Russian MoD press briefing which was held earlier due to the multi-national terrorist threat faced by Russia and Syria. Video with proper English subtitles.

The specific mention of “invisible” aircraft was likely made to get the message right across to the murican fanboys, who bragged about the F-22s intercepting the Syrian jets without them even knowing it, that Russia has been tracking these “invisible” aircrafts all along.

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^^ Russian spokesman had mentioned about specific knowledge about where the official western jihadi supporters are based in Syria and specifically in Aleppo. The reports had mentioned that the reason for so much effort from the western Jihadi supporters on the diplomatic front was due to the fact that there was over 200 “uniformed” jihadi supporters trapped inside eastern Aleppo. Their best bet is to sneak into the Kurdish pocket and that is where these Jihadi supporters are likely to cross over or have already crossed over. So there is a need for Syrian forces to isolate the Kurdish pocket from the moderate terrorists held locations. It would be good to have those western Jihadis supporters to be captured alive. several of them are likely to be already dead.

Few battle field reports from the front line. And all along I fail to understand the utter lack of priority from the Russian side for developing a proper armed UAV on the likes of earlier proposed Sukhoi’s Zond series.

The terrorists have kept the civilians as human shields in the eastern Aleppo region and this has now slowed down the Syrian army advance. There is only one way to get those terrorists roaming in the alleys and that is with the use of armed drones. Unfortunately Russia doesn’t have anything to offer and only guys in the game are China and Iran. There is a need to being in as many armed Chinese drone as possible to scan the eastern Aleppo and strike at these terrorists.

On the front lines in Aleppo, 9th October 2016.
Its would be like thousands of buildings to be cleared and no wonder the western Jihadi supporters estimated a 2 month window.

Liwa al-Quds in Owaija district, 9th Oct 2016

^ The young lad of the storming group of 5 men who came back injured taking two bullets on his chest and hand is eager to go back to fight with his comrades. Its disturbing to see that the men fighting on the frontline is not having proper field medical support, probably due to manpower shortage. If not for the Russian reporters covering the frontline even that first aid probably would not have been available.

Liberation of the Handarat camp was the breakthrough that Syrian forces needed to advance from North Aleppo.

what is the significance of this announcement ?

Russia plans permanent naval facility in Syrian port of Tartus – MoD

https://www.rt.com/news/362209-russian-permanent-naval-facility-tartus/

In short, Russia’s kaliningrad in the Mediterranean!
Russia needs to bring it to that status at the earliest and install the entire range of AD system and fortify its bases from terrorist attacks. In addition, in the future there is likely to be Russian nukes placed in Syria as a bargaining chip for the US nukes in Turkey.

MiG-29K inside Kuznetsov hanger.

Manpads have been a threat to the aircrafts and it was already supplied to the moderate terrorists, now it is being handed over more officially…to counter the VKS and SyAAF.

Is there any chance for the Stingers or such to make way to Syria in this new batch or just the Igla variants?

There were photos of S-5 rocket remains from the attack- which would suggest Syrian forces, as Russian helicopters only use 80mm rockets these days.
On the other hand they mayhave been rockets unrelated to the attack, twitter evidence is pretty crap.

That was from Libya, but Syria too had several of the airbases run over by the Jihadist with access to these rocket pods.

Russia needs to try harder and persuade the Chinese to send few squadrons of Su-XX/J-10 and A-50s so that they can patrol the Syrian airspace to look for Jihadi aircrafts. In addition the Chinese can send gunships which would be of great help for the ground units. It would also be a good combat experience for Chinese military.

Already the Chinese, Iranians and Russians have been doing great deal of work to help Syria in non-military areas, but there need to be more direct military support from China (to take some pressure off VKS) so that the jihadist can be crushed at the earliest.

The Jihadi supporters plan has always been to prolong the war, they have been talking about 10 years of war even in 2014. But its likely to get compressed thanks to Russia.
Few quotes from that article. 29 April 2014.

After being the only country in the region that was self-sufficient in food production, Syria has become a net importer of wheat. Before the uprising, Syria had a strategic wheat reserve of about 3.5 million tons, equal to one year’s consumption, and mostly stored in areas that are now outside the regime’s control. In 2013, the government is reported to have imported about 2.4 million tons of wheat.

More significantly, the Assad regime has survived because of the aid that it has received from Iran and Russia. In May 2013, Iran signed an agreement with Assad to supply Damascus with $ 3.6 billion in oil. The agreement stipulates that the Syrian government will have to pay back the cost of the Iranian oil loans through Iranian investments in Syria, details of which have not been specified.

This oil deal was part of a package to extend Iranian aid to Assad’s regime which is Iran’s only regional ally. In addition to the $3.6 billion aid in oil, another $1 billion credit line to Damascus has already been extended. Moreover, Iran had previously signed a free trade deal that granted Syrian exports as low as 4 percent customs tariff.

These moves have been taken to enable Syrian authorities to buy Iranian power-generating products and other goods in the framework of a barter arrangement. In addition, in January 2013, when the Syrian prime minister visited Tehran, Iran reportedly deposited $500 million in Syria’s central bank.

International sanctions, including those from the United States and Europe, have intensified on Assad’s regime. As a result, Damascus has become short of diesel and fuel for its army and for the economy. Iran has been attempting to negate international sanctions by supplying oil, fuel and petroleum products, as well as military and intelligence support.

According to the then deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Qadri Jamil, in 2013, Iran, Russia, and China were propping up Syria’s economy, with $500 million a month in oil and extending credit lines.

Syria had an unlimited credit line with Tehran for food and oil-product imports. Ships “under the Russians flag” were delivering oil products to Syria’s government-controlled coast.

Another article on Russia, Iran & China’s role in helping Syria. June 27, 2013

Iran, Russia and China are propping up Syria’s war-ravaged economy, with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime doing all its business in rials, roubles and renminbi as it seeks to beat western sanctions, according to the country’s senior economics minister.

Syria’s three main allies are supporting international financial transactions, delivering $500m a month in oil and extending credit lines, Kadri Jamil, deputy prime minister for the economy, said in an interview with the Financial Times. He added that its allies would also soon help with a “counter-offensive” against what he called a foreign plot to sink the Syrian pound.

Mr Jamil’s combative remarks on the deepening economic crisis highlight a wider show of regime assurance, founded on recent military gains and a belief that its biggest international supporters remain solidly behind it.

“It’s not that bad to have behind you the Russians, the Chinese and Iranians,” Mr Jamil told the FT. “Those three countries are helping us politically, militarily – and also economically.”

Mr Jamil said Syria had an unlimited credit line with Tehran for food and oil-product imports. Damascus, he said, had also corrected its pre-crisis “mistake” of trading in western currencies and had switched transactions to Russian, Chinese and Iranian currencies instead.

“Now we have a straight line between the Syrian pound and those three currencies, and we have got out of the circle of euros and dollars,” he said.

The minister, who studied in Moscow and has been closely involved with the Assad regime’s discussions with the Kremlin during the conflict, said ships “under the flag of the Russians” were delivering oil products to Syria’s government-controlled coast, although he declined to give details.

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So there is likely to be a rocket launch in the next 6-12 months time. Wonder if they will invite the international media for that event like they did for one of the earlier launch.

Fresh off the news:
things are clearing up as to what happened when US and their allies bombed syrian soldiers.

1. 2 predators and 1 other unidentified drone were monitoring the SAA positions for 2 full days
2. on the 3rd day all the man made fortifications were bombed, a10’s followed up by destroying 2 t72’s, 1 t-55, a mobile AA battery, and other weapons
3. when the SAA started to retreat via foot, the 2 predator drones engaged via hellfire missiles
4. after an hour long bombing isis got a radio transmission that ” the friendlies cleared the area, move in now, backup is on the way” RU radio counter intelligence fixated messages from “isis” friends that were coordinating isis counter attack while the predators were still watching…

Thanks for posting it. Saw that in news feed also.
That attack on the SAA by the terrorists airpower was a very desperate move to save their buddy’s on ground (& the oil rich/field area of Deir-Ez-Zor) and we saw how desperate the US rep was at the UN. She was acting like a mad dog with a pre-meeting press-conference and then walking out of the meeting. Wonder if she is even a career diplomat.

But what I do really hate is the Russian way of putting out things very late and also the delayed response.
Other questions being why no Russian (& Syrian) aircraft entered the scene to engage the aircrafts supporting the terrorists.
There was also a repetition we saw during the Georgian conflict. In that case, the US “hotline” was not working as it was a weekend and in this case the so-called “hotline” was not recieved by the muricans and the stupid Russians wasted time follwoing the “rules” by first most likely trying the “deconflicting” line rather than sending aircrafts to the scene (if at all there was any spare aircraft).

There is no other solution to stop the airforces from supporting the terrorists than to increasing the fighters and AD units in Syria to engage these aircrafts/drones.

This sums up the coalition work in Syria.
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