I see bellingcat is in on the act saying the Russian mod is lying about where the airstrikes are happening and they are going to geolocate every single video. No doubt this will be picked up by all the news outlets.

Bellingcat is saying that of the videos made available by the MOD, few of them are located in areas controlled by ISIS. That doesn’t mean Russia isn’t striking ISIS, but it does mean that when a video is labeled “strike on ISIS” and it can be geolocated to an area solidly in control of the FSA, then yes, the MOD is not telling the truth.

It’s the Russian version of the CBU-105.

I’m no fan of the ‘Hellduck’, but God speed kickin’ ISIS butt:

*Syrian Rebels.
They haven’t actually struck any ISIS forces that can be corroborated by video or images.

I was looking at the use of AVMF strike planes for attacking smaller crafts like corvettes /missile boats which do not have SAM , what kind of weapons can the Su-24 employ against such craft during the cold war years ? such an encounter was probably likely in the Baltic region where there were a plethora of German/sweedih/Danish crafts.I was thinking that the LGB/ AS-7 and maybe as suggested by other posters the AS-12/AS-11 missiles might be employed.The Kh-31 and Kh-35 probably were not available during the cold war

Thanks

I’m interested in seeing the AVMF strike plans you found. Is there a way you can share those?

But since I’m only guessing, I would think it would be Kh-25s that would be employed.

Su-34s have arrived in Syria.

I’m going to link to this blog and The Aviationist, because I don’t know who posted first. So credit to both I guess.
http://spioenkop.blogspot.nl/2015/09/russias-participation-in-syrian-war-su.html
http://theaviationist.com/2015/09/29/su-34-have-arrived-in-syria/

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EDIT: I just realized this was posted on the previous page. Sorry about the repost. Just didn’t check in my excitement.

That is the biggest change yes, but there is more. 😉

Looks like the top side paint scheme is supposed to mimic that of the Su-27.

That is not correct.
The continuation of the SALT threaty is in Russias own best interest, as well as the rest of the world.

Russia need to reduce its NC inventory in order to save funding/cost the maintain and service much of the obsolete and old stock.
Russia has far more NC warheads and NC platform that they ever need.

That makes sense.

The CFE treaty was never ratified by Europe in first place Russia was the only one that kept with the treaty will it realised it was no point unilaterally adhering to it.

RS-26 ICBM is not a bone of contention for INF but the R-500 Cruise Missile of Iskander Series which American say has range greater than 500 km while the Russian say its just 490 km

As does this.

And thanks for the correction on the R-500. This may be (read: is) a question for the Missiles thread, but isn’t there a new Russian cruise missile that’s 2,500 km in range? And isn’t there a new MRBM that’s been tested at the limit of the INF treaty?

The reasoning I found from the mods/admins was that there were a lot of copyright infringement issues. People taking pictures that weren’t theirs and posting them without credit.

Which… I feel like is to be expected. I don’t know how the noise started, but the site managers didn’t want to deal with it. So they made The Mess and decided to ban the posting of pictures. Which is a death sentence before it’s even born.

I miss militaryphotos.net and for Russian pics, russiadefence works. But there’s a bit more of a slant. For instance, the “Situation in Ukraine/Crimea” photo/video thread on militarypotos has an analogue on russiadefence called “Donbass Liberation War Multimedia.”

Just a personal preference for neutrality. Pics and vids are still pretty good.

L-159s wouldn’t be a good investment. Right now Ukraine’s needs are more basic than air power. Plus, the amount of Buks, Strela-10s, and Tors in the separatist areas would put an end to the L-159’s effectiveness very quickly. Not to mention MANPADS. And the L-159 wouldn’t be as resilient and armored as Su-25s anyway.

I think that there’s some utility in Ukraine having a delivery system for guided, precision weapons. But their immediate needs are counter battery radars to pinpoint incoming artillery, more armored vehicles, and generally more manpower.