
This Infographic says it all you need to know about Putin air war in Syria.
Prepared by CIGeography‘s Louis Martin-Vézian for the Offiziere.ch, the infographic in this post shows the evolution of Russia’s intervention in Syria: from the military build-up, to the deployment of the Russian Air Force attack planes to Latakia, to the air strikes conducted against terrorist targets across the country.
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Many thanks to Louis Martin-Vézian @CIGeography for allowing us to post the infographic on The Aviationist.
The Russian presence in two bases draws a strong arc of Russian aerial control at the heart of Middle East. By boosting its two extremities with state-of-the-art electronic warfare systems, Moscow has imposed a new reality whereby it will soon be almost impossible for any air or ground
force, to go into military action above or inside Syria or Iraq without prior coordination with the Russians.The bricks of Russian domination are now almost all in place.In the last week of September, two Ilyushin-20 (IL-20 Coot) super-surveillance planes stole into Syrian airspace, to provide a major upgrade for the Russian air fleet of Sukhoi-30 fighter jets, cargo planes and attack helicopters gathering for combat in Syria. DETAILS HERE: osnetdaily.com/2015/10/russia-overrides-middle-east-cyber-waves/
Really cool stuff. Very clear and informative. It seems however that the majority of strikes targeted opposition fighters, not ISIS.
On list of AF add 4 Ka-28 Helix :) Istamo weapon storage south east of latakia
My question is how did Russia get a air route over E Europe. I was under the impression that when we got Greece/Turkey to agree to block Russian air flight approval through the Bosphorus that the Russians were have to fly the long way around via Caspian Iran Iraq Syria. If E Europe is so unreliable they cannot hold to a denial of air traffic for Russian actions in Syria are they really that much of allies?
A bit dated (2 weeks late), and quite incomplete. The Moskva surely
isn’t lingering in Tartus as depicted, and it’s S300F(N?) range might be
significantly larger (150-200km).
BTW, persistent rumors of sending Tu22M3s into the fray based in North Ossetia at Mozdok AFB.