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Peter1469
01-10-2018, 07:28 PM
Who is attacking Russia’s bases in Syria (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/who-is-attacking-russias-main-base-in-syria-a-new-mystery-emerges-in-the-war/2018/01/09/4fdaea70-f48d-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_syria-6pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7653064afc1f)

This is interesting, a serious of attacks on Hmeiimim air base are too sophisticated for the local militias. So who is conducting them? I am going to go off the grid and suggest it is a Russian group opposed to Putin or the Russian action in Syria.

It can't be any of the militia, unless the US or Iran is backing them. And that seems much less likely.


A series of mysterious attacks against the main Russian military base in Syria, including one conducted by a swarm of armed miniature drones, has exposed Russia’s continued vulnerability in the country despite recent claims of victory by President Vladimir Putin.

The attacks have also spurred a flurry of questions over who may be responsible for what amounts to the biggest military challenge yet to Russia’s role in Syria, just when Moscow is seeking to wind its presence down.


In the most recent and unusual of the attacks, more than a dozen armed drones descended from an unknown location onto Russia’s vast Hmeimim air base in northwestern Latakia province, the headquarters of Russia’s military operations in Syria, and on the nearby Russian naval base at Tartus.


Russia said that it shot down seven of the 13 drones and used electronic countermeasures to safely bring down the other six. It said no serious damage was caused.


The drone attack, however, came less than a week after two Russian servicemen were killed in a sustained mortar assault on the same base, which appears to have caused some damage to Russian military assets.

Read the rest at the link.

Captdon
01-11-2018, 04:03 PM
Maybe it was You Know Who or aliens.

Peter1469
01-11-2018, 05:59 PM
Maybe it was You Know Who or aliens.

Not likely

jimmyz
01-11-2018, 07:55 PM
The article in Debka file on this topic mentioned satellite assisted navigation was possibly used by the drones. This would be, if true, indicative of help by an advanced nation state. Israel anybody?

Peter1469
01-11-2018, 08:20 PM
The article in Debka file on this topic mentioned satellite assisted navigation was possibly used by the drones. This would be, if true, indicative of help by an advanced nation state. Israel anybody?

It certainly isn't camel jokeyes.