Watch Russian warships launch cruise missiles against targets in Syria from the Caspian Sea

October 7, 2015 Russia, Syria, Troubled Areas, War on ISIS, Weapons
David Cenciotti

Impressive footage shows Russian ships launch cruise missiles against ISIS targets from the Caspian Sea.

Early in the morning on Oct. 7, Russia warships belonging to the Russian Navy’s Caspian Sea Strike Group launched 26 cruise missiles against Islamic State targets located in Syria.

The missile used to conduct the attack is the 3M14TE Kalibr-NK with a maximum range of 2,600 km, fired by a strike group consisting of the Dagestan missile ship, the small-sized missile ships Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich, Veliky Ustyug.

According to the Russia’s MoD, the cruise missiles “engaged all the assigned targets successfully and with high accuracy.”

As the animation included in the released video shows, the cruise missiles overflew Iran and Iraq before reaching their targets at low level.

The following footage shows the warships launching the Kalibr-NKs, proving Russia is able to conduct a US-like cruise missiles attack on a range of 1,000 km.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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3 Comments

  1. The Tomahawk is Subsonic meaning the S300 S400 + Pantsir will shoot them all down. Nothing the US has will shoot down the Kalibr hyper sonic sprint. Nothing. How many launchers does the Arleigh Burke have? 10? You clearly dont get Kalibr is aircraft launch capable do you?

  3. I never mentioned Russia anywhere and I am not even Russian.

    Your comments >
    “We do NOT oppress people.All you Russians* do is bring misery and death. Using cluster bombs is your idea of helping?”

    I think you mistakenly added “Russians” instead of US. Just look at the world view, its more like US is isolated now, not Russia. If a country does what US wants, its not because of Respect. its fear of “US democracy” and the funny thing is US is not even a democratic country, more like Republic.

    About Ukraine.. to ask who? Western or Eastern people? You know nothing about Russia and Ukraine relationship and their history. You are just a keyboard warrior and I am wasting my time replying to 18 days old comment. Anyways, whatever floats your boat, have fun.

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