Posted on 10/18/2015 1:12:58 PM PDT by marvel5
"Russia plans to carry out up to 300 aerial missions over Syria every day and intends to build a new runway to accommodate its warplane, it has been claimed.
This shocking escalation comes as Syrian troops advance on rebel areas in the province of Aleppo, backed up by Russian jets that have been bombing Syria for more than two weeks.
Images taken only today show the destruction caused by Russia's planes in the strategically important village of Al-Hader, just south of Aleppo city, which activists claim is the next target in Syria's ground offensive.
. . .
[Medvedev] claims that President Vladimir Putin told him: 'If we don't destroy these terrorists there, they will come to Russia.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I wish we had a President.
That many is probably an exaggeration but the threat alone will have an effective propaganda effect.
The logistics and costs of 300 missions per day will be staggering. They can also expect increased losses due to accidents and oversights.
This should be a fascinating look at how the Russians will perform under a wartime scenario. I hope our side is watching closely. (Ordinarily, I could feel assured they would. But the assets required to watch, their deployment, maintenance, fuel and associated costs must be approved eventually by the President. I don’t think he cares what advantage it would give the military and future presidents.)
There seems to be some genuine surprise at how well the latest-gen Russian equipment is working in Syria.
They didn’t send the Monkey guns, but top-line stuff.
The SU-34 seems to be the most surprising of all.
They are flying sorties 3-4 times a day, DAILY, over long periods, without major maintenance breaks. Try that in most of the NATO fleet.
Probably includes drones, UAV's, and observational flights, not a small number.
If anyone were to have a plan for wiping out swaths of people, the Russians would be the ones...
Is that what RT has been tweeting?
>>I wish we had a President.
Comrade Chairman Flex-O-Bumble is the best president the Soviets ever had.
Another article from a foreign paper
It’s interesting how US media has dialed back the coverage of Russia’s Syria mission. I suspect that means they’re succeeding, so America’s pro-jihadi media has lost interest
-—[Medvedev] claims that President Vladimir Putin told him: ‘If we don’t destroy these terrorists there, they will come to Russia.’-—
That sounds eerily similar to “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here” (GWB)
The difference is Putin is actually ‘fighting them’, whereas we we wasted preciuous time trying to comply with self-defeating rules of engagement and political correctness to placate CAIR.
The ME is quite a bit closer to Russia than the US.
Aleppo will be telling. If the Syrian Army stalemates here, with Russia, “conducting 300 missions a day” then this is going to get interesting...especially the Russian spin.
That’s what my map says too.
And the point?
“Is that what RT has been tweeting?”
I see the latest Soros check they sent you, cleared.
In both cases they are just a plane ride away and Obama will soon be bringing Syrians into the US by the planeload.
“If anyone were to have a plan for wiping out swaths of people, the Russians would be the ones...”
I wonder how many Lawyers per Brigade the Russians deploy, as compared to ours?
300 sorties per day? It’s still that target rich of a battlespace? It must be true what they say about the accuracy of Russian munitions.
That Russia’s Muslim predominant North Caucasus, where they have had a few “problems” in the past, is just a stone’s throw away from the ME, and therefore the threat from the ME is much more credible than such a threat to the US.
Maybe if Russia acts fast enough, the “refugees” can be sent back.
And the healthy male ISIS members can be executed by Russia and Syria.
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