In an attempt to save the situation in the SAR, the West is changing the rules of the “game”: a resolution of the UN General Assembly and assistance to militants
The success of the tactics of action of the Syrian government forces near Aleppo, where with the support of tactical aviation On December 8, 2016, the Sheikh Said area was almost completely cleaned up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, and then the neighborhoods of Bustan al-Qasr and Al-Kallas were occupied, fundamentally not satisfied with the existing Western regimes, which practically lost parity with the Russian Federation for strategic control of the situation in war-torn Middle Eastern country. A very "epic" statement for the United States on today's situation was made by the former US ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, indicating that the only right move for Washington in this round of confrontation would be to discuss with Moscow and Damascus the conditions for the surrender of the Syrian opposition to the Syrian government forces. Galbraith's reflections most accurately reflected the real complexity of the situation in which today there are West-controlled militias of Syrian militants who destroyed our military hospital in the province of Idlib the day before, as well as other terrorist groups fed by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United States itself.
The current American regime realized the counterproductiveness of its strategy in Syria even when the skies over the northwestern part of the country were closed by the anti-missile / anti-aircraft "shield" of the Russian S-400 air defense systems, and over the rest - by deployed links of super-maneuverable multipurpose Su-35S fighters. From that moment on, the coalition strike aviation could carry out only extremely rare pinpoint airstrikes on the targets of the Syrian army, looking for small temporary corridors when certain ground government units were not covered from the air by the Russian Su-35S on duty. The search for such temporary corridors of NATO military forces is carried out on a regular basis, using AWACS E-3C / G aircraft of the US Air Force, as well as analogues in service with the Turkish Air Force - Boeing-737 AEW & C "Peace Eagle". One of such strikes on Syrian army units was delivered by a coalition tactical wing on September 17, 2016, in the area of the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, remote from Latakia, the flight time to which at thirty-fives exceeds 10 minutes. Then 62 Syrian soldiers were killed. This action was carried out in a sneaky form, traditional for the West, on the sly, when Russian fighters, AWACS and radio-technical reconnaissance aircraft did not monitor this section of the airspace.
Later, after the transfer of the long-range interceptors MiG-31BM to the Syrian Queberes airbase in late October - early November 2016, located on 100-150 km closer to the unsafe eastern parts of Syrian airspace, such incidents ceased, which means the coalition lost all existing previously, the possibility of maintaining well-planned subversive work in the decisive sectors of the front of the Syrian army: unpunished airstrikes became impossible. And official Washington, having connected all the possibilities of its diplomatic corps, as well as close NATO ties with Western Europe and a monopoly over the control of international organizations, decided to act, as they say, ahead of the curve and perspective before the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House.
Initially, as a demonstration of force, and also in the event that US military instructors evacuated from Aleppo and other provinces of Syria were covered, the command of the US Navy transferred 6 landing craft to the 2 th operational fleet, to the Eastern Mediterranean. One of them is the LHD-1 USS “Wasp”, a universal landing ship-helicopter carrier, the other is the LSD-41 USS “Whidbey Island” transport-landing ship / dock. The ships entered the Mediterranean 2 on December 2016 of the year, bringing to the Syrian coast more than 4000 of American marines in full gear. Around 2000, US KMP servicemen, located directly on Wasp, the rest of 2000, along with weapons, on Vaidbay Island. In addition, 4000 has thousands of people. The 22 US Expeditionary Detachment of the USMC has a tactical carrier-mounted wing of the X-NUMX-15 multi-purpose AV-20B attack fighters, a transport squadron of a dozen of the Osprey MV-8B / C, as well as the 22 or XNHXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXHXXXX-NNXX-NNXXX-X OTM, and also the 3 or XNTHX X-NXXXXXXXXXHXX-NNXX-OTMP, and also the 4 or XNHXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-NNXX-OCV, and also the 70 or XNXX X-NXXXXXXXXX-OXXX-OCTrey. capable of delivering the enemy up to 72 marines to the coast of 180-6 km / h, or 155 777-mm howitzer МXNUMX to the coast.
Most likely, in this case, greater emphasis was placed not on the LCAC LCAC, but on the Osprey convertoplanes. The whole point is that the entire Syrian littoral zone is reliably protected by the AUG of the Russian Navy, headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov, as well as by the coastal SCRK Bastion-P with a radius of 300 km. LCAC with a maximum load has a range of about 480 km, and to enable them to penetrate deep into the territory of Syria, “Wasp” and “Vaidbay Island” at the time of sending boats will have to enter the deadly zone of destruction of the coastal “Bastions”. The range of the partially loaded MV-22C can reach 780 km, thanks to which the landing craft can stay at a distance of about 600 km from the Syrian coast. Of course, this does not save them from a possible attack by the “Granites” installed on “Admiral Kuznetsov”, “Peter the Great” and the MAPL of 941A Antey Ave., or the anti-ship versions of the 3М54Х1 “Caliber” anti-ship missiles, which are in service with lighter fighting combatants, who are in service with lighter combat combat planes XNUMXXXNUMXXXNUMX “Caliber”, which are in service with lighter combat combat planes of lighter fighting combatants. but it is quite clear: the further, the safer.
Many analysts, as well as the media claim that before leaving, the current regime of Barack Obama may well try to unleash a direct local conflict of medium intensity with the Russian contingent in Syria to consolidate the negative relationship under the Trump regime. This opinion deserves very serious attention, the reason for which may be the recent undisguised military action with the shelling of a Russian military hospital by representatives of the Syrian opposition, the target designation of which was issued by none other than Western military instructors. But in a direct attack against a superpower with the most powerful fleet and the VKS Washington is unlikely to dare, or will do so in a pinch. The present-day composition of the naval strike groups of the United Navy of the NATO and the Allied Air Force of the Western Coalition in the Middle East will not be able to "crush" the air defense systems of our air forces on the Avb Aviation Base Khmeimim and Queres, as well as near the port of Tartus. They will not be able to become a serious counterweight to the Syrian Armed Forces and our contingent, and 4 thousand marines, awaiting orders for the introduction of the so-called "moderate" into the "Syrian meat grinder". In the best case scenario for Washington, the U.S. CLC can only control the relatively painless departure of Western European and American military instructors from the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo in order to hide from the world community the facts of support for militants who put sticks in the wheels of the Syrian government units.
The preparation of the West for military operations with the participation of the Russian Armed Forces will be clear only if the US Navy’s reinforced carrier-based strike forces are deployed to the Red Sea or the eastern part of the Mediterranean 2-3, and at least one airborne unobtrusive air base is deployed to Al-Dafra Air Force Base. Fighter 5-th generation F-22A. Now talk about it prematurely.
By the way, remember the nightly attempt to carry out a large-scale offensive operation by ISIS on the liberated Palmyra on the night of December 11, 2016. Terrorists are trying to re-capture the priceless historical relics of Syria, plus taking into the tactical "cauldron" the units of the Syrian army and militias surrounded in Palmyra, holding the city’s defense. By 20:00 - 21:00, December 10, 2016, the situation in the city has acquired the most threatening character. According to the Arabic publication Al-Masdar, the formation of the Islamic State, on Sunday night, continued to develop the offensive, which began on Thursday. It led a breakthrough to the highlands of Jabal-Antar, Jabal-at-Tar and Jabal-Mazar, belonging to the At-Tar mountain range. As you know, in addition to direct support from the Russian air forces, numerous units of militias from the city of Homs arrived to help the militias and the Syrian Armed Forces, but the balance of forces still didn’t equalize — the Islamic State significantly outnumbered Assad’s army. By 22:00 p.m. many people no longer believed that the city’s defense would stand and manage to preserve the strategically important Palmyra-Holmes highway, which the Ishilovites planned to include in the line of fire of their mortar and artillery calculations. Nevertheless, despite the 2-3-fold numerical superiority of the terrorists, the defense survived: the IS formations were driven out from the northern vicinity of Palmyra to the area of heights on the At-Tar ridge. During the period of the temporary capture of the suburbs of Palmyra, the terrorists managed to capture tens of tons of ammunition as trophies.
Later, on Sunday evening in December 11, the units of ISIS, having rested and having regrouped the assault "cores", continued the offensive. Despite the fact that the official Damascus and command of the Russian Aerospace Forces with conclusions are not in a hurry, and continue to send ground reinforcements and helicopter transport and strike aircraft to cover the defense forces of the militia and the armed forces of Syria, the situation is not bright. Numerous Middle Eastern Arabic publications report that the city of Palmyra is already partially occupied by ISIS, and the Syrian artillery units only provide artillery cover for the friendly forces retreating from the city. Information from Islamist groups in social networks, the participants and administrators of which are militants of a terrorist organization, is partially confirmed. Another indicator is the spreading information about the scale of evacuation of the local population leaving the city along the “Palmyra-Holmes” highway. The main “backbones” of the IG numbering about 5 thousand people, receiving tactical information and weapons from the West, methodically storm the ancient Syrian city from the southern and northeast operational directions using the MLRS, armored vehicles and anti-tank systems. On Saturday evening, it became known that reconnaissance was carried out in the airspace over Palmyra using no less than 5 American UAVs. To whom the information is sent, we already know very well.
Also on Sunday evening, it became known that the militants seized the strategically important height of Al-Amariah, because of which the further presence of the Syrian army in the city is fraught with huge losses. The exit highway is completely shot through by enemy artillery, 23- and 57-mm anti-aircraft artillery, anti-tank systems and large-caliber machine guns, which is why the time for leaving the city remains at least. At the moment, before joining the battle of full-fledged reinforcement of the armed forces of Syria, it is still very early to sum up Palmyra, but the situation is almost critical. In the event of the loss of the city, the Syrian artillery units lose more than 14 - 20 km of the depth of enemy territory.
And now let's see where the legs grow from this attempt to launch an igilovtsi attack. Attempts to storm the heights surrounding Palmyra were made on Thursday, 3 a day after December 5, Russia, for obvious reasons, rejected the ceasefire resolution draft prepared by the UN Security Council in New Zealand, Egypt and Spain. The document called for a 10-day cease-fire in Aleppo and its environs, ostensibly for a humanitarian mission, but in reality it would have led to the operational regrouping of terrorist groups, as well as the arrival of significant reinforcements from the rear zones of the militants. Even to an uninformed mind here it is not difficult to understand that the 10-day break was only for the States that want to take matters into their own hands as soon as possible. Russia sent the resolution to hell. Washington did not suit this at all, and, apparently, it was decided to exert pressure on Damascus and Moscow by attacking the IG units that had accumulated power: we received a little significant warning to force us to "play" by their Western rules. Russia and Syria responded with a tough military response.
A day later, on Friday 9 December, the UN General Assembly (the structure completely controlled by the West) 122, with the votes of the US allies, approved the Canadian version of the resolution document on a full cease-fire in the Syrian Arab Republic. In addition, the resolution shifts the responsibility for crimes in Syria to government forces, which is totally unacceptable in relation to the party that is fighting terrorism. It sounds the same from those who did not put a bit of effort to suppress this global enemy, and "lit up" only as the curator of the APU and a participant in the aggression in the Donbass.
You can look at the Canadian resolution document, adopted by 9 December, exclusively from a strategic point of view: after the cessation of Russian air strikes against ISIL and other gangs, these forces will quickly replenish their combat potential, including obtaining new American weapons, and will continue to attempt to pull out of the previously released Syrian legitimate territories of the country. To stop and discard them will be much more difficult than today. Similarly to the resolution, which was blocked by December 5, the Canadian project Russia, naturally, ignored ..., the fight against terrorism was continued. And so, on Saturday afternoon and evening, there is a repeated, more fierce, attempt to storm Palmyra, which looks like nothing more than another warning from our overseas "friends." And here is another fiasco. But where did the Pentagon-backed IG formations find human resources for such frequently repeated attacks on the strategically important strongholds of the Syrian army?
It immediately recalls the beginning of the assault on Mosul, in front of which, in Saudi Arabia, they made “green corridors” for ISIL militants and quite fair confirmation that the many thousands of militants would move from Iraq to the Syrian theater of military operations, and later people who had rested and treated would be added to Iraq, left through these "green corridors" on the border with Saudi Arabia. These forces, with the military support of the United States, are today participating in endless attacks on the liberated cities of Syria.
At this point, you can observe another interesting strategic move of Washington. The goal of the States is to clean up as much of the northern parts of Iraq as possible in exchange for helping igilovtsa to seize the cities liberated by the Syrian army. Thus, the Americans want to create an advantage, at least geographically, and also to take control of Iraq’s oil deposits as much as possible. And, as you can see, partly this strategy is already working. It is time for our Syrians to start “moving” in Palmyra and Aleppo. Any half an hour of adherence to humanitarian operations invented by the West will only lead to strengthening and developing more sophisticated and dangerous enemy tactics. We need to clearly remember that there are definitely no idiots in the Pentagon, and those who go to the podium with marasmic statements, mixing up the people, are only a cover for real tacticians and strategists. An example of this is Palmyra.
Almost throughout the defensive operation of the Syrian army units in Palmyra, there is fire support by the Russian attack helicopters Mi-28H and Ka-52 Alligator, but according to the flight crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian troops, the meteorological situation in the square of escalation does not allow fully combat helicopter capabilities. Apparently, the technological problem is that the cyclone, which has rained and wet snow on Palmyra in recent days, creates problems with the operation of the Vortex laser beam control system, as well as missile weapons with a semi-active laser homing head. There are some misunderstandings here. We all clearly remember that in January 2016 of the year, the Air Force of Russia received tactical missiles of the “air-to-ground” class of medium-range X-38 family. In addition to modifications with semi-active laser and infrared homing heads, there is also a version X-38MAE with active radar seeker. Thanks to radar targeting, the use of this rocket is practically not limited to meteorological conditions, and the carriers can be any multi-purpose tactical aviation fighter, including Su-34 (“strategic asset” of the VKS in Syria), Su-35С, and the same “Alligators”. The launch of X-38MAE can initially be carried out by targeting radar systems of the Sh-141 (Su-34) or H035 Irbis-E radar (Su-35С) at a distance of up to 40 km from the target and flight altitude to 12 km.
Considering even such an indicator as the circular probable deviation (KVO), which at X-38MAE does not exceed 5-12 m, the IG artillery or armored-technical unit will certainly be put out of action by breaking a heavy 250-kilogram high-explosive warhead. However, the successes of the active use of the Su-34 with X-38MAE in Syrian theater theaters are virtually unknown, and in the media they boasted only the use of old, tested X-29Л with semi-active laser homing, which you can simply forget about using in bad weather. If the “radar” X-38-MAE were used under the same Palmyra, then we would hardly have read and listened to the messages that are currently broadcast by numerous Arab television channels. There is another version of the rocket - X-38MKE. This product is equipped with a satellite guidance system, which is completely independent of weather conditions and can hit targets with an accuracy of 10 meters. The link from 4-x Su-34, having received target designation from the Syrian ground units or ORTR Tu-214P aircraft, can simultaneously attack with such 24 missiles combat units of the IG in one go. Why the whole spectrum of missile weapons and network-centric information exchange and radio intelligence is not used is unknown. It is likely that this is due to the use of all promising systems of the Russian VKS in the province of Aleppo, where there is an even more unpredictable threat to the Turkish military operation "Euphrates Shield". According to the official Istanbul, this operation is carried out with the aim of suppressing the sources of IS and the Syrian Kurds in the province of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, the real goal of Erdogan is a joint operation with the opposition Syrian Free Army to take control of all the northern territories of Syria before government forces in Syria do. The leadership of Turkey, as well as the command of the SSA, have the single most important goal - the destruction of the Kurds, and then the military confrontation with the current Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, which should already cause our General Staff to have very serious concerns. The bets made on the "Euphrates Shield" are large enough, what can be said of the armored technique that is involved in the operation. The Turks transferred more than 20-30 MBT "Leopard-2A4" to the territory of the northern provinces of Syria, and exerting military-political pressure on the command of the "National Self-Defense Detachments" of Kurdistan, threatening to continue the offensive. The only catch is that regardless of the actions of the friendly YPG of Russia, Istanbul will continue to heat up the situation in the north of the SAR, trying, together with the SSA, to recapture the lands liberated by the army of Assad.
The American army also officially takes part in Operation Euphrates Shield. According to staff sources, their MTR units, as well as operators of high-precision MLRS “HIMARS”, participate only in the destruction of the IG strongholds, and are not involved in the fight against the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic forces. In fact, the American units deployed in southern Turkey did not weaken the IG’s position in Syria: they don’t “launch” strikes on terrorists with ATACMS’s tactical ballistic missiles ATACMS from launchers of “HIMARS”, but only to ensure that IG did not move towards the Turkish border. Why not destroyed and not destroyed? Because the IG is the “lifeline” of Washington’s strategy to maintain parity and gain superiority over the Syrian Armed Forces and Russian interests in the Syrian theater of operations.
Let us turn to an equally interesting and important issue for the entire military company in Syria - the supply of weapons and high-tech network-centric equipment to the IS militants, thanks to which their actions are becoming more and more unpredictable and high efficiency.
Describing the incident in the largest eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, when the United Air Force coalition launched a missile bomb attack on the government of the SAR, the Syrian brigade general Samir Suleiman directly accused Washington and Ankara of military, logistical and material support for the most dangerous terrorist organization in the history of the IG . All of this has already been confirmed in recent events that have occurred both at the highest global foreign policy level (adoption of a resolution by the UN General Assembly) and military-tactical (the situation in Palmyra and Aleppo). Meanwhile, it would be very interesting for everyone to know in what ways the support of the multi-thousand-strong terrorist enclave officially operating in the interests of Western states is officially blocked in all areas. Remember the beginning of the military confrontation in Syria, when representatives of the foreign affairs and law enforcement agencies of Russia and Iran reported regular visits by American military transport aircraft to Syrian airfields in territories controlled by the Islamic State. For the first time, such a statement was made by Major General of the Armed Forces of Iran Hassan Firuzabadi in the second half of April 2015, according to information received by Iranian intelligence in the Middle East.
At that time, the States in this regard were simply gorgeous expanse: in the Syrian Arab Republic at that time there were no C-400 and C-300В4 SAMs, as well as airborne A-50U airplanes with MiG-31B interceptors that would completely block this air traffic oxygen. Soviet weapons, such as MBT T-55 / 62, BMP-2 and others, were taken by igilovtsy not only at the warehouses seized in Syria, but were delivered by American transport workers from Iraq, and possibly Yemen, who bought hundreds of Soviet armored vehicles in the 20th century and thousands of small arms and anti-tank weapons. Such gifts for a very profitable IG were financed not only by the States, but also by Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, which are buying "black gold" from militants. For the year of complete lawlessness and indulgence in the SAR, the United States filled up the military stores of ISIS so much that today all the arsenals of terrorists disabled in the battles were not even half of those delivered. Later in Syria, our aerospace forces deployed, and transmit weapon the militants of the IG and the Syrian opposition in a simplified scheme, with the help of the military transport "Globmasterov" and "Galaxy" became impossible. Then the Pentagon and began to work out new methods to maintain the combat capability of their wards in Syria. After all, it is necessary to save face before such a significant opinion of the world community! How can the standard of world “democracy” help terrorist organizations ?! The answer was not long in coming.
Transport corridors organized on the border with Saudi Arabia and Turkey are used to deliver large quantities of military cargo to militants. Similar methods are delivered arsenals of large-caliber artillery shells with calibers from 120 to 152 mm, missiles for rocket systems “Grad” and anti-tank guided missiles for ATGM “TOW-2F” and other complexes. These methods regularly replenish strategic weapons stocks for the IS. At the same time, the time of cargo transportation is clearly chosen in advance, which should not coincide with the presence of Russian or Syrian combat aircraft in the airspace, as well as Russian sides of strategic radio electronic and optical electronic intelligence, or reconnaissance UAVs. To prevent such undesirable coincidences in the arsenal of the United States Air Force there is a huge variety of means, which include AWACS E-3C / G, RC-135V / W “Rivet Joint” aircraft, as well as low-profile F-22A multi-purpose fighters capable of radar off to conduct electronic reconnaissance on the subject of the presence of our air VKS over the eastern provinces of Syria.
The methodology for supplying weapons and equipment with the help of unmanned multi-purpose aircraft (drones). For operational support of various units of the Syrian opposition and ISIS that need to replenish their ammunition, light small arms, anti-tank grenades, as well as a certain amount of ATGMs can be delivered in special hanging containers on the pylons of the Predator and Reaper strike and reconnaissance UAVs, as well as on others drones. In the airborne type of delivery of large military cargoes for militants, B-52H strategic bombers, deployed almost "at hand" at the Syrian theater of operations, can be involved - at the Qatari air base "El-Udeid", which is only 1500 km of air route from Syria ( an hour and a half flight for Stratofortress). Having dropped about 10 tons of unguided aerial bombs from the bomb bay to create for the public the fact of attacking the "bad guys", the remaining 12 tons can fall on a container with a strapdown parachute system, which can accommodate any weapons, unloading and optoelectronic systems necessary in battle observations.
Today, hundreds and thousands of the best Western techies are working on such techniques in all military fields. Otherwise, how then, over the course of 2 years of IS, losing thousands of men and hundreds of armored vehicles and artillery monthly in battles with the most powerful Russian VKS and the Syrian army, manages not only to keep afloat, but also deplete Assad’s army with endless counter-attacks and shelling? Paradox, is not it?
The next item of the American plan to preserve Western supporters among Syrian militants was B. Obama’s decision to remove the veto from the law, supply arms to all supporters of Washington in Syria, including the Kurdish Self-Defense Forces (YPG), the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Free Syrian army, etc. The main goal of most of the formations on this list is the military overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. For this reason, they automatically become one of the main opponents of Russia in the region, in addition to the PKK, of course. The “green light” of arms supplies to all paramilitary forces, in addition to the Kurds, poses a serious threat to our HQs, which will certainly have to be taken into account when planning future air operations in the Syrian theater of operations. As you may have guessed, this weapon will rush into the hands of the IG.
At the moment, absolutely nothing is known about the type and quantity of weapons that the Syrian militants will soon receive from the hands of Uncle Sam, but the media has already started a real commotion on this burning issue. So, for example, the chief expert of the Russian Center for Military-Political Studies of MGIMO and Doctor of Political Sciences Mikhail Alexandrov is inclined to believe that portable anti-aircraft missile systems may appear in the hands of Syrian insurgent rebels. If this forecast really comes true, we will get a very problematic low-altitude zone of air operations in the SAR.
In the event that they receive the obsolete Red Eye MANPADS, we get “risk echelons” in the altitude range from 5 to 2700 meters at 4,5 km distances. But our high-precision Su-34 front-line bombers, other tactical aircraft and attack helicopters can easily withstand these complexes, because the interceptor is the outdated FIM-43 SAMs, equipped with a single-channel infrared homing head with low-resolution IR matrix made of sulfur dioxide. It will be very easy to bring down its “capture” even with simple infrared traps, not to mention anti-aircraft maneuvers with medium overloads around 5 units, because FIM-43 has a very low limit on overload, limited to 3-5 units. If more advanced Stinger-RMP complexes will appear in service with the militants and terrorists, the situation will be much more complicated.
The dual-channel infrared ultraviolet homing head POST has a much higher noise immunity and resolution matrix. Two microprocessors for processing UV and IR information, simultaneously with rosette scanning of space for the presence of warm targets, make it possible to select well the real high contrast section of the turbofan and the gas jet of the target from the fired infrared traps. To confuse IR-UFGSN POST, it is necessary not only the use of heat traps, but also the use of specialized optical-electronic countermeasures such as Lipa, Sukhogruz or a new-generation station President-S. In addition, in the case of the launch of the FIM-92B SAM in the rear hemisphere, each machine must have on board a serviceable station for detecting attacking missiles using a missile engine of a modernized type LO-82 “Mac”, SOAP (MiG-35), or on-board radar of the type “ Spear-DL ", capable of detecting anti-aircraft guided missile FIM-92B at a distance of more than 4 km.
An even greater danger may come from a new modification of the FIM-92E missile defense system with an increased burden and operating time of the modernized turbojet engine. The range of this missile reaches 8 km, and the height of the interception - at least 4,2 km. The maneuverability of the rocket, built on a new element base with more durable overload chips, can reach more than 18 units, and therefore you will have to forget about frequent low-level flights. Nevertheless, the quality of strikes with high-precision weapons on the fortifications of Syrian militants will not decrease with a slight increase in working height.
Great fears may be caused by the supply of such weapons as the Javelin anti-tank systems. Despite the short range (about 2500 meters), the “slide” mode of flight, as well as the EKGSN anti-FGM-148 anti-tank anti-tank missile, which are anti-interference, allow you to clearly attack armored vehicles in the upper, most vulnerable, projections of armored vehicles including MBT. The start of the use of “Javelins” in the Syrian theater can lead to serious losses of armored vehicles of the government troops, because there are no Arena active defense complexes and the Shtora KOEP in their arms. Well, we still don’t have accurate information about the Pentagon’s plans on this subject, which means we can only watch and hope for a speedy military triumph in Palmyra and Aleppo.
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http://www.iarex.ru/articles/53366.html
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2016/12/02/10396427.shtml
https://lenta.ru/news/2016/12/08/obama/
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