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The Russian navy created a de facto aerial defense zone to protect its Syria bases
Business Insider ^ | October 6, 2015 | Jeremy Bender

Posted on 10/06/2015 12:09:15 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

A large deployment of ships that Russia sent to the eastern Mediterranean under the guise of naval exercises at the end of September are actually being used to provide an aerial defense zone for Russian jets, Sam LaGrone reports for USNI News.

The "Black Sea-based Russian surface action group" in the eastern Mediterranean are based along Syria's coast by the Bassel al-Assad Airport and the Tartous naval facility, which is home to a Russian port.

The ships are intended to provide aerial defense for the Russian aircraft that Moscow is currently using to carry out airstrikes against Syrian rebels throughout the country.

Although not directly stated by official channels, the aerial defense zone is likely intended as defense against hypothetical US or coalition airstrikes against the Russian airstrips.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chief; in; muslim; russia; syria
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BI continues their shilling for Obama, Syrian "rebels", and Christian killing Islamic Terrorists.
1 posted on 10/06/2015 12:09:15 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Ships can be sunk by torpedoes, mines, bombs, missiles and gunfire.


2 posted on 10/06/2015 12:11:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do you want to pull the trigger on the Russians?


3 posted on 10/06/2015 12:14:01 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Navy Patriot

You’re one of the biggest Putin butt kissers on the site, so-called “Navy Patriot”.


4 posted on 10/06/2015 12:14:41 PM PDT by ETL (So many idiots, not enough time)
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To: Timber Rattler

Where did I say “us?”


5 posted on 10/06/2015 12:15:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hmmm. Does ISIS have an air force? Nope.

So, they are hardening against someone else. Who would want to AND who could nail Russian airplanes using an air attack.

Who could: US, Israel or Turkey.
Who would want to [and why]: ???


6 posted on 10/06/2015 12:15:40 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Darteaus94025

That was my question... against whom?


7 posted on 10/06/2015 12:16:44 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Darteaus94025

So.. that has me thinking that it’s against us. But we wouldn’t attack them for what they are currently doing. So what are they getting ready to do?


8 posted on 10/06/2015 12:18:04 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Darteaus94025

It shows they are prepared for anything unlike us at the moment, hell all we have is to fund Islamic nuts who behead people and let ISIS create their little empire.


9 posted on 10/06/2015 12:18:19 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Navy Patriot

I don’t know how good the Russian troops and equipment are, but their leaders are doing quite a job on this operation.

Control.....advance. Control.....advance. Use Combined Arms.

Thorough and methodical.

Very professional.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 12:18:46 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Darteaus94025

The Saudis and Qataris also have air forces and are also virulently anti-Assad (to say nothing of the Saudis animus toward the Russian oil industry).


11 posted on 10/06/2015 12:19:45 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Darteaus94025

Trump: Iran Deal Requires U.S. Protecting Iran in Event of Israeli Strike

by Jacob Kornbluh
Sept 2, 2015

In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there’s “something in the Iran deal” that “people don’t understand” saying if someone attacks Iran, “we have to come to their defense.”

“Does that include Israel?” Trump asked. “And most people say yes, they don’t have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel.” ..."

Trump was most probably referring to language highlighted by the opponents of the deal. On page 142, the deal includes a clause that states, “Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.”

Washington-based Center for Security Policy asserted that Annex III appears “to commit the United States and other world powers to the defense of Iran’s nuclear program.”

http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/02/trump-iran-deal-requires-u-s-protecting-iran-in-event-of-israeli-strike/
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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran’s Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran’s Quds Force commander — their chief exporter of terror — and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ...”

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ...”

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they’ve seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants — some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/

12 posted on 10/06/2015 12:20:14 PM PDT by ETL (So many idiots, not enough time)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These are most likely the guys who were involved in that incident with the Israeli F15’s yesterday. The administration was trying to characterize it as a deliberate provocation, the Russians probably just saw them coming up the coast and scrambled air assets to protect their base. Pretty predictable response.


13 posted on 10/06/2015 12:20:38 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: ETL

Is that you Senator McCarthy?


14 posted on 10/06/2015 12:22:26 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: SpinnerWebb

They’re anticipating us declaring a no fly zone. We’re less likely to risk it if they have formidable assets to resist it.


15 posted on 10/06/2015 12:23:08 PM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: SpinnerWebb

The Israelis have been flying off the coast, and over Syria for some time now. Russians warned them away from a base yesterday.


16 posted on 10/06/2015 12:23:18 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Navy Patriot

Well, I guess the de-conflicting is complete. Doesn’t sound like 0bama or Kerry were consulted, though!


17 posted on 10/06/2015 12:23:46 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: Navy Patriot

“BI continues their shilling for Obama..”

I don’t see that in this article.


18 posted on 10/06/2015 12:24:32 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: ETL

Thanks for keeping your Homofascista shill on the job, George.

19 posted on 10/06/2015 12:26:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: AdmSmith

pong


20 posted on 10/06/2015 12:35:16 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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