Russia’s ‘proof’ that U.S. helps ISIS is from a video game. Mistakes happen, Kremlin says.
The image provided by the Russian Defense Ministry was damning: three Islamic State trucks led by an armored vehicle on their way to a key battlefield in eastern Syria, allowed safe passage by the United States.
Russian drones, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on social media, spotted the convoy fleeing Bukamal on Nov. 9, the same day Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces said they captured the key militant stronghold on the Euphrates River. Their safe passage was “irrefutable evidence” that the United States allows the Islamic State to wreak havoc to meet its interests in the region, the ministry said on Facebook and Twitter.
If you’re a gamer interested in air combat simulators, you may have already seen the convoy before you gunned downed digital enemies on your computer screen while playing AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron, released in 2015 by the Byte Conveyor game studio.
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Left: An image of the photo tweeted by Russia’s Ministry of Defense. Right: An image of the game AC-130 Gunship Simulator. (Newsy and Byte Conveyor)
The game, developed for smartphones and shown in videos posted by what appears to be a now-defunct company, allows users to destroy enemy vehicles from the controls of the AC-130, the military’s go-to aircraft for close air support and ground strikes using weapons that transform the plane into an artillery piece with wings.
