Militants in Syria claim to have shot down a Russian helicopter

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TV channel Al-Arabiya citing a source in the group "Jaish al-Azza", calling itself the formation of "the Syrian free army," reports that the militants shot down a helicopter in the province of Hama. The so-called Syrian Human Rights Observatory Monitoring Center, based in London, states that the helicopter belonged to the Russian Aerospace Forces. The Ministry of Defense of Russia at the moment does not confirm the information about the loss of the helicopter.

Information Agency Sputnik citing its own sources, cites information that the Russian-made helicopter belonged to the government forces of the Syrian Arab Republic.



Western media and microblogging Twitter mentioned TC Al-Arabiya, spread frames, which can be seen as the helicopter after its landing gets a rocket fired by militants from the US anti-tank missile system TOW. At the moment of hit, an explosion occurs, and the helicopter engulfs the flames, and thick black smoke begins to fall.

Боевики в Сирии заявляют, что сбили российский вертолёт


The militants at this moment shout that they "will kill the Russians in the name of Allah." In principle, this once again speaks of what constitutes the "Syrian moderate opposition" and the "free Syrian army."
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  1. +9
    3 September 2016 06: 59
    Creatures in a word, that bearded men, that their masters
    1. +8
      3 September 2016 07: 11
      What can you do, war ... Then who is who. We consider them creatures, they are us.
      1. +8
        3 September 2016 07: 21
        It is clear that war. Owners and patrons from behind puddles rage. All the troubles of the Syrian people because of them
      2. +1
        4 September 2016 05: 02
        No, they consider you (or, more correctly, us - all who are not Muslims of their particular persuasion) unfaithful and enemies of Allah, and at the first opportunity they will make us an ax head. Someone (perhaps Churchill? I don’t remember) said about them like: "Either they are under your boot, or with a knife at your throat."
        1. +1
          5 September 2016 10: 53
          ISIS fighter stopped a Christian couple’s car. ISIS action movie: “Are you a Muslim?”

          Christian: "Yes, I am Muslim."

          ISIS militant: "If you are a Muslim, retell the sura from the Koran."

          The Christian recited a poem from the Bible.

          ISIS action movie: “Well, you can go.”

          After a few minutes, the wife, barely catching her breath, tells her husband: “I can’t believe how you took such a risk. Why did you say that we are Muslims? If he knew that you were lying, he would kill us both! ”

          “I was worried in vain. If they knew the Qur'an, they would never kill people! "- answered her husband.
          So America and England. If they were people ...
  2. +1
    3 September 2016 07: 05
    In the video, the terrorists, as if in a dash, are training to shoot at targets.
    1. +5
      3 September 2016 07: 12
      And this is a matter of combat use of aviation, or rather cover.
      1. +2
        3 September 2016 08: 10
        I saw the Syrian flag on a helicopter, this is not our technique.
  3. +27
    3 September 2016 07: 13
    The gunmen shot down a helicopter and immediately the "Syrian Monitoring Center for Human Rights" in London is the first to know about it. It is high time to rename this "Syrian Center" to "Terrorist Center" and eliminate it.
    1. +11
      3 September 2016 07: 18
      Azim77 ... the first "Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center" in London to know about it. It is high time to rename this "Syrian Center" to "Terrorist Center" and eliminate it.
      What are you, what are you. no This "center" will be heavily guarded, and the thirty pieces of silver will slobber, if only the muddy verbal fountain of "reliable information" does not dry out. And the State Department learns the news from there.wassat
      1. +14
        3 September 2016 07: 52
        But nobody has canceled the traditional London tea parties. bully Like scarves in bathrooms hi
  4. +12
    3 September 2016 07: 21
    Almost a year has passed since our VKS got down to business. Yes, Assad has stood and strengthened his position. Well, then what? This war will end in victory, or in any case, to bomb and bomb, bomb and bomb. More Turks climbed. Fuck, tell me what is happening in this Syria, who is fighting with whom and against whom.
    1. +8
      3 September 2016 08: 07
      What victory are you talking about? The war does not go with bandits - these are just pawns, but with the USA. When the United States runs out of money (and they print it), then the bandits will end. But the apparent infinity of this process is finite - the United States is forced to print more money, thereby undermining its financial system. The number of screams about the financial crisis in the USA from various kinds of financial analysts has recently increased by an order of magnitude, so we are moving in the right direction good No need to amuse yourself with a victory in Syria, it won’t be, it’s a small square on the world chessboard.
    2. +11
      3 September 2016 08: 28
      Well, like Putin said that the war in Syria is the destruction of terrorists on the distant approaches. and in terms of the number of destroyed headquarters of "terrorists" there should be no more commanders than lieutenants. But seriously, Russia is now engaged in the same thing as the union was doing, fighting with the United States, but not directly, but in third countries. And with the help of local formations. I was also surprised by the line in the message, they say, look how these people are not happy about the shot down helicopter, so they are happy that they will be bombed by one less helicopter. And if you think about the longer the war goes on, the more people appear who, apart from war, do not want anything and there will be a new Avgan with eternal war, although there is one plus then there will definitely not be new gas pipelines from the Arabs to Europe.
    3. +3
      3 September 2016 15: 12
      A bunch of allahbabahnyh and everyone has different interests. That heap is small
  5. +14
    3 September 2016 07: 22
    Yesterday there was information that this was not our Mi-24, but a Gazelle of the Syrian army. But it's still sad.
    1. +5
      3 September 2016 08: 36
      Exactly. At militarimaps it was immediately written about the gazelle. And the video shows that this is clearly not our helicopter.
      1. +5
        3 September 2016 08: 54
        The question as a whole is the lack of struggle or reconnaissance of the positions of the broads with anti-tank systems. On the same day, in the same area, the Syrian Mi-8 flew with Sukhel. They would have killed him, and everything would have happened at least in Hama extremely badly. There and so, after a year of calm, the army men get on their slippers anyway (in 4 days they lost 3 large cities by 20 + thousand pre-war and two army bases).
  6. +4
    3 September 2016 07: 32
    In Syria, terrorists shot down a helicopter of government troops. This was reported by Sputnik, citing an informed source.
    According to him, as a result, the pilot and assistant died. The crash, according to preliminary data, occurred in the area of ​​the city of Khattab, in the north-west of the outskirts of Hama, controlled by the government of Bashar al-Assad. At the time of the death, the helicopter tried to destroy the convoy of vehicles in which the suicide bombers were.

    Meanwhile, other sources claim that the fallen helicopter belonged to the French company Gazelle. In turn, a group of Syrian rebels previously claimed that the "Russian helicopter" was destroyed.


    And whom to believe? We are waiting for the official statement of the Ministry of Defense.
    1. +5
      3 September 2016 08: 39
      Video. On the Video - Gazelle. The Syrians confirmed the gazelle and the death of a brigadier general and lieutenant colonel in it.
  7. +5
    3 September 2016 08: 00
    There is only one army - the lawful army of Syria obeying Assad and the people, and everything else needs to be destroyed, and enough to talk with jackals
  8. +5
    3 September 2016 08: 00
    It’s time to use large vacuum bombs there, it’s enough to clatter with them, so that guaranteed nothing comes out of any hole.
    1. +14
      3 September 2016 09: 52
      It's time to use large vacuum bombs there

      So, dear they hurt, so their what ETOGES, first make a vacuum, then pump it into a bonba, under high pressure belay
      1. +5
        3 September 2016 11: 53
        So, dear, they hurt, so that what Etozh, first make a vacuum, then pump it into a bonba, under high pressure

        You can buy a vacuum from the Chinese. Now everyone who wants to make a vacuum. It is possible to mine in space. laughing

        PS
        In general, the good news. The more Syrian turntables go to waste, the better. good
        1. +1
          3 September 2016 19: 49
          Well, Oleg, you say, too, from space, what Kamaz trucks should I use to transport him? Yes, there even "Ural" will not pass! recourse
          And at the expense of helicopters, yes. Nafig these gazelles, let our Milevskys and Kamovskys buy, and what the UN people are doing and don’t complain wink
          1. +1
            4 September 2016 10: 38
            Well, Oleg, you say, too, from space, at what Kamaz trucks should I transport him? Yes, there even "Ural" will not pass

            Well, this is if you carry a solid vacuum, but a liquid one is better. Especially the one with a vacuum coefficient greater than 13 kg / A ^ 2. You can generally throw a hose from orbit and pump the vacuum directly to the plants.

            And at the expense of helicopters, yes. Nafig these gazelles, let our Milevskys and Kamovskys buy, and what the UN people are doing and don’t complain

            Are they buying? Is this when Syria bought something from Moscow? Everything and always received for nothing. But the most interesting thing is that the officials shout that there is a war for Syrian oil in Syria. In how. Since they have oil, what then Russia wrote off Assad 10 billion dollars of debt? request
            1. +1
              4 September 2016 18: 38
              throw and pump a hose from orbit
              The hose will not work, the capillarity is large. You have to wet it with wetting.
            2. 0
              6 September 2016 01: 16
              Well, they bought some gazelles, but from Qatar to Europe you don’t have a cake for Russia, you’ll go up in transit, but we need it. So, we’ll write off, and then landlise, the truth is that the Chinese are even fussing, oh well, we’ll share it, Oleg, the USSR, in the past
        2. +2
          4 September 2016 05: 03
          Profesor do you support igil? not good, this is the case when Israel will be next. and when the Syrian boy’s head was cut off, were you also happy?
          1. 0
            4 September 2016 09: 58
            Do not forget that Israel and Syria have been in a permanent war for more than 60 years.
            But ISIS does not have a 300 thousandth army, 5 thousand tanks, support for Russia, etc. Therefore, the victory of ISIS is only a reduction in the threat to Israel. And the ideal situation for them is a war without end.
          2. 0
            6 September 2016 01: 56
            They need to break Syria into several, with money the government of managed Llimtrophs, well, the next batch of Kurdish Turks are squeezing
    2. +3
      4 September 2016 00: 33
      Ndaa, and the vacuum is dumb.
      This is how many times to repeat to people like you that there are no vacuum bombs in nature, just not. There are bombs with a thermobaric charge. Then look for it yourself.
      1. +1
        4 September 2016 03: 25
        Well, he took it and broke it off. Now there is not a vacuum of bombs, how to live, what to bomb, oh, pichalka crying ODAGS again recourse
        1. +2
          4 September 2016 04: 01
          Although, the men from the aviation said that if they cleaned the air defense, and then 76 from the VAP-2 ...
          You don’t say current to Mikhan, you never know, suddenly he will find matches in the buffet what
  9. 0
    3 September 2016 08: 03
    What a moderate one, to water all of them with constant constancy, as Putin said even in the toilet, and to hammer (nail) on Western and Ocean pseudo partners.
  10. +2
    3 September 2016 08: 09
    And pay attention to what kind of weapon the helicopter was shot down! Who feeds the barmalei! There is no need for discussion here. Here's where to start ...
  11. +2
    3 September 2016 08: 12
    All the jackals shouting about the Russians, the Russians will send parcels to the devil in a pan. It’s a pity for helicopter pilots whoever they are.
  12. +3
    3 September 2016 08: 13
    Another brazen stuffing .... shot down Gazelle!
  13. UVB
    +4
    3 September 2016 08: 16
    Quote: stock buildbat
    Yesterday there was information that this was not our Mi-24, but a Gazelle of the Syrian army. But it's still sad.

    More specifically, information on the respected / without quotation marks / "Bulletin of Mordovia": http://warfiles.ru/show-128010-sbityy-rossiyskiy-
    mi-24-okazalsya-siriyskoy-gazelyu.html
  14. +2
    3 September 2016 08: 34
    Quote: Sergey Shagilov
    What a moderate one, to water all of them with constant constancy, as Putin said even in the toilet, and to hammer (nail) on Western and Ocean pseudo partners.

    It may be better to score these partners directly than to compete with them in third countries. In Syria, the war has been going on for five years and the end of the region is not visible, and already the USA and the Russian Federation are directly involved there with their Air Force and special units.
  15. 0
    3 September 2016 08: 36
    This has already passed: "moderate - uncertain" Allah will sort them out. They shoot down a MIG and yell in Russian, and then it turns out they shot down a Syrian. 1. Often take wishful thinking. 2. More noise, more denig and more barmaley.
  16. +6
    3 September 2016 08: 37
    Shot down an air minibus Gazelle. The Syrians lost a lieutenant colonel and a general who flew to the front line - Brigadier General Mohammed Ali Habib & Lieutenant Colonel Alaa Ahmad Deeb. At the same time, Sukhel Hassan was on the Mi-8 in the same area (if he flew to the Gazelle, and he used to fly to the Gazelle, it would be really bad).
  17. +1
    3 September 2016 08: 40
    Quote: Expelling Liberoids
    There is only one army - the lawful army of Syria obeying Assad and the people, and everything else needs to be destroyed, and enough to talk with jackals

    The army is subordinate to the government and the government must first protect the interests of the nation and state. true rulers in all countries without exception often forget about it, and only the change of rulers poses at least some sort of obstacle to the forgetfulness of rulers ..
  18. +2
    3 September 2016 08: 51
    how long this war will last .. Americans and their allies are doing everything so that the war does not end, collecting and financing all the garbage in the world to continue the massacre in Syria. Why is Russia not acting more persistently in opposition to its partners? It is necessary to create the same "club of America's lovers", let's say the North Carrians probably do not mind fighting terrorism in Syria ... who offered them something? We need to work more persistently with China. The Americans have made a lot of things in the world and, accordingly, they have a lot of friends - you just need to unite them and direct them in the right direction - the fight against international terrorism.
    1. +2
      3 September 2016 09: 03
      China stands in the way of the tiger, let the monkeys beat each other with sticks, they get tired and then you can go down the hill. At the same time, emphasis is being placed on the maritime territories; now the fleet has the PLA priority No. 1.

      Neo-Confucian DPRK - in the coffin he saw all the savages from Christians to muslims. But for bucks and food, they probably would have agreed. However, this is a mega operation.

      To defeat the main groups of broads, in combined-arms battles, to select territories and cities - to shove them underground / mountains / forests (that is, as in Chechnya 2002 - when gangs in 500 + snarled are not uncommon, raid them on cities too, but capture and hold them they couldn’t already) several adult brigades were needed, with tanks, artillery, motorized riflemen, a well-trained military charter, and not a haram.

      Even taking the reaction of the world community beyond, who will supply the 1,5-2 brigades of the North Koreans in a foreign country? The DPRK has no opportunity not to transport, not to supply. Assad does too. It’s even bracketing the climate and mentality (as if the Koreans did not begin to slaughter Muslims indiscriminately).
  19. +1
    3 September 2016 09: 10
    Quote: Mozart

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    Mozart Today, 08:48 ↑
    Peter1 Today, 08:10 ↑
    I saw the Syrian flag on a helicopter, this is not our technique.

    Syria is ours! Their losses, our losses ... We are not the USA!

    I don’t agree with you, I don’t agree and that’s it ...
  20. +4
    3 September 2016 09: 17
    By the way about TOUistov. They no longer even try to change positions. Yesterday it was recorded 4 spaced in start time from one point.
  21. +2
    3 September 2016 09: 49
    Quote: Muvka
    This is clearly not true. In the video, the helicopter is not at all like any of ours. And at militarymaps there was immediately infa that it was a Syrian gazelle.

    It doesn’t look like a Russian at all, and the impression is that he was landing.
    It’s strange if banduks operate in the immediate vicinity of airfields (although it is possible that this fenced field has nothing to do with the airfield)
  22. vmo
    +1
    3 September 2016 10: 58
    Wet the freaks wherever hit and not listen to the fucking Americans.
  23. 0
    3 September 2016 10: 58
    Another provocation
  24. +2
    3 September 2016 11: 46
    "The militants at this moment they shout that they will “kill Russians in the name of Allah”"...

    Hmm ... The question arises: with whom and in the name of what are the mujahideen militants in Syria actually fighting ...
    And - the main question: exactly against the Russians - on whose command?
  25. +1
    3 September 2016 11: 46
    Quote: donavi49
    Video. On the Video - Gazelle. The Syrians confirmed the gazelle and the death of a brigadier general and lieutenant colonel in it.

    How can such a rank be brought carelessly? And once again I say that the rats and moles of the Syrians in the headquarters, counterintelligence will not know
  26. 0
    3 September 2016 12: 43
    Quote: weksha50
    "The militants at this moment they shout that they will “kill Russians in the name of Allah”"...

    Hmm ... The question arises: with whom and in the name of what are the mujahideen militants in Syria actually fighting ...
    And - the main question: exactly against the Russians - on whose command?

    This is how the ISIS people understand they are fighting for the "Arab Caliphate", the Kurds are fighting to create their own state, the moderates to become Chatlans themselves. They are fighting against the Russians at the command of Putin, after his order to support Assad. If it were not for a command from Putin for support with materials, equipment, spare parts, ammunition, and food finally by the Russian Air Force, all these peppers would have already eaten Assad and would have successfully grappled with each other. and Putin could have told Assad "there is no money, but you hold on there" and build on the savings from the voyga in Syria of apartments for poor Russians, for example. But, apparently, playing geopolitics is more interesting than doing the daily routine. especially for the input of a million meters of additional. Mr. Putin’s housing will not be invited to the international summit on the settlement in Syria, and after the bombing and shelling with calibers without Mr. Putin, there’s no way around the settlement of the Syrian conflict.
    1. +1
      4 September 2016 05: 09
      Tell me, do Americans build housing for poor Americans? well you foreigners are so worried about our poor, worry about your
  27. +4
    3 September 2016 13: 05
    Quote: Semurg
    Quote: weksha50
    "The militants at this moment they shout that they will “kill Russians in the name of Allah”"...

    Hmm ... The question arises: with whom and in the name of what are the mujahideen militants in Syria actually fighting ...
    And - the main question: exactly against the Russians - on whose command?

    This is how the ISIS people understand they are fighting for the "Arab Caliphate", the Kurds are fighting to create their own state, the moderates to become Chatlans themselves. They are fighting against the Russians at the command of Putin, after his order to support Assad. If it were not for a command from Putin for support with materials, equipment, spare parts, ammunition, and food finally by the Russian Air Force, all these peppers would have already eaten Assad and would have successfully grappled with each other. and Putin could have told Assad "there is no money, but you hold on there" and build on the savings from the voyga in Syria of apartments for poor Russians, for example. But, apparently, playing geopolitics is more interesting than doing the daily routine. especially for the input of a million meters of additional. Mr. Putin’s housing will not be invited to the international summit on the settlement in Syria, and after the bombing and shelling with calibers without Mr. Putin, there’s no way around the settlement of the Syrian conflict.

    Amateurish point of view
  28. +1
    3 September 2016 14: 49
    Quote: Semurg
    Quote: Sergey Shagilov
    What a moderate one, to water all of them with constant constancy, as Putin said even in the toilet, and to hammer (nail) on Western and Ocean pseudo partners.

    It may be better to score these partners directly than to compete with them in third countries. In Syria, the war has been going on for five years and the end of the region is not visible, and the USA and the Russian Federation are directly involved there with their Air Force and special forces
    It may be better to score these partners directly than to compete with them in third countries. In Syria, the war has been going on for five years and the end of the region is not visible, and already the USA and the Russian Federation are directly involved there with their Air Force and special units.

    Yes, they are present there, but there is no direct confrontation between the Russian Federation and the USA, and if I start to extinguish these pseudo partners, then it can happen, and we need it, it is beneficial for Russia to wet the caliphate on Syrian territory, and that the Russian Federation systematically does despite there’s nothing to do with it, it’s not particularly involved in the conflict as the United States would like, and our presence in Syria is even cheaper. We don’t need a direct war, not the United States, but to play a game in a third country is that please, this is a priority super Powers, and who will be more cold-blooded, he will win, and for one the fate of Syria will be decided, not something personal is politics, everyone is looking for their interests in troubled waters.
  29. 0
    3 September 2016 14: 56
    It’s not a weapon that shoots, people shoot ... And to reduce the number of people who shoot from this weapon at aircraft is the main task of the aerospace forces in Syria ..
  30. +1
    4 September 2016 03: 51
    After any action, verbal diarrhea is heard - Alahu Akbar, something akin to - glory to Ukraine .......... fellow
  31. 0
    4 September 2016 11: 59
    And now, quickly dive underground and God forbid you stick out from there.
  32. 0
    5 September 2016 04: 21
    Another nonsense

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