Syrian War: News #18

GarryB wrote:The question is... when this western attack comes... and claims it will be bigger... one has to ask are they prepared to be seen as fools when 2/3rds get shot down? Or will they target air defence systems this time... and will they limit themselves to Syrian air defence systems or will they go for Russian ones too?

I suspected the naval exercises in the Med are intended to extend the SAM range of coverage as a sort of early defence layer, but those ships also have plenty of anti ship and anti sub and anti aircraft missiles, so could they be deployed to push back western launch platforms to allow longer periods of warning and engagement?

And also potentially engage launch platforms if they launch too many missiles for the air defence forces to handle?

If Russian assets are going to contribute to the defence this time a single Su-35 could be armed with 12 air to air missiles perfectly capable of each bringing down a cruise missile no matter how low it flys.

Its radar and IRST could be used to detect and track targets that could be passed on to ground based missile systems.

Obviously it also adds the dimension that over zealous air defence forces could accidentally shoot down a friendly...

I am sure they know what they are doing...

Isos wrote:Syrian airforce hits targets near Al-Tanf.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809151068055507-syrian-army-strike-militants-al-tanf/

Isos wrote:https://sputniknews.com/russia/201809171068089390-putin-erdogan-syria-sochi/

So no operation in Idlib. They have reached an agreement with Erdogan.

Does anyone know what is the agreement ? It is suspicious that russians stoped it.

Putin said that they agreed with Turkey to create a demilitarised zone of 15-20 kilometres wide between rebels and Syrian government forces by 15 of October.

Russian and Turkish forces will patrol the demilitarised zone. Radical rebel groups, including Al-Nusra Front, will withdraw from the zone, and heavy weapons held by Syrian rebels in Idlib city should be handed over by October 10.

This approach, Putin said, is supported by the Syrian government of Bashar Al-Assad.

Turkey's president Erdogan said that his country will carry out coordinated patrols in the demilitarised zone in Idlib with the Russians.

Isos wrote:https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809171068111578-Missiles-Fired-Syrian-Army-Latakia/


@johninmk Why ?

JohninMK wrote:

Isos wrote:https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809171068111578-Missiles-Fired-Syrian-Army-Latakia/


@johninmk Why ?

Your guess is as good as mine. This guy WithinSyria is one I monitor. He said a couple of moments ago that the anti air action has now lasted 40 mins against a normal IAF action of 15 mins.

Targets by him and others have been described as SAA bases and a factory. Who knows?

EDIT

Videos at this link, seems quiet now.

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1041773938735505409

Isos wrote:

Anyway, there are rumors of s-400 fire in Syria against a big Israeli attack.

Isos wrote:

^^ i was asking about the picture you posted above.

Another question for you, what was the twitter account that you used to put here ? It was a guy from damascus pro-SAA. He was even quote by sputnik. Wahel i think was is name or something like that.

miketheterrible wrote:This is rather serious. If Russia doesn't respond, Putin can be impeached as his ratings are dropping as is.

This is actually an act of war. Major one too.

Neutrality wrote:There are already twitter accounts trying to spin this as a blue-on-blue from Russia itself or the SyAA.

I call bullshit on this one and if this turns out to be Israel or France then a response must follow. I don't know which response specifically and I don't want lives go to waste but this is beyond fucked up.