Syrian Air Defense Fires At Targets West Of Damascus
Syrian Air Defense Fires At Targets West Of Damascus.
Syrian Air Defense Fires At Targets West Of Damascus.
Confusion Over Damascus As Air Defense Activated, State Media Reports And Then Deletes Claims Of ‘Interceptions’.
Russia Refuses To Sell Hi-End Air Defense Systems To Syria After Netanyahu Visits Moscow.
Image by Vitaly V. Kuzmin The Russian government said that Syria air defense systems, supplied by Moscow, and ‘completely overhauled’ by the Kremlin’s technicians, shot down 70% of the 100 plus projectiles fired at Syrian chemical weapons facilities. The claims cannot be verified and are most likely highly inflated. Russian…
The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda is reporting this morning that both Russian land based and sea based anti aircraft forces in the Crimea are now operating in an “enhanced regime”. This report comes on the heels of the closing by the Ukraine yesterday of several large areas of airspace over…
MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. Russian anti-ballistic missile system has received a new long-range missile and is now capable of striking targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers, Almaz-Antey’s Chief Designer Pavel Sozinov told TASS on Thursday. “S-300V4 is equipped with a new long-range missile that is capable of…
After the shootdown of a Russian SU-24 in late 2015 by a Turkish F-16 at the Syrian, Turkish border, Russia ramped up air-defense capability at its Khmeimim air base in Syria. In addition to the deployment of frontline fighters such as the SU-34 and SU-35, the Russian military has deployed…