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Russia Likely To Redeploy Its Bombers To Iran's Hamadan AirBase
Our Bureau01:59 PM, September 10, 2016918 viewsRussian bombers take off from Iranian Hamedan air base Russian bombers take off from Iranian Hamedan air base - A +
Russia and Iran are currently negotiating to redeploy Russian bombers to the Iran’s Hamadan airbase for resuming their counter terrorism missions in Syria.
Russian planes first flew to the Iranian airstrip in August but now both countries are allegedly planning to adjust the base for the possible deployment, the Sputnik News reported Saturday. It will take a week because Antonov An-124 Ruslan and Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifters will have to make dozens of flights to prepare Hamadan to host Russian bombers, Sukhoi Su-34s and Tupolev Tu-22M3s, an officials said.
Russia will apparently have to deploy land-based power-driven aircraft beacons, radio communications sets, fuel servicing trucks, electrical ground power units, avionics control and preflight systems and other land-based equipment.
"The major step is to deploy enough air-launched weapons and loaders needed to load airborne weapons aboard the planes," the official noted. There is no need to construct special hangars for the planes since weather conditions at the base are good. If need be, these facilities could be erected in one to two weeks.
Russian planes carried out several counterterrorism missions in Syria from Hamadan in mid-August. The deployment lasted approximately a week and was the first of its kind in Iran's modern history.
"Any means, including the redeployment of the Russian Aerospace Forces to Hamadan, are good for counterterrorism." Igor Zotov, a member of the Russian State Duma's Defense Committee said.
"If Russia returns to the Iranian base, I think it will be for the best.
Russia Likely To Redeploy Its Bombers To Iran's Hamadan AirBase
Our Bureau01:59 PM, September 10, 2016918 viewsRussian bombers take off from Iranian Hamedan air base Russian bombers take off from Iranian Hamedan air base - A +
Russia and Iran are currently negotiating to redeploy Russian bombers to the Iran’s Hamadan airbase for resuming their counter terrorism missions in Syria.
Russian planes first flew to the Iranian airstrip in August but now both countries are allegedly planning to adjust the base for the possible deployment, the Sputnik News reported Saturday. It will take a week because Antonov An-124 Ruslan and Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifters will have to make dozens of flights to prepare Hamadan to host Russian bombers, Sukhoi Su-34s and Tupolev Tu-22M3s, an officials said.
Russia will apparently have to deploy land-based power-driven aircraft beacons, radio communications sets, fuel servicing trucks, electrical ground power units, avionics control and preflight systems and other land-based equipment.
"The major step is to deploy enough air-launched weapons and loaders needed to load airborne weapons aboard the planes," the official noted. There is no need to construct special hangars for the planes since weather conditions at the base are good. If need be, these facilities could be erected in one to two weeks.
Russian planes carried out several counterterrorism missions in Syria from Hamadan in mid-August. The deployment lasted approximately a week and was the first of its kind in Iran's modern history.
"Any means, including the redeployment of the Russian Aerospace Forces to Hamadan, are good for counterterrorism." Igor Zotov, a member of the Russian State Duma's Defense Committee said.
"If Russia returns to the Iranian base, I think it will be for the best.
Have you checked the date of the news
The bombers were deployed and left the iranian base in less then a week , Reportedly a faction of Iran political party did not want any 3rd party aircraft deployed in their country
Austin wrote:
All I stated was Israel were hand in glove with Saudi to take out Assad regime , Assad did not do any harm to either of these two countries but was a victim of Shia-Sunni Conflict and Israel is clearly supporting the Sunni Ummah for its own reason.
Israel Air Force would go deep inside Syrian airforce bomb Syrian Arms Depot and Critical Infrastructure of SAA and would simply call as Israel proactive action to prevent these arms falling into arms of Hezbollah. Ofcourse the real intention was to handicap the SAA fight against Saudi supported IS.
Put it simply Israel Airforce was Team B of Saudi because it could just bomb SAA with impunity and get away by saying it was against Hezbollah , when Syrian Airforce tried to stop , its fighter jets were either downed by Israel Airforce or its Patriot Batteries inside Syrias own territory !
It was blatant aggression by Israel Airforce but they just got away because hey their were Israel and fighting against terrorism
Come Russian Intervention in Syria all these Bombing with Impunity against SAA dissapeared overnight , Suddenly it seems Assad is not providing arms to Hezb or what ever Israel claimed and its policy changed over night.
Any one can draw their own conclusion
Russian intervention has nothing/zero/zilch to do with Israel`s hesitation in bombing Syia if there is any at all. In fact there is coordination between Israeli and Russian air forces in ensuring the Hezbollah doesnt acquire arms that could damage Israel.
Israel has continued to bomb Syria if and when it has deemed necessary.
Also, to say that Israel has supported ISIS is also stretching it too far. It has no dog in this fight and would be happy to see Shia Sunni fight go on forever rather than seeing one side win. So no logic in supporting one murderous horde against the other. https://warisboring.com/despite-russian ... .92e6jxb9m
Despite Russian Warplanes in the Sky, Israel Keeps Bombing Syria
And since the Russian build-up in Syria, Israel has carried out perhaps four substantial air strikes. Three strikes were in the Qalamoun region which spans across Syria’s porous frontier with Lebanon.
There was no arms sale Syria was doing to hezbollah , The hezb were fighting against IS in Syria.
Israel always uses the alibi of stopping arms received by Hizb as way to Strike SAA. In Syrian conflict Israel is just a B Team of Saudi and has fully supported Saudi in Syria.
Compared to strikes earlier almost every week deep inside syria now the strike is just limited to border areas and far and few in between.
Israel has just been a Porxy Saudi Airforce , Sad Truth but Truth Infact.
#Iraq troops to enter #ISIS held city of #Mosul in 'matter of hours,' counter-terrorism chief says @CNNI http://cnn.it/2fmwwgC #CNN
they can't rush into mosul with their armor. the lead elements will get blown to bits.
they are going to have to send in infantry and slowly infiltrate. planes and choppers must be overhead to scout and bomb obvious dug in positions.
as infantry and air assets scout and clear, the armor can safely approach and start blazing with their cannons.
but what they can't do is to allow isis to man their kornets with out getting shot at by infantry and air assets. they must keep isis's heads down. they can't let isis move in behind them.
infantry and air assets will be essential in this fight especially to cover armor's flanks.
the golden brigade should know this by now, hopefully.
interesting idea rather than just vanilla t90 which desert hawks have moved to aleppo. i have seen a video of two t72 going through the Jobar ruins and the drivers were pro league gamer class, even driving inside ruined buildings and emerging from other side....would work well in east aleppo
ghouta and daraa has seen wholesale killing of jihadis this past week..close to 150 is the body count
Izat Savetheplanet @AbuHantala Oct 30
This man, if assigned to Aleppo, could split east Aleppo into many pieces, even through Tariq Al-Bab lol. Amazing record.
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Izat Savetheplanet @AbuHantala Oct 30
For some reason, his brigade has never been out of Damascus like many other certain 4th and Republican Guard brigades.
agitpapa Retweeted
Izat Savetheplanet @AbuHantala Oct 30
His brigade is extremely skilled in urban fighting and they've an abundance of caged T72 tanks and caged bulldozers.
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Izat Savetheplanet @AbuHantala Oct 30
For those of you who dont know,the commander leading theW.Ghouta operations was the same mastermind behind splitting Muaddamiyah from Daraya
majority of suicide bombers on vbied from incoming reports are apparently Chinese Uighurs, who call themselves 'turkestanis' and look like this
often mistaken for turks or CAR uzbeks or turkmen when dead, these uighurs are extremely receptive to propaganda spewed by their Saudi mentors & ringleaders like al-Muhaysini (Idlib) who manage localized theatres in Syria. Long internment in Chinese gulag seems to have robbed them of their capacity to judge and discrminate between real and fake, and fall for rabble rousers who use them as dispensible canon fodder.
day before yesterday the SAA and allies targeted a VBIED at its gathering point destroying and killing over 60 terrorists around it, it happened the 1070 complex, a second wave of terrorists trying to recover the KIA bodies got hit and were killed. There is no reliable count for the terrorist's losses, based on the 3 days it must be on the mid hundreds KIA and 2-3X more in WIA.
The situation in western Aleppo is slowly reversing, still early to say anything but the recent gains in al Assad district (latest info accounted to 70% under the SAA and allies) may have a lasting impact on this frontline. SAA and allies reinforcements continue to arrive near this battle zone, any major terrorist collapse may open up new opportunities for deeper penetration on enemy's held territory.
a saudi diplomat made fun of egypt's al-sisi in the opening of some muslim conference. again insults are going back and forth on social media and other media outlets. looks like the rift that was talked about weeks ago between the two will grow.
good news i would say.
bunker = orphanage ammo = toys for besieged children of Aleppo barracks = hospital red paint = blood picture of girl = girl wahhabi cleric = last doctor of Aleppo jihadist = white helmet
Good chance to saa to enter the jihidis main adda khan touman from behind and take icarda and the western highway also. zhukov would do that...trap another pocket and squeeze
Saudis may have bankrolled the egypt mistrals hoping to use in gcc projects like yemen. now egypt said no can do hence the fury at the darker hued miskeen
For Syria, Tal Afar and Al Bukamal are the places to watch. The U.S. has intended to relocate their paid head-choppers from cities lost in Iraq to eastern Syria. SAA - although limited in resources - is fully aware of the scheming. That means Russia is fully aware.
The Iraqi PMUs are critical both to cutting off the Hwy. 47/Tal Afar escape path, and to continue moving up the Euphrates smoking out ISIS along the way - hopefully right up to and in Al Bukamal (maybe beyond). The faster Mosul falls, the faster Iraqi resources will be free to move to the Euphrates campaign. With any luck, Syria will have plenty of free resources in a few months to move east.
People in Mosul say the hard-core senior ISIS have already fled (to Syria) and there's mostly only child solders and local ISIS running around the city, with the local ISIS hiding most of the time. That would make Mosul a push-over, but it all depends on how many ISIS survive battles in the areas surrounding Mosul and fall back to the city itself.
Over 50 terrorists killed and many more wounded at another failed attempt to take an abandoned military base, SW of Sheikh Miskin. This is probably their 5th attempt but by far the bloodiest.
It opens an opportunity for the SAA to advance toward Ibtaa, this city once tried to reconcile by Al Qaeda terrorists did not allow the elders to implement it, maybe this is ripe to do it now.
Photos are impressive. https://twitter.com/maytham956/status/7 ... 4286032898
As per gossip and twitter chatter, Russia has ceased bombing of Aleppo because they want to capture alive the 100-200 or so 'western' special forces trapped there and capture them alive and use them for leverage, and as they are likely armed with portable back pack miniature nuclear devices which they are carrying, and are worth more alive than dead ..
Russia is not 100% truthful with Syria, they know what's trapped there. It is Syria's call Syria should go ahead and kill the whole bloody lot there , blow everything to smithereens. Aleppo is costing Syria thousands of lives , no other country would tolerate that not even Russia, remember the way Russia handled Grozny ?
Just read that the Greeks saw a missile lock from a S-300 on two Turkish jets flying into Syria, they were coming in to bomb, but turned around after the lock.
The story behind the recent IS purge in Mosul which resulted in death of 800-1200 IS.
When the USA invaded Iraq they bribed the Iraqi Generals to run away.. today so many of them live in Florida and Washington. And thus Iraqi defenses crumbled so easily.. They did the same thing when IS attacked Iraq. And they tried to do the same thing with IS now but the coup plotters were fond out and executed..
here's what happened.
USA tried to do an op Iraqi freedom with ISIS but the leaders were found out and a few hundred of the plotters executed. Obama's plans to take Mosul by November went up in flames and is now buried.
And the Iraqis are acting as Mad Max now ..
Caliphate losses on fragmented data from the Kurdish, Iraqi and US sources in the order of 800-1200 dead and wounded. The prisoners were very few.
Austin wrote:New Video: Syrian T-90 used in West Aleppo against Nusra jihadis , Note the heavy firing
why are the Syrian T-90s fighting with open hatch ?
seems they do not learn from past and keep making expensive mistakes.
Past clips have shown how T-90 with open hatch in aleppo was targeted by TOW and it resulted in damage to tank injuries to tank operator.
Austin wrote:New Video: Syrian T-90 used in West Aleppo against Nusra jihadis , Note the heavy firing
why are the Syrian T-90s fighting with open hatch ?
seems they do not learn from past and keep making expensive mistakes.
Past clips have shown how T-90 with open hatch in aleppo was targeted by TOW and it resulted in damage to tank injuries to tank operator.
I didnt observe the hatch open may be just missed it but to me it seems they are fighting from a secured environment where chaces of ATGM attack are low. The fact that TV crew are running around filming stuff etc means counter fire is low.
Likely they are firing HE-FRAG/HE-AT round , T-90 can fire that out to 5 km to cause maximum damage to combatants and fortification , Probably also used in indirect fire.
open hatch means the explosion near hatch increases pressure inside the tank and increases chances of secondary explosion including hearing loss to tank operator in case the tank doesn't catch fire from primary explosion.
In last instance in aleppo of an open hatch on T-72/90, an explosion from a TOW didn't radically damage the tank but it knocked out the tank driver senseless for a brief bit and damaged tank internals and knocked out some sensors. In a high stakes war, this is a cavalier way of fighting a war with no care to protect assets and scarce resources.
Assad academy for military engineering in Aleppo comes under attack
For the sake of the victory of the Democrats in the presidential elections in the US, financial elite is ready for anything. They need a brilliant victory by 7 November. The defeat of Assad and Russia - that is their goal. Subsequent massacres and a humanitarian catastrophe they did not care.
Academy Assad has become the hot spot in the confrontation of Aleppo. The terrorists are trying to attack it from three sides - north, west and south.
October 29 battle for the academy last 14 hours.
Militants fired at the academy of all calibres - and used "Grad", and 152-mm shells, mortars. several suicide bombers were used to assault.
Terrorists use chemicals to attack. SAA deployed "Desert Hawks" there.
via ANNA news https://www.facebook.com/68344259837359 ... 945116057/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQE9XAZT3Yg [Russian]
Aleppo could be 'bombed into smithereens', warns John Kerry
US secretary of state says diplomatic situation in Syria is a ‘toxic cocktail’ as he revealed moves to persuade Moscow to stop bombing
John Kerry
John Kerry called the diplomatic situation in Syria a ‘toxic cocktail’. Photograph: EPA
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Monday 31 October 2016 Aleppo Syria's second city, is at risk of being “bombed into smithereens” by Russia unless a fresh ceasefire can be agreed with Vladimir Putin, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said.
But Kerry said he still believed a ceasefire could be agreed, and revealed proposals were still going back and forth between Moscow and the US.
Russia denied membership of UN human rights council
Speaking in London on Monday, he said the diplomatic process was delicate and “very dangerous” and its success or failure would come down to Moscow’s true priorities.
“We will see whether Russia has a greater desire to bomb Aleppo into smithereens”, claiming they are hitting terrorists, rather than the accept the reality that “there is an opposition there prepared to live by the ceasefire,” he told the Chatham House thinktank.
“This will determine to some degree where we go in Syria in the longer term.”
A ceasefire could be agreed, he said, if Russia halted its bombing campaign long enough to allow countries backing the legitimate Syrian opposition to persuade those forces in Aleppo to separate themselves from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the al-Qaida-linked group formerly known as the Nusra front.
Displaced Syrians carry their belongings out of Aleppo on the third day of a rebel offensive.
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Displaced Syrians carry their belongings out of Aleppo on the third day of a rebel offensive. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images
Kerry made his remarks as Russia sent naval reinforcements to the Mediterranean that western observers believe could be used for a fresh offensive on Aleppo.
As opposition forces attempted to break the siege of rebel-held eastern Aleppo with an assault heavily criticised by the United Nations, the Syrian government claimed that as many as 84 people had been killed and 280 wounded by opposition shelling over the past three days.
Russia claims it has not bombed the city for a fortnight, but military clashes have persisted throughout Aleppo. Moscow has said it will respond with all available means if necessary.
Kerry said he would work right up to the end of Barack Obama’s presidency to try to find a political solution to the Syrian problem, which he described as a contorted web.
He implied he did not believe that a perceived power vacuum in Washington in the weeks after the 8 November presidential election would give Russia a chance to capture eastern Aleppo, and so deliver a hammer blow to the Syrian opposition.
Kerry was unusually frank in admitting western diplomats had been unable to persuade the legitimate opposition not to fight alongside Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. If the militant group decided to attack the regime during a ceasefire, he said, “then what happens is the regular opposition gets swept up with them … and then all of a sudden your ceasefire starts to shred”.
Aleppo ceasefire at risk after Russia says all rebels can be eliminated
Bashar al-Assad, he said, also played a major role in the breakdown of ceasefires by bombing legitimate opposition forces while claiming to go after Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Islamic State (Isis). “So the opposition then get angry and say he is not showing good faith, because he is not, and it spirals downwards,” Kerry said.
Syria, he argued, was “a whole bunch of wars taking place at once in the same place”. It was “Kurd v Kurd, Kurd v Turkey, Iran and Saudi; you have got Turkey, Daesh [Isis], Persian Shia versus Arab Sunni, Sunni v Shia, a lot of people against Assad, you have the challenge of Shia Iraqi militia coming into Syria and then, of course, you have Hezbollah-supporting Assad. So this is is about as toxic a diplomatic cocktail I can think of.”
