geovalin said:

it attributed the incident to engine failure during a training exercise.

 

 

IMO fake news!  Would you send a plane on a training mission over a war zone? I certainly would not.

[Sydebolle]

Well, the Chinese just secured some more tons of rare earths then .........

Good on the resistance; congratulations and keep up the good work. The Tadmadaw eventually will dry out, unless of course, the big red brethren in the North think otherwise.