Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

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https://twitter.com/x/status/762928725532868610

 

[ptldM3]

Translation: you are talking out of your *** again until u can bring up sources to back up your ridiculous claims stay quite, because your just going to embarrass your self more

Yes @500 he is taking out of his *** again. I have had this argument with him before. Russian military spending increases every year even during and after the 2008 recession it increased. Inflation is also a major factor since soldiers need food and other necessities everyday. These necessities arnt free.

 

[500]

Even in best times when oil was 120$ Russia military spends never grew 1.5 times in one year. Now Russia is in deep crisis and military spends grew 1.5 times!

So in order to support 2K Russian soldiers, 30 jets and 24 helicopters and dozen of tanks they spent some 10 bln $.

But they also need to support 150 K Assadists, 100+ jets, 100+ helicopters over thousand of tanks.

+ some 10 million Assad population.

Thats crazy spends.

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

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Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War

Date : 30 September 2015 – present (10 months, 1 week and 2 days)


Quote :

This is how much Russia's 'war' in Syria costs

Holly Ellyatt
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015 | 6:17 AM ET

Russian air strikes in Syria are costing up to $4 million per day, according to data collected by a defense think tank for the Moscow Times newspaper.

Data collected by IHS Jane's, a renowned intelligence provider for the defense industry and governments, showed that bombing raids, supply runs, infrastructure and ground personnel — along with a salvo of cruise missiles fired into the conflict zone — have cost Russia between $80 million and $115 million since strikes began on September 30.

Compared to Russia's 3.1 trillion ruble ($50 billion) defense budget for 2015, the figure appears low but the Kremlin could see its costs and commitments grow, the Moscow Times reported.

Russia is currently struggling economically on the back of international sanctions placed on the country for its annexation of Crimea in 2013 and role in the pro-Russian uprising in east Ukraine last year.

Sanctions provoked investor caution over Russia which saw capital outflows and a fall in the ruble's value as a result. That, coupled with the sharp decline in oil prices, has contributed to Russia's parlous economic situation, yet, still it has willingly embarked on what could be a costly enterprise in Syria.

Ostensibly involving itself in the civil war in the Middle Eastern nation in order to help an alliance of western powers trying to combat the terrorist group that calls itself "Islamic State," many believe that Russia's real aim is to prop up the regime of controversial Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad and to prevent more western influence in the region.

Russia reported on Wednesday that Assad had flown to Moscow on Tuesday evening to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support but it was not said whether Assad had returned home.

Russia's intervention has certainly been welcomed by Assad. The country already has a naval base in Syria and has been granted use of an airbase, allowing it to employ ships, aircraft and military personnel on the ground in combat. In fact, Putin has made much of the fact that Russia was invited to intervene whereas the west was acting without any U.N. Security Council resolution.

More than 50 Russian warplanes and helicopters are conducting airstrikes on the positions of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said, according to Russia's TASS news agency.

Although precise data is hard to come by, IHS Jane's said each warplane costs $12,000 per hour to fly and each helicopter costs $3,000 per hour.

With the tempo of bombing runs keeping the planes in the sky for 90 minutes a day on average and choppers flying one hour per day, Moscow is spending around $710,000 every 24 hours, IHS said. Each day, they drop around $750,000 worth of munitions.

In terms of personnel, they cost around $440,000 per day to support, IHS estimated. Keeping the ships in the Mediterranean requires a further $200,000. Other supporting costs, such as logistics, intelligence gathering, communications and engineering, add $250,000 per day. That means the minimum cost of keeping this operation going is $2.4 million per day.

CNBC


Calculating the Cost of Russia's War in Syria (The Moscow Times) Oct. 20 2015 - 22:31 By Peter Hobson



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https://southfront.org/2000-terrorists-killed-in-10-days-of-tough-battle-with-syrian-army-in-aleppo/

In the last ten days, 2,000 members of Jeish al-Fatah terrorist group were killed and many others were wounded in clashes with the Syrian government forces in the southern and southwestern parts of Aleppo city, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.

Several rounds of Jeish al-Fatah’s offensives, targeted to lift the Syrian army’s siege on Aleppo, were repelled by the Syrian troops in the last ten days. As result, at least 2,000 terrorists were killed and many more were wounded.

According to several commanders within the ranks of the Syrian army and Hezbollah, the western states, especially the US warships deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, are providing logistical aid and intelligence support for the terrorists in Aleppo. The latest intelligence operations by the resistance forces showed that intelligence is sent by the US warships to Jeish al-Fatah terrorists in Syria.

“The western countries’ warships are providing the terrorists with information and intel about the resistance forces’ moves round the clock and they [the terrorists] continue their operations with the help of the very same information,” Fars quoted the words of a sources in the resistance forces.

At the same time, the terrorists have received hundreds of anti-armored TOW missiles by their trans-regional supporters through the allies in the region.

“The Jeish al-Fatah members seek to break the siege of their comrades in Aleppo while the Hezbollah resistance forces are showing strong resistance against them with the least possibilities,” a member of the resistance forces said.

On Monday, the sources also said that the aim of the Jeish al-Fatah’s non-stop attacks in Aleppo was evacuation of a number of Western and Turkish officers trapped in militant-held districts of the city of Aleppo.

“Several military advisors and trainers, working for the terrorist groups were trapped in Eastern Aleppo and have been transferred to militant-held regions in Southern Aleppo via Jeish al-Fatah-established corridors in al-Ramousiyeh,” Fars quoted the sources.

After seven phases of massive operations by over 9,000 terrorists on multiple fronts in Eastern, Southern and Southwestern Aleppo in the last five days, the US-backed Jeish al-Fatah coalition of 22 terrorist groups failed to break the siege except for one very narrow stretch of land in the Southwest that is under hell fire by the Russian air force and Syrian artillery units. Over 800 Jeish al-Fatah terrorists have been killed only in the Eastern frontline, while, according to the latest Sunday’s reports, Jeish al-Fatah has lost 1,200 terrorists in the South. The terrorists took control over three of the five Army Academies, but later they were fired by the Russian warplanes and attacked by the Syrian artillery units.

Meantime, according to the resistance forces, at least 2,000 fresh popular forces have arrived in Aleppo to join the Syrian army’ war against Jeish al-Fatah terrorists in the Southern parts of the city.

“The newly-arrived resistance fighters are specialists in street war and know very well different tactics of battling against the well-equipped terrorists,” the sources said.

The Syrian Army troops, the National Defense Forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces, the Iraqi resistance movements including al-Nujaba, Iranian military advisors (IRGC and Army), and the popular forces from Nubl and al-Zahra have participated in joint operations in Aleppo.

 

[T-Rex]

Erdogan is visiting Moscow, it'll be interesting to see the effect of his visit in Syria.

 

[ptldM3]

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Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War

Date : 30 September 2015 – present (10 months, 1 week and 2 days)


Quote :

This is how much Russia's 'war' in Syria costs

Holly Ellyatt
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015 | 6:17 AM ET

Russian air strikes in Syria are costing up to $4 million per day, according to data collected by a defense think tank for the Moscow Times newspaper.

Data collected by IHS Jane's, a renowned intelligence provider for the defense industry and governments, showed that bombing raids, supply runs, infrastructure and ground personnel — along with a salvo of cruise missiles fired into the conflict zone — have cost Russia between $80 million and $115 million since strikes began on September 30.

Compared to Russia's 3.1 trillion ruble ($50 billion) defense budget for 2015, the figure appears low but the Kremlin could see its costs and commitments grow, the Moscow Times reported.

Russia is currently struggling economically on the back of international sanctions placed on the country for its annexation of Crimea in 2013 and role in the pro-Russian uprising in east Ukraine last year.

Sanctions provoked investor caution over Russia which saw capital outflows and a fall in the ruble's value as a result. That, coupled with the sharp decline in oil prices, has contributed to Russia's parlous economic situation, yet, still it has willingly embarked on what could be a costly enterprise in Syria.

Ostensibly involving itself in the civil war in the Middle Eastern nation in order to help an alliance of western powers trying to combat the terrorist group that calls itself "Islamic State," many believe that Russia's real aim is to prop up the regime of controversial Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad and to prevent more western influence in the region.

Russia reported on Wednesday that Assad had flown to Moscow on Tuesday evening to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support but it was not said whether Assad had returned home.

Russia's intervention has certainly been welcomed by Assad. The country already has a naval base in Syria and has been granted use of an airbase, allowing it to employ ships, aircraft and military personnel on the ground in combat. In fact, Putin has made much of the fact that Russia was invited to intervene whereas the west was acting without any U.N. Security Council resolution.

More than 50 Russian warplanes and helicopters are conducting airstrikes on the positions of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said, according to Russia's TASS news agency.

Although precise data is hard to come by, IHS Jane's said each warplane costs $12,000 per hour to fly and each helicopter costs $3,000 per hour.

With the tempo of bombing runs keeping the planes in the sky for 90 minutes a day on average and choppers flying one hour per day, Moscow is spending around $710,000 every 24 hours, IHS said. Each day, they drop around $750,000 worth of munitions.

In terms of personnel, they cost around $440,000 per day to support, IHS estimated. Keeping the ships in the Mediterranean requires a further $200,000. Other supporting costs, such as logistics, intelligence gathering, communications and engineering, add $250,000 per day. That means the minimum cost of keeping this operation going is $2.4 million per day.

CNBC


Calculating the Cost of Russia's War in Syria (The Moscow Times) Oct. 20 2015 - 22:31 By Peter Hobson



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This 4 million per day estimate includes the cruise missiles Russia fired as well as operating the more costly SU-25 which were withdrawn.

If this article is correct Russia only spend 1.2 billion, actually much less because Russia started using helicopters more extensively which is cheaper to operate and withdrew SU-25s. Moreover, Cruise missiles are rarely, if ever, used which inflated the original 4 million per day cost.


We had one member saying Russia spend 30 billion so far

 

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Additional RuAF getting redeployed to Syria....

 

[500]

Obama job in Syria:

Before:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20141020225934!Syrian_civil_war.png

After:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Syrian_civil_war.png

Putin Khamenai job in Syria:

Before:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20151007084822!Syrian_civil_war.png

After:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Syrian_civil_war.png

 

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Heavy airstrikes by SyAF and RuAF in S and W Aleppo

 

[patientlion212]

Even in best times when oil was 120$ Russia military spends never grew 1.5 times in one year. Now Russia is in deep crisis and military spends grew 1.5 times!

So in order to support 2K Russian soldiers, 30 jets and 24 helicopters and dozen of tanks they spent some 10 bln $.

But they also need to support 150 K Assadists, 100+ jets, 100+ helicopters over thousand of tanks.

+ some 10 million Assad population.

Thats crazy spends.

r u against that ? i don't understand, everything Russia n Iran r doing is in favor of Israel, imagine if they pull out, the terrorists will take over n march towards u, they r in Daraa in the south, not more than 125 KM from Jerusalem !!

 

[Star Wars]

AM hearing news that the E.Aleppo Siege is in effect again....

 

[Aero]

interesting read, didn't get this bit though


I thought they were under siege and encircled from all fronts, how were they getting supplies from outside help then ?

Not in Aleppo city itself but in Idlib and areas bordering Turkey under opposition control.

 

[500]

r u against that ? i don't understand, everything Russia n Iran r doing is in favor of Israel, imagine if they pull out, the terrorists will take over n march towards u, they r in Daraa in the south, not more than 125 KM from Jerusalem !!

I am against starving, gassing and barrel bombing children. Those who do it must be hang high together with their supporters.

 

[United]

Putin is short