Russian military intervention and aid to Syria #2

Russian forces destroy IS communications centre in Homs, command post in Hama

Airstrikes on three terrorist facilities were made in the area of the Tell Bisa settlement in the Homs province, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman added

MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. The Sukhoi Su-24M bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have made an airstrike on a communications centre of the Islamic State militants in the Syrian province of Homs and on a command post of the militants in the vicinity of Al-Rastan, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday.

"The building that housed the communications centre was destroyed as a result of a direct hit. The communications reconnaissance data have confirmed its destruction," he said.

In addition, Konashenkov said, airstrikes on three terrorist facilities were made in the area of the Tell Bisa settlement in the Homs province. "The Su-34 and Su-24M planes destroyed two ammunition depots of terrorists. The airstrikes caused a fire and detonation of the ammunition, which destroyed these facilities," he said.

On Sunday, Russian aviation has made 25 sorties in Syria, delivering strikes on 9 Islamic State facilities.

Russian pilots started making pinpoint strikes on terrorist facilities in Syria last week - on September 30. The Russian Aerospace Forces’ air group in Syria comprises more than 50 planes and helicopters. The military operation is conducted at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Russian military are not planning a ground operation in Syria.

Konashenkov told reporters last week that in accordance with a decision by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin, the Russian Aerospace Force planes started an operation to deal pinpoint strikes against ground targets of the IS terrorist group in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. "The Russian Defense Minister, General Sergei Shoigu has told his counterparts in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation that in the course of the military operation in Syria Russian warplanes have been attacking military equipment, communication centres, vehicles and munitions and fuel and lubricants depots of the Islamic State terrorists."

From RT, the set of bombs and missiles on Russian Su-24/25/30SM/34

https://www.rt.com/news/317643-russian-precision-weapons-syria/
https://www.rt.com/news/317662-russian-smart-bombs-syria/

We have KAB-250/500, Kh-25L / 29L, BETAB-500, OFAB-250.

1001 likes for Larvov

https://www.rt.com/news/317655-moscow-contacts-free-syrian-army/

Russia is ready for contact with the Free Syrian Army, but it is now a 'phantom,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said at a news conference following talks with his Laos counterpart in Moscow.

"They tell us about the Free Syrian Army, but where is it? It remains a phantom group, nothing is known about it," Lavrov said, adding that Russia has sent a request about the group to the United States.

"We will be ready to establish contact with it if it’s really a capable military group of patriotic opposition consisting of Syrians. We do not hide this fact. But this structure is already a phantom. I have asked [State Secretary] John Kerry to provide us with information about the whereabouts of this Free Syrian Army and who commands it," said Lavrov.

"So far no one has told us where and how this Free Syrian Army operates or where and how other units of the so-called moderate opposition operate."

The minister also said that Moscow has asked the United States for details on the army.

Russia’s top diplomat also said he knows of no US intentions to undermine Moscow's efforts in Syria.

“I haven’t heard about the plans to undermine our work in Syria from the US side or from anyone else,” Lavrov said at the news conference. He added that Russia had established contacts with the US on the Syrian situation at presidential level, as well as at defense and foreign minister levels.

JohninMK wrote:Confirmation that the RuAF is operating right on the Turkish border.

I suppose if its OK for Turkish F-16s to overfly Syria to attack the Kurds, and ISIS of course, then it must also be OK for Su-25s to overfly Turkey to attack ISIS.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov over an alleged violation of Turkish airspace by a Russian warplane, the ministry said in a statement Monday.

ANKARA (Sputnik) – According to the statement, a Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace in the province of Hatay near Syria on October 3. The aircraft left Turkish airspace after being intercepted by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/world/20151005/1028027560/turkey-russia-airspace.html#ixzz3ngt7LqlJ

All sorted then

ANKARA (Sputnik) – Moscow told Ankara that the Russian aircraft that violated Turkish airspace was a mistake and that it would not happen again, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday.

Earlier on Monday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said a Russian military aircraft had violated the country’s airspace on October 3 from Syria.

"We contacted Russia through diplomatic channels and were told that Russia respects Turkey’s borders and that incident occurred because of misunderstanding, but won’t happen again," Davutoglu said in an interview aired by Turkey’s Haberturk television channel.

The Russian aircraft left Turkish airspace after being intercepted by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151005/1028036764/russia-turkey-airspace-border-violation.html#ixzz3nhBCpoYq

Krasukha-4 CONFIRMED

sputniknews.com/world/20151005/1028033057/syria-russia-electronic-warfare-systems.html

JohninMK wrote:
Looks to be on the wrong truck to be a SPN-3,4,30

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-REB-Systems.html

What would we do without ausairpower.net?

Seems to be pointing up the line of approach, which looks to be North.

Well im lookin at the antenna arrangement.

But then yes im mistaken.. it's indeed Krasukha 4. I forget that Krasukha is a family of jammer (there is Krasukha 2)

max steel wrote:

How long before Russia establishes a forward operating base in the Damascus area? Or skips to an Iraqi base? Get at ISIS from the east and west.

I find it surprising how come so called rebels have a foothold near Golan heights area in Syria ? There is no link btwn isis held area with that region then how

nknown MiG-29 in the area of the Syrian-Turkish border seized as a target two Turkish F-16 aircraft. This was stated by the Turkish General staff, reports TASS.
The incident occurred on October 4,

???

sepheronx wrote:...

The problem with this statement is, that there is no russian MIG-29s in Syria...

Militarov wrote:

Cyberspec wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Looks more like some MRLS munition

I belive its one of the BM-30 rocket derivates. Tho they reported this as "unexploded Russian bomb".

Yes, I doubled checked, and it appears to be MRLS.

Russia must work with, not against, America in Syria

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We all know how the first world war started. Individual acts of violence cumulatively set in motion irreversible military operations that lacked overall strategic guidance as well as a larger clarity of purpose. The rest is history: a four-year slaughter conducted for the sake of ambitious goals largely formulated ex post facto by the victorious powers.

There is still time to avert a painful repetition, this time exploding in the Middle East, and in Syria specifically. I supported President Barack Obama’s initial decision not to use force in the Syrian tragedy. The use of US power to remove President Bashar al-Assad from office — so eagerly advocated by some of our friends in the Middle East — made no sense in the absence of genuine domestic consensus in favour of it either in Syria or in America. Moreover, whether we like it or not, Mr Assad was neither inclined to accommodate Washington’s urgings that he step down nor intimidated by helter-skelter US efforts to organise effective democratic resistance to his rule.

A breakthrough has since been achieved, however, in the very difficult nuclear negotiations with Iran, in which both the US and Russia co-operated with other leading powers to overcome the obstacles. One might have thought, therefore, that the next phase in coping with the Syrian problem might involve a renewed effort to resolve it, this time with the help of such important signatories as China and Russia.

Instead, Moscow has chosen to intervene militarily, but without political or tactical co-operation with the US — the principal foreign power engaged in direct, if not very effective, efforts to unseat Mr Assad. In doing so it allegedly launched air attacks at Syrian elements that are sponsored, trained and equipped by the Americans, inflicting damage and causing casualties. At best, it was a display of Russian military incompetence; at worst, evidence of a dangerous desire to highlight American political impotence.

In either case, the future of the region, and American credibility among the states of the Middle East, are both at stake. In these rapidly unfolding circumstances the US has only one real option if it is to protect its wider stakes in the region: to convey to Moscow the demand that it cease and desist from military actions that directly affect American assets. Russia has every right to support Mr Assad, if it so wishes — but any repetition of what has just transpired should prompt US retaliation.

The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland. They could be “disarmed” if they persist in provoking the US. But, better still, Russia might be persuaded to act with the US in seeking a wider accommodation to a regional problem that transcends the interests of a single state.

Were that to happen, even some limited American-Russian political and military collaboration on the Middle East might prompt a further positive geopolitical development: constructive engagement on the part of China in containing the dangers of a wider Middle East explosion. Beijing has a significant economic stake in the prevention of a larger Middle East conflict. It should not only be interested in preventing the further spread of chaos but also in increasing its own regional influence.

France and Britain can no longer play a decisive role in the Middle East. The US is finding it hard to play such a role alone. The region itself is split on religious, political, ethnical and territorial lines, and slipping into widening violence. This calls for outside assistance but not for a new form of neocolonial domination. US power, intelligently and decisively applied in pursuit of a new formula for regional stability, is needed.

China would doubtless prefer to stay on the sidelines. It might calculate that it will then be in a better position to pick up the pieces. But the regional chaos could easily spread northeastward, eventually engulfing central and northeastern Asia. Both Russia and then China could be adversely affected. But American interests and America’s friends — not to mention regional stability — would also suffer. It is time, therefore, for strategic boldness.

The writer was national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, former US president

Akula971 wrote:Krasukha-4 CONFIRMED

sputniknews.com/world/20151005/1028033057/syria-russia-electronic-warfare-systems.html

I luv see the krazuk jam the f22

Solncepek wrote:Russia must work with, not against, America in Syria
The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland. They could be “disarmed” if they persist in provoking the US. But, better still, Russia might be persuaded to act with the US in seeking a wider accommodation to a regional problem that transcends the interests of a single state.

With all due respect to the man's reputation but how is he so certain about the US "disarming" a Russian base? One look at the map and it should be clear who's going to come up with a much harsher response if it comes down to provocations. This accentuates the core logic of American geopolitics. Notice how he mentions a military option before the "common interests" option? They didn't shoot at Russian paratroopers in Pristina airport, they didn't respond when the Russian navy was ramming their ships in the Black Sea and I'm positive they won't lift a finger in Syria. All talk but no walk.

Oh boy, just look and listen at all the drama from NATO and particularly Stoltenberg and Kerry about this incident with the violation of Turkey's air space. Perhaps let Turkey and Russia figure it out between themselves? Turkey is a big boy and I'm fairly certain it can handle itself. Violating Syria's air space is ofcourse nothing to sweat about but oh no when a nation with bigger balls than you does the same.

Neutrality wrote:

Solncepek wrote:Russia must work with, not against, America in Syria
The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland. They could be “disarmed” if they persist in provoking the US. But, better still, Russia might be persuaded to act with the US in seeking a wider accommodation to a regional problem that transcends the interests of a single state.

With all due respect to the man's reputation but how is he so certain about the US "disarming" a Russian base? One look at the map and it should be clear who's going to come up with a much harsher response if it comes down to provocations. This accentuates the core logic of American geopolitics. Notice how he mentions a military option before the "common interests" option? They didn't shoot at Russian paratroopers in Pristina airport, they didn't respond when the Russian navy was ramming their ships in the Black Sea and I'm positive they won't lift a finger in Syria. All talk but no walk.

It was a written by the notorious jackass Zbignew Brzezinski, that's all you need to know!

Get this: http://www.demorgen.be/buitenland/rusland-leger-heeft-afgelopen-24-uur-negen-stellingen-van-is-gebombardeerd-a2479310/

This particular line:

Volgens andere bronnen trof de Russische luchtmacht echter vooral stellingen van andere groeperingen zoals het al-Nusra Front, de Syrische tak van de terreurorganisatie al-Qaida.

Translation: "According to other sources however, the Russian air force struck mostly fortifications of other groups like the al-Nusra Front. The Syrian branch of AQ".

It's unbelievable but the author is deliberately trying to make the reader feel sorry for AQ's proxies. So now our dear MSM have to lower themselves to the point where they defend and feel sorrow for these organizations? Despicable.

About the question of russian sorties of 20 per day and if it should expand their operations.

I think they first want to establish a clear and safe perimeters for them and syrians to reinforce their echelons and canalize their resources, also first check NATO's and Israels responses and measures, before trying to get to far out of safety.

That is exactly why ECM/EW and modern and highly capable aircrafts like Su-30M are there. I would urge Syria to announce openly that they give to russia permission to shoot down any foreign jets if they violate Syrian airspace and Russia not only has the full right, but also it will shut the fuck up the turkey the little USrael bitch it is, also jews would shut up with their useless airforce.