Posted on 10/21/2015 3:08:04 PM PDT by marvel5
The pilots of Russia’s aerospace forces’ group in Syria have carried out 46 sorties and hit 83 targets of the terrorists’ infrastructure over the past 24 hours, an official spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said on Wednesday.
"The planes of Russia’s aviation group in Syria made 46 sorties against 83 infrastructure facilities of the IS terrorist organization over the past 24 hours," Konashenkov said.
The planes hit targets in the provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Damascus, Hama, he said.
A facility of the Jabhat al-Nusra group housing a plant manufacturing radio-controlled demolition bombs and also a warehouse with explosive substances was destroyed near Aleppo, he said.
Two nearby trucks that delivered dozens of tons of explosives were also destroyed, he said.
A field camp of the Jabhat al-Nusra group was also found during the aerial reconnaissance in the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Al-Ghab plain.
"The airstrike of Su-25 fighter jets on this facility with its infrastructure - these are places for accommodating gunmen, warehouses and vehicles of terrorists - was destroyed," Konashenkov said.
An Islamic State command and observation post in Syria's Idlib province was destroyed as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at tass.ru ...
Russians — doing the work Americans aren’t allowed to.
Russia isn going to let ISIS parade around in convoys like Obama did.
No wonder the mosques in Syria are urgently calling for blood donations.
I bet there are some pissed Generals at the Pentagon
Kicking ISIS ass can’t be bad even if it’s Russians doing it. With each sortie, putting the lie to the 0bomb’s strategy to “degrade and destroy ISIS” (or ISIL as the 0bomb would say).
Come on people. Thus is Russia we are talking about. Putin has the Russian media whipped back into the good ole USSR shape.
So with that said...take 83 claimed hits, divide by two because they are Russian, that leaves 41 hits, you then have to half that again because they will report hitting the same target twice. So they hit 20 targets.
If there are any of those kind left after 0bamba's purge.
Which is still a lot more than Obama allowed our forces to do in a month.
Yes, I divided then divided again our own reports.
This is the “most transparent administration in history” after all.
That’s still 20 more than our p***y in the White House hit.
TASS is merely quoting the Russian defense ministry spokesman, who holds daily operational briefings for the international press.
If it were untrue or exaggerated, the Pentagon would quickly call them out (they have all the information from satellite, AWACS, drone surveillance). And it hasn’t.
Maybe a couple of Perfumed Princes at the Pentagon are mad, but mostly it’s the gender-sensitive AA placements at the NSA and CIA who are enraged that anti-homosexual Russians are killing anti-Christian Islamic terrorists in Syria.
0dunga created ISIS for the purpose of pushing the Caliphate into Europe. Russia is killing ISIS. Russia gets the ‘World’s #1 superpower’ trophy when all is said and done. America cowers in the corner.
They are using their "Wart-Hog-Ski" to get the job done while the milicrats and perfumed princes in the Senate dither about the A-10's fate.
Beam me up Scotty not an ounce of freakin' brain matter left in the Beltway....
Looking at the footage they released at the beginning of their campaign, I have a hard time seeing them servicing two targets per sortie.
Ivans ROE seems to be “kill everything, let God sort it out”.
Works for me.
Any muzzy you leave alive today will be trying to kill you tomorrow.
But the thousands of new truck they got from Baraq and now they can’t show them off.
Still beats the empty tents and vacant parade grounds Barry selected.
I guess that’s why the terrorists suddenly got a shipment of Stingers.
And in this news today from DoD:
I still don’t know why this fool administration calls it isil instead of isis when the cretins call themselves isis. It irritates the hell out of me.
These are our boys sent on these missions directed by politicians. Our troops don’t make the target list, they just execute the commands. Don’t ridicule our troops and pilots. Ridicule the piss ant politicians and their toady generals.
Our people flew 18 strikes with an undisclosed number of aircraft. We don’t know if the russians count airplanes or targets in their total numbers of strikes. They destroyed buildings and our people destroyed buildings as well.
SOUTHWEST ASIA, October 21, 2015 — U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.
Officials reported details of the latest strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.
Airstrikes in Syria
Attack and fighter aircraft conducted four airstrikes in Syria:
— Near Manbij, four strikes struck four separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed two ISIL structures, two ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL vehicle, and an ISIL resupply point.
Airstrikes in Iraq
Attack, bomber and fighter aircraft conducted 14 airstrikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the government of Iraq:
— Near Kisik, six strikes struck an ISIL vehicle bomb facility and destroyed five separate ISIL staging areas.
— Near Ramadi, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL command and control node, an ISIL bomb, and denied ISIL access to terrain.
— Near Sinjar, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed 14 ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL light machine gun, and an ISIL heavy machine gun.
— Near Sultan Abdallah, one strike suppressed ISIL mortar fire.
— Near Tal Afar, one strike destroyed 16 ISIL fighting positions.
Part of Operation Inherent Resolve
The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the ISIL terrorist group and the threat they pose to Iraq, Syria, and the wider international community. The destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the terrorist group’s ability to project terror and conduct operations, officials said.
Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Iraq include the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Syria include the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
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