Posted on 11/20/2015 8:39:07 AM PST by tcrlaf
Russian warships from the Caspian flotilla have launched 18 cruise missiles on terrorist targets in Syria, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.
"On November 20, warships of the Caspian Flotilla have launched 18 cruise missiles on seven [terrorist] targets in the provinces of Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo. All targets were destroyed," Shoigu said in a report to president Vladimir Putin.
"In the whole, during the aerial operation cruise missile were launched from the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas over a distance of up to 1,500 km, and aircraft were taking off from Russian and Syrian airfields. From the Caspian Sea, 29 aircraft of the long-range and bomber aviation were involved in the airstrikes."
According to Shoigu, ten ships are involved in Russia's military operations in Syria, six of them are in the Mediterranean Sea.
"In the past four days, Russia's strategic and tactical aviation carried out 522 combat sorties, a total of 101 air-and sea-based cruise missiles were launched, some 1,400 tonnes of bombs of various types were dropped."
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There’s not much trust in any media reports, but the Russian’s are going to be the least trustworthy.
Iranian F-14 Tomcats escorting Russian Air Force Tu-95MS Bear H
See 1:20 for F-14 Tomcats and 1:13 F-4 Phantom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ascSnBbxfaU
LOL, I should know better than to not put a sarcasm tag on it...that’s on me.
I was considering how much that is, and if a B-1B can take off with half a fuel load with the bomb load bringing it up to its maximum takeoff weight, it looks like a B-1B could carry about 50 tons of bombs into the air and get refueled as needed.
That would be about 7 fully loaded B-1B aircraft a day dropping their loads each day for four days. My assumptions about how often they take off at the maximum takeoff weight or what mix of fuel and bombs a B-1B would use is just speculation with some facts backing it up.
I presume that is a lot of iron bombs...the Russkies are dropping.
I am glad he is bombing them.
But I have zero respect for him.
I said more respect for him than for Zero. So zero respect works.
heh, true, that.
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