Still, the vast majority of their air strikes are not against ISIS, but against rebels targeting Assad.
When Russia focuses on ISIS and their ink, let me know.
I've conceded your point, will you consider mine?
Posted on 10/13/2015 7:25:51 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Russian aircraft carried out 88 sorties in Syria in 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday Over the past day, Su-24, Su-24M and Su-25SM aircraft completed 88 sorties on 86 terrorist infrastructure positions in the Raqqa, Hama, Idlib, Latakia, and Aleppo regions," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
The targets included IS command posts, weapon storage facilities, and sites where the group manufactured explosives, he said.
Intercepted talks between Islamic State militants in Syria indicate that parts of the group are ready to leave the combat zone in Syria due to acute weapon shortages, Konashenkov went on to say.
"According to radio intercepts in the Hama and Homs provinces, the militants experience an acute shortage of ammunition for small arms and grenade launchers. Some field commanders have stated demands to their leadership that if they do not receive arms in the near future, they will withdraw their groups from the combat zone," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
"Today, these are no longer caravans [transporting weapons], but maneuverable groups of off-road vehicles, usually moving at night with cargo for terrorists," he added.
According to the spokesman, Islamic State fighters have lost a large part of their weapons and equipment as Russia has stepped up its airstrikes in Syria. This has forced the group to "set in motion the entire logistics network available to the terrorists in order to transport ammunition and fuel from the Raqqa province."
Several strike videos at the link.
I’m surprised the AC last that long................
Seems as if they are surging two to three times a day.
Pretty good sortie rate, if that’s is what’s happening.
But what is their target success rate?...................
Russia is busy these days, very serious about taking out the terrorist menace that threatens the entire Middle East, and by extension, the World.
Meanwhile Obama sleeps in after being exhausted from watching all those sports games over the weekend.
Ah, priorities.
No worries, Obama will bring ISIS over here and make them citizens, then move them into YOUR hometown.
Yes. How many islamists have they killed?
Who knows...
From the videos being posted all over the Internet, Where we would use a single bomb, the Russians are dropping whole sticks.
Looks like the US Government is obliging there request.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3348095/posts
Is there any world outrage over the Russians going in to wipe out this pestilence? None that I see. Meanwhile, the west cowers in fear of international condemnation if one bullet goes astray in battle and our so-called CIC stands ready to draw and quarter the hapless soldier who fired that bullet.
Refugees.
If they are good enough for Europe, surely they are good enough for us...
Let me know when they start targeting ISIS.
Raqqa is all ISIS, no “moderate” rebels there.
I do the calculus a bit differently:
There are ≈1.3 billion møøselimbs on the planet.
Our very survival requires that we kill n møøselimbs. Where n is a number between 0 and 1.3 billion. It is defined as the number necessary to kill for the remainder, 1,300,000,000-n to forswear violence as a means of religious debate.
WE don't set the value of n.
THEY set the value of n...
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When you shut them down and fire them back up again is when things break.
Still, the vast majority of their air strikes are not against ISIS, but against rebels targeting Assad.
When Russia focuses on ISIS and their ink, let me know.
I've conceded your point, will you consider mine?
I guess from a practical standpoint, one could point out that the “moderate” rebels are a lot closer to the regime areas, so would have to be dealt with first.
Agreed! As long as everyone who would spread islam by the sword dies, I’m OK with that.
Maybe they are just getting rid of their old ordnance!..................
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