Russia has launched its first air strikes in Syria. But they may have missed their targets!
On Sept. 30, the Russian Air Force contingent based at Latakia launched its first air strikes against targets in Syria following the approval from the Russian Duma.
Upon Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s decision Russian Aerospace Forces launched operation against #ISIS in #Syria #BBC http://t.co/BJN0FVnjB2
— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) September 30, 2015
According to the Russian MoD, that has been quite active on Social Media all day, the air strikes targeted 8 ISIS targets in Syria and involved 20 sorties flown by Russian aircraft and hit “military materiel,communication centres, ammunition and fuel depots of IS.”
Now take a look at the following video, that shows some of the targets being attacked by the Russian warplanes.
Although we are unable to ID the weapons used against these targets it looks like that either the targeting pod was aiming somewhere else or the attack missed its target: the first part of the footage (most probably filmed by a drone) shows shrapnels from a bomb possibly exploded south of the target; the second part shows the same target and other shrapnels, but you can also clearly see the blast of a bomb at the bottom of the scene; the third one shows bombs (2 or 3) seemigly missing their target by several meters.
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Image credit: Russian MoD
