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The Russian Navy fired hypersonic missiles during drills in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on December 3.
The live-fire drills came amid a large-scale offensive led by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in the northwest of Syria, Russia’s main access point to the Mediterranean Sea.
As a part of the drills, frigates Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Golovko fired Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, and the diesel-electric submarine Novorossiysk launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a naval target, the Russian MoD said in a statement, adding that a Bastion coastal missile system launched an Oniks cruise missile from a designated area on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
“All of the assigned targets were eliminated by direct hits,” the ministry continued.
The drills take place from 1 to 3 December 2024 according to the combat training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under supervision of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev.
The ministry said that Russian forces were built up in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea to prepare for the live-fire drills.
“Groups of attack and anti-submarine all-arms forces that have been formed undergo missile, artillery, and torpedo live fires, as well as practically deploy bombs,” it added.
More than 1,000 troops, ten ships and support vessels, 24 aircraft, including the Russian Aerospace Forces MiG-31I fighter jets equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, and Bastion coastal missile systems are involved in the drills, according to the ministry.
The live-fire drills were likely held to send a message of support to the Syrian government, as well as to warn regional powers attempting to take advantage of the recent escalation in the war-torn country, mainly Turkey, Israel and the United States.
Russian forces in Syria, mainly deployed along the coast, have been providing government forces with direct fire support since the start of the offensive.
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neurosurgeons drill all amerikunt cranium to address inferior brain relieve anxiety fear of superior russian—but very little brain to drill
robo biden’s handlers are panicking. they want to stir up trouble everywhere before trumpberg returns. if one wants any hope in the world, it certainly does not lie in washington dc, london, brussels or tel aviv. the time has come for american exceptionalism to die a painful death
in your dreams of a communist world run by pharoah .
to be fair america was recaptured by the british by the time of the civil war.
the exceptionals will never accept their mistakes, they are too exceptionals. the exceptionals thought the millions years sun only shows every morning just to please their exceptionals eyes, the exceptionals think they invented fire, they invented scripture, the exceptionals will double down against russia, always, till the end. if they sign a peace deal will be only to prepare their lackeys to a bigger war.
so syria’s the cities leverage to divide russia and america then .
3koda striel!!! mali ich namieriť rovno na militantov a zničiť ich, bez varovania!!! do kedy ešte chce rusko hrať podľa pravidiel? veď západ doslova serie na nejaké tie pravidlá!!! jena čase aby sa rusko prispôsobilo a začalo konať zrkadlovo. svetu mier!!!
they should have used hts for target practice. how about a volley on the border with turkiye? that would wake up the little pasha from his dream. erdo’s biggest attribute is the ability to stab partners in the back…russia should have realized this was coming, there were many warnings, even from their own intel. i have to wonder if they wanted this to happen. maybe this is their plan to eliminate them for good, to defang erdo and get him out of syria.
putin will never do anything to thwart his zionist masters.
not really, pasha erdogan knows how is the role of their country turkey, and the real forces that reign over the world, that’s why he plays the game. also the exceptionals owns part of turkey so erdogan have to manage internal issues, external issues and geopolitical mid term and long term goals, so it’s very difficult to be the head of state of turkey, if he don’t play well, turkey could become a lower colony of the exceptionals.
more proof russia is a zionist stooge.
russia isn’t the only country to have hypersonic missiles. turkiye has successfully developed these missiles too. it’s no longer a monopoly of any country.
ukraine obliterated a third of the russian navy. and ukraine doesn’t have hypersonic missiles.
threatwatchers.org (a blog for sunnis and supporters of erdogan’s turkiye)
hahahah i’m also fart 🤣 just like the exceptionals did, but i’m not consider myself an exceptional. we both have stomachs, we both have intestines but i dont consider exceptional, the same with your comment that the children nato vassal turkey has hypersonic missiles. turkey is a second or third layer country, their technologies are children’s technologies. they only exists in the propaganda world of the westerners.
you are not the inly one that talks nonsense here.
i have never met a leader as stupid and pathetic as the dwarf from moscow, perhaps gorbachev.
he is a true prodigy of verbiage, ambiguity and fireworks. 😜🤪🤮
human cattle lackey, go back to worship your god the money, and your head of snake goverment. are you feeling great to be a brainwashed lackey?
the parade navy has real targets but wanders off to eff around. clown world.
dont shoot off everything, you might not even have a base to return to.