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A lot is being said about the Kuweries airbase and its siege and recently about the causalities. This article will give a good insight into the airbase. Good one, should have posted earlier. Article from May 2015.
Battlefront Syria: Kweres airbase
http://spioenkop.blogspot.in/2015/05/battlefront-syria-kweres-airbase.html
As usual we also have the spin from the western propagada like this one below who probably want to show that SAA lost a third of its defenders...see what they write
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11987256/Russia-and-Iran-backed-offensive-helps-regime-break-Isils-two-year-siege-on-Syrian-airbase.html
Battlefront Syria: Kweres airbase
http://spioenkop.blogspot.in/2015/05/battlefront-syria-kweres-airbase.html
Kweres, the entry sign of which can be seen above, was originally constructed by Poles in the early sixties to serve as the SyAAF's main training base. It officially remains home to the Aviation Academy of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF), comprised of the Basic Flying School, using the MBB-SIAT 223K1 Flamingo and the PAC MFI-17 Mushshak, and the Advanced Flying School, using the L-39ZO and the L-39ZA. Most SyAAF pilots once got their wings here, which makes the airbase of high symbolic value.
The Basic Flying School quickly wound down operations after the start of the Civil War however, and its aircraft remain stored in various parts of the airbase. The SyAAF has thus been unable to train new pilots in Syria itself, further increasing the burden on the already tired and often depressed pilots, most of which are fully aware that more often than not civilians are on the receiving end of the rockets and (barrel) bombs. Another training facility; Mennegh, once home to the Helicopter Flying School, was already overrun on the 5th of August 2013. A limited form of advanced training was continued on L-39s and helicopters present elsewhere in Syria.
The defence of Kweres is in hands of an unknown number of SyAA, NDF and SyAAF soldiers, airmen and mechanics, most of which present at the airbase since the start of the revolution. It is believed that the garrison was reinforced in the summer of 2014 after the Free Syrian Army was forced to abandon its positions around the airbase in light of the Islamic State's advance.
An S-125 surface-to-air missile (SAM) battery located closely to Kweres evacuated all its equipment and personnel to Kweres to prevent being overrun by the Free Syrian Army somewhere in the 2012-2013 timeframe. Although the SAM battery was subsequently re-activated at Kweres and remained operational as of 2013, it is deemed unlikely that the battery currently remains active.
The twenty-six anti-aircraft guns present at the airbase (two from the nearby S-125 SAM site) provide the heavy firepower as no tanks or artillery are stationed at the airbase. This meant the defenders had to be creative, and the 14.5mm ZPU-4s, 23mm ZU-23s and 57mm AZP S-60s taken from four anti-aircraft emplacements were strategically placed throughout the airbase to attain the maximum amount of tactical value, sometimes even on top of Kweres' eleven Hardened Aircraft Shelters (HAS). It is interesting to note that most of the ZPU-4s had two of their four barrels taken away, which were then put on DIY mounts so as to increase the amount of ground covered by heavy weaponry.
^ Probably this was the causalities till 7th May 2015 and then the causalities from the recent attack just as the Tiger forces were advancing towards the base. In addition to this, the final push to the airbase cost 57 causalities for the SAA.A photo collage of some of the fallen defenders was published on the 7th of May 2015 by one of the defenders, commemorating eleven KIAs so far, including the commander of Kweres: General al-Muhanna.
As usual we also have the spin from the western propagada like this one below who probably want to show that SAA lost a third of its defenders...see what they write
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11987256/Russia-and-Iran-backed-offensive-helps-regime-break-Isils-two-year-siege-on-Syrian-airbase.html
Regime troops reached the Kweiris airbase, state television says, where almost 1,000 soldiers were trapped
State television said on Tuesday that regime troops had reached the Kweiris airbase and were in the process of securing it.
Almost a thousand soldiers had been trapped on the base, surviving through air drops of food and munitions.
Kweiris was home to the first jets used by the Syrian regime to target anti-government protesters in July 2012. But under siege it had become a morgue for soldiers who died on the base, prompting rare protests in a key regime stronghold, Tartus, that demanded the bodies were brought home.
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