If you watch the video carefully at around 0:30 mark, there are not 2 but at least 4, maybe 5-6 (or more) bombs hit the ground to the north. Unless target was open crop field, bombing was unimpressive.

Judging by smoke and wind direction, 1st and 2nd parts of the video are likely to be just north of the bombed area in the 3rd part.

so you make opinion based on video. who knows what the purpose for releasing the video. As i predicted there are low flying choppers flying around incase some of planes get down for pilot rescue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-say-russia-targets-them-rather-than-isis.html
The town was paralyzed with terror, he said, as people hid in shelters and orchards. The local authorities called a curfew to keep people off the streets. Mr. Taha said that government helicopters swooped in on the heels of the Russian planes, dropping barrel bomb
The strikes, he said, hit less than a half-mile from his house. “The strikes were so accurate, and the sound was like an earthquake,” he said, adding that he had spotted two planes. “The missiles exploded with black smoke and a bad smell.”

Without at all suggesting that no effort has been made, the Russians have been in theatre for days with very little intelligence gathering to draw on. .

Russia is in Syria for decades they have very good intelligence and judgement. it’s time for west to switch sides . Otherwise low oil price and expensive wars will bring the result anyway.

IT is very easy to enter into a conflict and very difficult to exit out of it as recent operation in Afghanistan and Iraq has shown , what was suppose to be a quick short war got into long drawn out affair.

those operations were conducted by relying on dubious allies and questionable strategy. remember tora-bora. no reliable people to close the routes not knowing that afghans can open the escape routes to highest bidder at the time.

Russians must have a EXIT STRATEGY before they go into it , else this might be a long drawn out affair although with so many regional players its scope might vary

This war will be highly profitable for Russia and Russia is got to train its soldiers and systems for free. in next 12 month an extra 2.5m bbl a day oil coming to market from Iran/Irak.
Either Saudi starts war now to stop it or wait until one trick pony entire middlestern markets completely crushed.
I will even predict that Russia may create a 21s century version of Israel with manageable secure borders and 100% loyal population. see the first strikes were done on moderates not on ISIS.

Not to play devils advocate here, well ok I am. But exactly how will a few hellducks assure Assad’s stability when there has been hundreds of aircraft from the US, several Gulf nations, etc. bombing ISIS and a few RuAF aircraft going to save the day for Assad?

First there are about 32 strike aircraft and there is a lot more ground based firepower and attack chopper . than you add Syrian-Iraki-Iran airforce. so its a lot more aircrafts at short distance from battlefield. that’s why Iraki government so fast jump into this new coalition as they believe in Russian fire power and intelligence capabilities that will not be corrupted/influenced by any regional countries.

there is no such thing as hundreds of coalition aircrafts involved and most of them not necessary drop bombs so its miss sorties.

Yes you are spinning it despite Putin stating that Russian air power and ground troops will not be involved in combat. What part of “no combat” don’t you understand? Yes Putin has sanctioned the deployment and made the chess move, but he won’t be willing to have the body bags coming home from involvement in direct combat. No MLRS, no artillery strikes, and no air power strikes. Think of the consequences after making the UN statement and an aircraft is lost over IS or rebel held territory either through malfunction or shoot down?

Just wait a bit. That targets of opportunity will be bombed. in such away that no chance of capture of pilot. There several supply ships coming . it takes couple of weeks to put all munition at place. No public statements will change fact on ground.

Putin says there will be no Russian air strikes unless approved by the UN in other words approved by America.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34387433

Don’t bring every political statement here. Russia only consider a legal airstrike as an airstrike. I still think majority of strikes will be done with long range MLRS and artillery as they more effective. airplanes make too much noise and slow.

Russia is loser of cold war. As a loser, like Germany and Japan, Russia has no right to bomb. Russia needs permission from the US to bomb. The US will never approve of that.

Germany and Japan are clear loser with foreign troops occupying and dysfunctional economic and social systems. Almost complete dependence on foreign resources and that include labor working in foreign factories for them. Russia shed the unwanted part of business.