The secret role of the French Navy Auvergne frigate in operations in Syria. So who did he attack?
The French Ministry of Defense has published a report on the progress of the so-called Operation Shammal (Chammal) in Syria and Iraq. The publication appeared against the background of a French public question about the role of the French Navy frigate Auvergne off the coast of Syria at the time of the tragedy with the Russian Il-20 aircraft. We are talking about a multi-purpose frigate, designed not only for anti-submarine defense and air defense, but also for striking land targets.
Questions from French specialists to the Navy of the Republic appeared due to the fact that in the press there were allegations that from the board of the frigate Auvergne rocket attacks on “Iranian objects in Syria” were launched. The generalized question to the command of the French naval forces sounds like this: President Macron states that he, unlike the United States, is in favor of continuing cooperation with Tehran, for preserving the nuclear agreement, but how can one understand the attack on Iranian targets in this case? Syria, if it were really strikes on Iranian military facilities?
Instead of specific explanations of what Auvergne after all, did off the coast of Syria and, if struck, from whom he received the order, in the French military department presented the statistics of their participation in the operation mentioned above Chammal.
Here are the data from the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France:
During the operation, 2014 trained thousands of troops in Iraq with French instructors since 9,5. The French Air Force carried out 8477 sorties, striking 1457. 1911 artillery strikes struck against terrorist targets on the ground. Destroyed 2249 targets. Freed from LIH (* banned in the Russian Federation) 99% of territories previously occupied by militants. Currently, 1 air base is used to continue the operation, another base is planned for use. The operation involved 10 aircraft Rafale, 1 naval patrol ship, 1 frigate in the eastern Mediterranean (the Auvergne, - approx. "VO"), three 155-mm self-propelled artillery mounts CAESAR, 1,1 ths. Military.
В text description the operations of the French troops from September 2014, there is not a single note that the French troops struck at Iranian facilities in Syria or Hezbollah. At the same time, there are reports of participation in the "liberation of Raqqa" (proof of the involvement of the French Air Force in carpet bombing), of an attack in the SAR for "the complete destruction of ISIS *".
Assuming that Auvergne struck not at Iranian facilities, but at ISIS militants in Idlib province, then in that case how does this fit in with the statements of Paris about supporting the agreements between Moscow and Ankara, aimed at rejecting the CAA from the Idlib operation? After all, Macron himself declared that it was impossible to attack Idlib, since the civilian population would suffer. And surely none of the civilians will suffer rocket attacks from a French frigate?
Questions from French specialists to the Navy of the Republic appeared due to the fact that in the press there were allegations that from the board of the frigate Auvergne rocket attacks on “Iranian objects in Syria” were launched. The generalized question to the command of the French naval forces sounds like this: President Macron states that he, unlike the United States, is in favor of continuing cooperation with Tehran, for preserving the nuclear agreement, but how can one understand the attack on Iranian targets in this case? Syria, if it were really strikes on Iranian military facilities?
Instead of specific explanations of what Auvergne after all, did off the coast of Syria and, if struck, from whom he received the order, in the French military department presented the statistics of their participation in the operation mentioned above Chammal.
Here are the data from the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France:
During the operation, 2014 trained thousands of troops in Iraq with French instructors since 9,5. The French Air Force carried out 8477 sorties, striking 1457. 1911 artillery strikes struck against terrorist targets on the ground. Destroyed 2249 targets. Freed from LIH (* banned in the Russian Federation) 99% of territories previously occupied by militants. Currently, 1 air base is used to continue the operation, another base is planned for use. The operation involved 10 aircraft Rafale, 1 naval patrol ship, 1 frigate in the eastern Mediterranean (the Auvergne, - approx. "VO"), three 155-mm self-propelled artillery mounts CAESAR, 1,1 ths. Military.
В text description the operations of the French troops from September 2014, there is not a single note that the French troops struck at Iranian facilities in Syria or Hezbollah. At the same time, there are reports of participation in the "liberation of Raqqa" (proof of the involvement of the French Air Force in carpet bombing), of an attack in the SAR for "the complete destruction of ISIS *".
Assuming that Auvergne struck not at Iranian facilities, but at ISIS militants in Idlib province, then in that case how does this fit in with the statements of Paris about supporting the agreements between Moscow and Ankara, aimed at rejecting the CAA from the Idlib operation? After all, Macron himself declared that it was impossible to attack Idlib, since the civilian population would suffer. And surely none of the civilians will suffer rocket attacks from a French frigate?
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