Vann7 Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:45 am
Akula971 wrote: Morpheus Eberhardt wrote:Well, all of this talk about about England's or France's incursions into the Syrian airspace aren't necessarily true. ...
Would you be so kind to tell me the real scenario then, all my sources are quoting each other and its a proper mess. If one bogus report is posted, even trusted sources started spewing them all over. For example, the Israeli incursion news came from a good Russian source lol.
I mean Twitter is always 98% BS but now those guys are going over too. Its confusing to say the least. Can you please tell me what is NATO doing, if anything at all, in Syria. Thanks !
So far what is happening now ..is a testing game.. NATO is testing how far they can push in Syria
without engaging into a direct war with Russia.. So no worries Neither France or UK or US will attack Russia.. the one to watch however is Turkey.. it could be used as the mad dog ,said in another way. you should be worried if NATO do not show up a day in Syria airspace. that will mean they expecting something really bad to happen.
But so far no nato player is bombing Syrian government troops.. If that happens Russia will give an ultimatum that if ever happens again will start shooting down their planes. All this means that pretty much NATO is fucked in Syria it cannot impose a no fly zone there and remove Russia without starting world war 3 or without having to deal with S-400 missiles and others.
There is one S-400 in latakia.. there is an S-300 in Moscow warship coast near Turkey border and Syria have Many decent air defenses like Buks and Pantsirs that can defend its capital etc.
So Syrian air defenses are ok ,specially in nothern Syria. And it will only get better once they liberate Aleppo /Hama and homs. becuase will allow Russia to get a more deep and complex
air defense network.
What you need to remember is that the engagement rules for Syria is to try to avoid as much as possible any confrontation with NATO and Israel.. even if they sneak and bomb at times.. But if
a major war start Syria do have S-200s that can reach 300km range and start shuting down
nato planes or Israel. If a major war start Syria will NOT allow Israel or any NATO plane to get close to its airspace ,but now since they are busy fighting terrorist.. they avoid any confrontation with foreign powers.. and will only strike back if is the only way to save lives or if
any plane try to bomb the government Buildings.. something that have not happened in 5 years of conflict.
What is important to remember is that you need a lot more than one month of Airstrikes to
defeat an army that is spread in all Syria. Russia for example have been bombing Syria for 1 month? and have not done enough damage to defeat ISIS.. only at best to hold their attacks and damage its supplies.So if Israel and Turkey start a full scale war ,lets say with 20-30 planes and invade Syria..all of them will be attacked or shotdown.