A drone believed to belong to a Syrian Islamist faction has attempted to attack the Russian airbase at Hmeimim, near the coastal Syrian city of Latakia. The guards managed to shoot down the drone before it was able to bomb anything.
The craft was described as an engine taped to a wooden frame, and carrying a pair of”home-made land mines,” which it would apparently have used to attack a plane parked on the runway or some other target at the base.
This sort of “makeshift” drone has become increasingly popular in Syria, offering rebels a way to deliver inexpensive flying bombs against enemy targets for an extremely low price.
This is the same airbase that sustained substantial damage from rebel artillery strikes just last week, when several Russian warplanes were damaged. This likely had the guards at the base on much higher alert than usual.
The “substantial damage” part is claimed only by the usual US suspects but denied by the Russians, who has been very open with their losses throughout the US war on Syria.
That the US is testing the Russian defences by proxies (along worth the usual provocations by fighter jets coming in from the Med) is cause for concern, given the CIA & Pentagram killing spree on no less than 8 Russian officials in 2016, the “heart attacked” Russian ambassador to U.N. most notably and a Russian major and several servicemen in 2017 not to mention the direct US attack on a Syrian airbase at an emotional request from Ivanka & Kuchner.
Now prove the United States government was involved in the heart attack of a Russian official.And I guess if the Russians say they didn’t lose any aircraft that always means there telling the truth. Hahahaha…So gullible or on the payroll either way I don’t believe in conspiracy theories Keith how bout some actual facts not enemy sympathizer propaganda FACTS!!!
The Russian track record on veracity beats the US by a mile.
We’re still waiting for the Deep State to present any evidence on it’s hysterical accusations of “meddling” by the Russians.
After the fake WMD claims that got us stuck in Iraq for going on 15 years, you’re still swilling their cool aid… Does it taste that good?
I didn’t believe Iraq had wmd’s and I believe removing Saddam Hussein was a huge mistake. Please try to spin your ignorant comparisons of a free society like America and the nations that you’d be executed by for criticizing to someone else. I actually have a brain to decide what I believe and not everything I’m told by my government and a foreign enemy. Food for thought now enjoy your Kool aid spin master.
I didn’t believe Iraq had wmd’s and I believe removing Saddam Hussein was a huge mistake
Yeah, that’s what all the neocons say – now… I find that as hard to believe as your claim to an actual brain, especially after that hysterical “Russia is the ENEMY” rant.
Go have another one.
Yeah that’s what all the neo- cons say don’t lump me in with your momma after we were in rolled over and smoked a cigarette she rolled over and smoked a turkey… Hahahaha… she a biggie
Typical ad hominem response , the hallmark of the neocon. Sooner or later they all resort to it. In this case it was sooner.. You excel are stupidity – even for your ilk.
Sadly my (US) government has no credibility any more on anything. Anything that comes out of its mouth is a lie. Anything that it does is bad for its citizenry and the world (excepting the wealthy of course). Please continue to yell from the rooftops.
Fewer and fewer are listening.
I don’t know how you can say that you and your brain dead buddies on this site all responded.
Cowboy is a good moniker for a cold war ignoramus.
O I upset Rosemerry someone who criticizes an actual democracy while defending the nations of an oppressed society. Please go find someone else to troll or add something of substance and save your insults no one cares.
MRDitz according to RT it happened Saturday night and there were 13 ‘sofisticated GPS controlled remote detonating capable’ drones. The Russians had to activate their Pantzir systems to deal w. it. SO nothing ‘made of wood planks and ropes’.
WTF is a “Syrian Islamist faction”?