Russian military intervention and aid to Syria #13

Isos wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Just seen some drone footage of a RuAF strike where the explosion is bright white followed by blue. Any idea what does that?

The video is at the end of this link, clear explosions start at about 43 secs in.

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/996354141772500993

Do you know what was hit ? It seems to be electricity but no explosion maybe EMP weapon. Or bad quality video with the red coulor being transformed into blue.

No there was an explosion, probably with a photoflash mixture and the light distortion makes it brighter than it really is. Normally photoflash mixtures were supposed to be a thing of the past.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

Isos wrote:

Do you know what was hit ? It seems to be electricity but no explosion maybe EMP weapon. Or bad quality video with the red coulor being transformed into blue.

No there was an explosion, probably with a photoflash mixture and the light distortion makes it brighter than it really is. Normally photoflash mixtures were supposed to be a thing of the past.

The row of buildings were claimed to be industrial units but look more like flats to me. There were 4 similar explosions in the video but the two I pointed out were the clearest. Could have been an electrical substation in the building but unlikely to have been 4. Given the amount of dust thrown up it must have taken a reasonable amount of explosive to achieve that, also all 4 seem to have been a similar size.

What is a 'photoflash' mixture and what was it developed to achieve?

"RUSSIAN WARSHIPS WITH KALIBR CRUISE MISSILES TO BE PERMANENTLY ON DUTY IN MEDITERRANEAN: PUTIN."

https://southfront.org/russian-warships-with-kalibr-cruise-missiles-to-be-permanently-on-duty-in-mediterranean-putin/



"SYRIAN ARMY MAKES SIGNIFICANT GAINS IN AL-HAJAR AL-ASWAD SOUTH OF DAMASCUS (MAP, VIDEO)."





"RUSSIAN, TURKISH AND IRANIAN FORCES WILL OPEN KEY HIGHWAY IN IDLIB GOVERNORATE – REPORT."



https://southfront.org/russian-turkish-and-iranian-forces-will-open-key-highway-in-idlib-governorate-report/



"TIGER FORCES MAY LAUNCH NEW MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST MILITANTS AROUND ALEPPO CITY."


https://southfront.org/tiger-forces-may-launch-new-military-operation-against-militants-around-aleppo-city/

Isos wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Unusual flight underway. This An-124 first flew to Kaliningrad, was quickly turned round back to Russia where it had what looked like a refuelling/change crew stop, then off again.


Air Force Freak
‏ @AlRFORCEFREAK
5h5 hours ago

Update: #RUAF An-124 82035 continues from Mozdok to #Latakia. Airlifting something big and heavy from Kaliningrad to Syria

Kaliningrad is full of weapons. They probably took the oldest stocks for Syrian army like MRLS rockets or tank shells ...

Second An-124 flight has now landed in Syria and a third flight is now on its way to Kaliningrad. Looks like a big airlift of something needed sooner rather than wait for a ship trip.

Thanks Garry, not sure why they would use them on a building.

Meanwhile, a nasty shock for some

@badly_xeroxed
6h6 hours ago

#FSA Jaysh al-Nasr Anti-Armor Battalion Commander Lieutenant Eyad Abu al-Majd: #Assad regime Kornet #ATGM systems have been updated by #Russia, improving the range from 5,500 m to 10,000 m, and are now able to fire 2 missiles together


Jakub Janovsky
‏ @Rebel44CZ
6h6 hours ago

Jakub Janovsky Retweeted ‎كودي

Sounds like Russia might have deployed in Syria Kornet-D (which is using 9M133 Kornet-EM missiles) or supplied regime with it.

Range: 10km
It can launch a salvo of 2 missiles less than a second apart, either at a single target or at two different targets simultaneously.

Qalaat Al Mudiq
‏ @QalaatAlMudiq
5h5 hours ago

N.-NW. #Hama: several incidents suggest #Russia supplied Regime w/ most modern version of #Kornet #ATGM (range up to 10 km). 12 killed past 2 days: 8 civilians (left) & 4 Jaish Izza fighters (right). https://www.enabbaladi.net/archives/229129

‏ @FlagsAswed
3h hours ago
Mitsubishi L200 & another van from +7km out, struck by regime ATGM Latakia .

Thanks Garry.

Meanwhile the third An-124 should have landed in Latakia by now. Nothing about a 4th flight heading to Kaliningrad so maybe its job done.

Vann7 wrote:Some sources claim the KA-52 was shotdown by a manpad..


The head of Russian generals needs to roll ,literary should be shot in public ,  if this information is confirmed
and later found, the hellicopters did not have Counter Electronics warfare equipment .
and if they had.. then it means Russia EW sucks big time... or it wasn't a manpad at all..
or some kind of attacks by NATO special forces with Energy weapons or Railguns.

railguns? seriously?

Another good piece of analysis from Mercouris. Thus one regarding the Netanyahu trip to Moscow and meeting w/ Putin on May 9th. Have to say that, too me, his take makes the most sense out of what I've seen so far. I had some of the same notions that he does in regard to it, albeit cruder and less fleshed-out. It's quite a long piece, so I'm not going to paste all the text in here.

Moscow for Victory Day: why did Putin invite him?
Putin’s invitation to Netanyahu was diplomacy not surrender at a time when the Middle East is on fire and war with Iran may be coming

http://theduran.com/netanyahu-moscow-victory-day-why-putin-invite/

BKP wrote:Another good piece of analysis from Mercouris. Thus one regarding the Netanyahu trip to Moscow and meeting w/ Putin on May 9th. Have to say that, too me, his take makes the most sense out of what I've seen so far. I had some of the same notions that he does in regard to it, albeit cruder and less fleshed-out. It's quite a long piece, so I'm not going to paste all the text in here.

Moscow for Victory Day: why did Putin invite him?
Putin’s invitation to Netanyahu was diplomacy not surrender at a time when the Middle East is on fire and war with Iran may be coming

http://theduran.com/netanyahu-moscow-victory-day-why-putin-invite/

Agreed, its clearly a case of Putin biting his tongue and swallowing his disgust in the sake for the bigger picture. He's a cool operator who has demonstrated this behavior time and time again in the face of repeated US/EU manufactured crises, so why should anyone be surprised now? He's not an adolescent who seeks immediate gratification for every slight, both real and imagined. He's a chessplayer and knows taht having a public hissy fit and shooting down US/HATO warplanes is a no-win situation that will only de-rail his plans. If immature power-junky fan-bois don't understand the game and how it is played then that is their problem....

The vote of the UN Human Rights Council is a clear measure of how many friends have Israel in the World today.

Of all these countries only the United States and Australia voted in favor of Israel, after a call of the US to do it.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/MembersByGroup.aspx

It is amazing that Netanyahu accepted to be to the left, after the Serbian president. He wanted the picture for propaganda purposes no matter what is the cost.

No-one believes the zionists.

Two raptor boat deployed in syria

https://mobile.twitter.com/WaelAlRussi/status/998224952527646720

Is it possible to post from twitter like we post a video from youtube here so that the post is showed without the need to quote ? Specially for the images so they can be shared here directly without using the host an image button and upload and .. you know ?

Isos wrote:Two raptor boat deployed in syria

https://mobile.twitter.com/WaelAlRussi/status/998224952527646720

Is it possible to post from twitter like we post a video from youtube here so that the post is showed without the need to quote ? Specially for the images so they can be shared here directly without using the host an image button and upload and .. you know ?

Just copy location of image from Twitter and post is as standard image, works the same

A new drone Attack on Russia military base.. but even though it was intercepted , they report it came
close to the base..  

https://www.rt.com/news/427360-russia-downs-drone-syria-airbase/


If Russia allows a single drone to come anywhere close to the base , i consider that a monumental failure.
If that drone was full of lethal chemical weapon , it will have spread through the entire base.. Some heads
needs to be fired in Russia military , they need to identify the place drones comes , with tower bases of
Observations and and shot the drones withing seconds they are launched in the air.. allowing a terrorist/NATO
drone to come close to the Russian base is a failure.. If this was an attack of 50 to 100 hundred of kamikazi drones , *which NATO can easily provide**.. they will have penetrated the Russian base and killed soldiers..


mark my words.. This attacks will continue ,for the only reason that there is no negative consequences for the people behind this attacks.. Russian enemies.., they testing Russian air defenses and will continue the provocations and until The idiot President Putin don't see Russian blood in the dozens in their military base in Syria with planes destroyed , in a major humiliation nation wide ,the monkey President as always will do nothing to reinforce the security of its soldiers.. The place from where the drones comes needs to be flattened completely by heavy Foab bombs.. and terrorist needs to suffer major loses of territory too near the base.. Putin can just sit down and wait its enemies to keep trying and trying because eventually they will do it. Just a massive attack will do the job.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805211064662354-air-defences-take-out-drone/

Another drone interception happened today by the russian air defence force in Hmeimim airbase.

GarryB wrote:

Thanks Garry, not sure why they would use them on a building.

They wouldn't.

It was designed to produce intense white light for photographic purposes... it would likely not do any physical damage to a structure except physical impact.

I rather suspect it was just an optical effect of the type of explosive being used...

With some ammo I sometimes found I could see a blue flame coming from my chinese AKM firing in low light conditions... it was sort of bunsen burner blue... which suggests a specific temperature it was burning at to me... perhaps it was the same with this explosive... a specific temperature generated a specific light flash...

Not a light expert.

Some photographs show the tips of helicopter rotor blades glowing when there is not fire or explosion there either... a sort of halo.

Although not likely the case but when I was in forces any night sight we had were to be kept covered during the day because bright light could damage the sight now if day light could damage night sights I would imagine that light of this intensity could easily damage enemy night sights and another thing if flares were going to be used we were told not to use night sights due to eye damage also told not to look at the moon using them lol. So double damage could be done one to the sights and another to your own sight (eye balls) lol. Although unlikely done for this reason in this case.

Hmeimim, Latakia, Syria.
"Measures for insurance of information security"
On poster:
"No
Only with buttons"
Allowed models, allegedly, on last 2 photos.

https://twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/998935136996642816

^^ What magic is there in "buttons"? Why is the information on a captured flip phone more secure than that found on a smart phone?

Can't remember another member of the Syrian Express having to be towed home. Think this was one of the merchant ships that Russia bought cheap at the start of the operation.

Yörük Işık
‏Verified account @YorukIsik

Back from Tartus Syria but Broken Down: #ВМФ Project 733S, Okhtenskiy class rescue tug BSF #ЧФ SB-5 towed
#ВМФ #ВФ Auxiliary Fleet cargo vessel Kyzyl-60 through BlackSea-bound Bosphorus. #ВФ Kyzyl-60 is not under its own power.

Considering how hard they have been riding them I am surprised they lasted this long

calm wrote:Hmeimim, Latakia, Syria.
"Measures for insurance of information security"
On poster:
"No
Only with buttons"
Allowed models, allegedly, on last 2 photos.

https://twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/998935136996642816

I'd be more worried by the presence of "pro's" around the base premises even posing for pictures. Yes I am talking about the two women.