A recent media blowout following recent events is probably worth a tiny update of the thread.
Some news of the recent days on Syria:
- French airforces strike Syrian territory from Jordan:
- Some of the results of Frech air strikes:
- French airforce has totaled at 16 sorties for the day.
- French navy is brining its only aircraft to the Eastern mediterranean, has 28 aircrafts deployed on board.
- Putin to the head of navy task force in the region: "Make contact [with French] and work as allies... need to plain joint forces operation on sea and in the air".
- Russian aerospace forces totaled 127 sorties for the day, intended to double the figure.
- Deploys additional forces, incl. strategic and long-range bombers: 5 Tu-160, 6 Tu-95, 14 Tu-22M3m 8 Su-34, 4 Su-27SM and 10 satellites.
- Said additional forces strikes over Syrian territory.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Exhibit C:
Exhibit D:
- Some of the results of said strikes.
A bunch of oil tankers:
Oil refinery:
A cruise missile flyby (supposedly from recent batch):
Supposedely a part of Backfire's payload "landing":
- Recent Russian briefing showed a significant Syrian army and allied forces advance near Aleppo, Palmira and Latakia, especially significant after sluggish start last month.
- One of the map at briefing (surpassingly for those who didn't follow) showed Russian 120 guard artillery brigade being deployed near Hamrat.
- US and Turkey are planning joint forces operation at Turkey-Syria border, it's not specified what part of it.
