Russian military intervention and aid to Syria #14

I like how they send them for every small repair toward admiralty shipyards at the other side of Russia .wasn't this already in the Mediteranean ? Was it for repair or stayed there before it get delivered to black sea.

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Armed with Novator 3M14 (NATO:SSN-30-A) Kalibr-PL cruise missiles,#ВМФ #ЧФ Black Sea Fleet 4th Independent Submarine Brigade’s Project 636.3Kilo+ class submarine Rostov-na-Donu Б237 transited Bosphorus towards Mediterranean

This is for the people who didn't believe Russia deployed Iskander-M at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. They were showcased during the 75th anniversary Parade.

Or Bastion?

franco wrote:Or Bastion?

Bastion-P's trailer looks significantly different.

They can use it as a forward airbase for choppers and su-25.

There is no sign that they will increase their presence or increase the bombings in Syria as of today. The situation is pretty calm.

https://mobile.twitter.com/halmiso1/status/1284147888642293760

Modernized P-18 radars in Syria.

Just who is 'driving' the Kilo, the guy who looks as if he is in his car, arm out the window?

The "driver" is normally in the command centre area.... these guys are just the lookouts and observers that warn of any potential for collisions or running aground... and of course get a breath of fresh air...

JohninMK wrote:Interesting if true. With India wanting some there must be a good stockpile.

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Russia provided 12 new MiG-29 aircraft to the Syrian army earlier this month
For the Syrian Air Force, to join its eight who arrived before it in early June last year,and to bring the number of planes that arrived in the Syrian army to this category to 20.
by Trending Sy

India bought from Mig some unfinished airframes that never flown.

Syria is getting IMO them from RuAF since they used to have 400 or so of them and don't really fly them anymore.

The difference is that Mig will never give planes for free. That's a company that makes money. RuAF is a part of russian military and they need Syria to be secured so they don't really care about the mig as they don't use them and can give them to the SAA.

Also, the Syrians are already familiar with the MiG-29....hopefully this gets confirmed

According to the article below, the new Syrian MiG-29's are equipped with the APD-518 tactical air situation information exchange terminals, allowing them to receive targeting data from an A-50 AWACS without the need to use their own radar (or if it's jammed). They're speculating this would give them a fighting chance against the Israeli fighters who are equipped with powerful EW systems ....also against Turish fighters in the event of another clash in Idlib....assuming Russia would provide the data from an A-50

https://topwar.ru/173176-chto-skryvajut-radiojelektronnyj-apgrejd-i-boekomplekty-obnovlennyh-mig-29-vvs-sirii-plohie-novosti-dlja-vvs-izrailja-i-izdanija-forbes.html?yrwinfo=1595205282443755-171290101924417657600250-production-app-host-man-web-yp-180

I think that is what the Russian MiG-29SMTs lacked when tested by the Russians in Syria... good to see that they are acting on fixing problems found...

That's also used by mig-31 and Syria was said to be a potential export customer of the mig-31BM back in 2008 I think. Maybe they will sell them two or three to act as mini AWACS against israeli and turkish f-16 and f-15 and as an AWACS destroyer with r-37.

Maybe Egypt should buy a squadron of mig-31.

I believe the subsystem can also get information from ground based systems. So updated P-18 and other radars can send the info to the MiGs
Doesn't mean just A-50

I would expect a Russian system to link to the local information sources on the ground and in the air...

The whole point of an IADS is to share sensors and weapons with all platforms....

That is what this is. These are pods to add such availabilities to older jets which didn't have them initially. Russia has left the whole seperate comm link structure between air and ground back in 2010, two years after Georgian war. For good reason too.

M-ATV flipped on it's arse!