International Military Review – Syria-Iraq battlespace – Nov. 19, 2015

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About 500 ISIS fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by the Russia’s Air Forces, Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov said.

This week, Russia has dramatically increased its military operations in Syria. Russia is using long-range aviation bombers – Tu-22M3, Tu-95MC and Tu-160 – to target terrorist positions. Also, on Tuesday, the Russian cruiser Moskva fired a number of cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea and the militants’ positions at the ISIS Syrian capital, Raqqa. This was just the start. Russian army Gen. Valery Gerasimov has announced that Russia is allocating 25 strategic bombers for the Syrian mission. Separately, Russian Air Forces will be strengthened with advanced 37 aircraft, including eight Su-34 bomber jets and four Su-27 fighter jets. Thus, Moscow is more than doubling the strike potential of the Russian Air Force in the region.

Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces will organize joint military operations with the French Navy to combat terrorists in Syria. According to chief of the main operations directorate of Russian army’s General Staff Andrey Kartapolov, it becomes possible with the arrival of the Charles de Gaulle warship to the Syrian shore. The sides are working on a draft plan for joint action on the sea and in the air.

France has also ramped up their air campaign against ISIS over the past days. Francois Hollande will meet Putin in Moscow on Nov. 26. A public idea of the event is to discuss how the countries’ militaries might work together.

The joint fight against ISIS may cause Russia and the West, as a first step France, to collaborate more closely in Syria. There are still limits to that cooperation because too many sides have different interests in the region. But it will become a step on the way to find a diplomatic solution of the crisis.

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Yannick Meyer

Great News everyone

Komninos

Are there any news about the ground operations??

Dr. Ronald Cutburth

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Dr. Ronald Cutburth

Seems to me the Russian Ty-160 is the most beautiful aircraft ever build, surpassing all military and civilian aircraft. The surprise is it was built by the scientists of the USSR. Several other dynamic Russian aircraft were also build by the USSR. And now we have the outgrowth of that technology to deliver to the world other Russian aircraft. They are all far superior to anything built by anyone in the world. Those aircraft with their destructive power against the terrorists are more apt to finally give us peace for a while. Dr. Ronald Cutburth, engineering scientist, intelligence expert.