Russian military intervention and aid to Syria #4

KoTeMoRe wrote:

franco wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

franco wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:

franco wrote:Apparently the ASF now has 69 aircraft in Syria. Newcomers include 8 more Su-34 plus some Su-27SM3's. Does anyone have an exact count?

I understood that the total planes participating was indeed 69 including those who operate through Iran.

So in fact only 12 more Su27 family planes were brought in for the VKS and they're at Krymsk.

Link below, a flight could be either 2 or 4.

http://tass.ru/en/defense/838162

Are the 69 aircraft those flying over Syria or those based there?

The Su-34 and 27SM3 flying out of Russia would have to go through Turkish or Bulgarian airspace. Not happening...
Also the bomber fleet is 14 Tu-22M3, 5 Tu-160 and 6 Tu-95MS out of Russia.

Look at the page before, you have break down of forces.

The 12 new Su27 family have to be used from Krymsk according to the Russians themselves.

max steel wrote:HAHAH WELL FOXTROTALPHA is one of the many US military enthusiast running site/blog on internet showing how Russian is junk and everything is all great about our Empire of Chaos.

JohninMK wrote:

max steel wrote:HAHAH WELL FOXTROTALPHA is one of the many US military enthusiast running site/blog on internet showing how Russian is junk and everything is all great about our Empire of Chaos.

I find the actual topics they run quite interesting but I seldom read the comments.

Another interesting site and a current thread is http://warisboring.com/articles/french-jets-head-to-an-old-stomping-ground-for-one-last-fight/

max steel wrote:



Very fake. Not even a single PC is on in front of the officers, except maybe the one controlling the pre-prepared stuff on the big screen
Putin is struggling to stay awake . Putin's yawning was noted by all observers.

Solncepek wrote:image x2

CyberBerkut wrote:21.11.2015  SAMs for Qatar. The Poles supply ISIS militants with Ukrainian weapons

CyberBerkut keeps on sorting the emails of the head of Polish arms company "Level 11" Paul Witold Kzhykovsky. In October we partially published some information obtained from them.
Looking through the Kzhykovsky's correspondence with the Vice-president of "Level 11" Vasily Babytsky we paid attention to the letter from some Volodimir Kuruts.

Having googled for a while we found out that Volodymyr Yanovich Kuruts was an actual person. He works as the Counsellor for Trade and Economic Affairs in The Embassy of Ukraine to the State of Qatar.
The letter contains two applications which unveil the fact that Qatar Ministry of Defence was actively looking for the ways to procure SAM systems in September, 2015.
Evidently for this purpose the Qatar military delegation attended international exhibition "Arms and Security – 2015" which took place on September 22 – 27 in Kiev. Continue reading.

whir wrote:

Solncepek wrote:image x2

CyberBerkut wrote:21.11.2015  SAMs for Qatar. The Poles supply ISIS militants with Ukrainian weapons

CyberBerkut keeps on sorting the emails of the head of Polish arms company "Level 11" Paul Witold Kzhykovsky. In October we partially published some information obtained from them.
Looking through the Kzhykovsky's correspondence with the Vice-president of "Level 11" Vasily Babytsky we paid attention to the letter from some Volodimir Kuruts.

Having googled for a while we found out that Volodymyr Yanovich Kuruts was an actual person. He works as the Counsellor for Trade and Economic Affairs in The Embassy of Ukraine to the State of Qatar.
The letter contains two applications which unveil the fact that Qatar Ministry of Defence was actively looking for the ways to procure SAM systems in September, 2015.
Evidently for this purpose the Qatar military delegation attended international exhibition "Arms and Security – 2015" which took place on September 22 – 27 in Kiev. Continue reading.

max steel wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

max steel wrote:HAHAH WELL FOXTROTALPHA is one of the many US military enthusiast running site/blog on internet showing how Russian is junk and everything is all great about our Empire of Chaos.

I find the actual topics they run quite interesting but I seldom read the comments.

Another interesting site and a current thread is http://warisboring.com/articles/french-jets-head-to-an-old-stomping-ground-for-one-last-fight/

Medium's Blog War is Boring aka War on the rocks is again biased claptrap but there are some contributors among War is Boring Team posting sensible things too. Their article on PAK-FA was an example.

higurashihougi wrote:Litva's president claimed that the country won't join anti-IS alliance lead by Russia...

Well the hard truth is that Russia does not need the participation of Litva. Sorry Ms. President but it seems like Putin doesn't care.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/lithuania-will-not-join-anti-is-coalition-with-russia-president-538410.html

Neutrality wrote:

higurashihougi wrote:Litva's president claimed that the country won't join anti-IS alliance lead by Russia...

Well the hard truth is that Russia does not need the participation of Litva. Sorry Ms. President but it seems like Putin doesn't care.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/lithuania-will-not-join-anti-is-coalition-with-russia-president-538410.html

Oh the tragedy! Now Russia will have to do without the invisible Lithuanian Air Force

sepheronx wrote:

Kimppis wrote:

max steel wrote:

Very fake. Not even a single PC is on in front of the officers, except maybe the one controlling the pre-prepared stuff on the big screen
Putin is struggling to stay awake . Putin's yawning was noted by all observers.

That footage is from the briefing, right? So they were supposed to watch that pre-prepared stuff on the big screen and that's it. I guess the higher-ups work elsewhere, so they don't need PCs there. And doesn't Putin always look like that?

@1:55 you will be able to see it.
Anyone who works on computers, dummy terminals, etc as a job, will know that such monitors have a back bezel in order to hide cabeling.  See picture.  Red is a protruding cable and the yellow is the bezel to hide cables.  Dell monitors in the 24 and 27 inch range meant for workstations have this for the clamp/arm extenders.  As well, more than likely these guys don't have a single workstation but using dummy terminals that connect to a mainframe.  For instance something like this: 

Not necessarily that unit but such thin clients/dummy terminals have mounting brackets for various placements, so more than likely it is on the side of the desk on the inside.

Thin clients don't need anything powerful or exceptional to run as the mainframe does most of the job.  In this case, the hard drive in them are usually a SD Card with enough space for the OS (Linux) and some applications like a hyperterminal for linux.

Rodinazombie wrote:

ShahryarHedayatiSHBA wrote:Tu-160 bombing raid

Seems like a huge waste of fuel, why not just fly from engels ovr iran/iraq and then return back the same way? Would be much shorter flight times.

Siempre_Leal wrote:Militarov, thanks for the post. Where have you been man?

Siempre_Leal wrote:Militarov, thanks for the post. Where have you been man?

Neutrality wrote:

higurashihougi wrote:Litva's president claimed that the country won't join anti-IS alliance lead by Russia...

Well the hard truth is that Russia does not need the participation of Litva. Sorry Ms. President but it seems like Putin doesn't care.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/lithuania-will-not-join-anti-is-coalition-with-russia-president-538410.html

Oh the tragedy! Now Russia will have to do without the invisible Lithuanian Air Force

Bolt wrote:

Neutrality wrote:

higurashihougi wrote:Litva's president claimed that the country won't join anti-IS alliance lead by Russia...

Well the hard truth is that Russia does not need the participation of Litva. Sorry Ms. President but it seems like Putin doesn't care.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/lithuania-will-not-join-anti-is-coalition-with-russia-president-538410.html

Oh the tragedy! Now Russia will have to do without the invisible Lithuanian Air Force

Hey, buddy! Watch your tongue! We have one L-39 and one Spartan! An several Mi-8!!
Russia just lost a big possible ally!



bahhahahaha, yes, our fucking president is that dumb.