The Israeli Air Force has offered new details on strikes against Syria, saying they have in the past two years destroyed roughly a third of all Syrian air defense systems. Syria has fired 844 surface-to-air missiles.
This is a lot of firing and destruction, resulting from regular Israeli airstrikes inside Syria. The Israeli Air Force does, however, predict that they will dial back the number of strikes in Syria going forward.
That’s because despite the destruction, Syria has installed better, more powerful air defenses from Russia, making such incursions a lot more dangerous. Syria has previously prefeerred to use S-200 systems for interceptions, an older system, but the S-300s are available and probably going to be deployed as the S-200s run out.
Israel has spent decades claiming they have technology to beat the Russian-made S-300s, and while Russia has doubted this, Israel seems not to want to test it directly if they can avoid it. Between this and tensions with Hezbollah they’re likely to shift focus elsewhere.
Good analysis piece.
Syria/Russia probably learned a lot about Israeli/U.S. hardware and capabilities as well.
Yup, very effective those Syrian air defenses. They keep Bashar safe as he cowers in his presidential palace.
Every once in a while he comes out and plants flowers using the empty Sarin canisters that the cheapskate saved after using them to gas his own people who opposed him.
He freed up most of Syria, and the terrorists we still protect in Idlib will be done soon. HRS is cowering. Keep on cheering them, they could use your help.
He leveled all Syrian infrastructure in the “caliphate”. Fixed
There’s no proof Assad gassed his own people. Quite the opposite: the U.S. backed al qaeda affiliated proxies and white helmets repeatedly were shown to have created these false flags in order to give the U.S. and it’s salafist jihadist allies the excuse to bomb Syria and Assad’s forces.
No point explaining to those who prefer to be blind. Let them cheer for the remaining terrorists. If that makes them feel better, These folks do not see that Trump has already ceded 1/3 of Syria back to Assad as Turkey a d Russia patrol borders, and Syria and Russia took over the rest from SDF. SDF or Kurds do not control their capital Kobane and more. Now, Trump is talking about putting SDF in charge of oil wells. Means it will get back under government control.
The sane world knows what is up.
Hot air. It is just like here lately. Bestest, greatest, biggest ever. Hope they realize they are not the center of the universe, and the fact that their antics are ignored is not their power. The global restructuring is in progress and they are the small potato taking advantage of the situation. Such short terming can end in sorrows.
How much was added back in over the last 2 years? And what was added back in?
Old missiles blown up or used up. New and better missiles sent from Russia.
“Progress.”
The only progress is that so far Netanyahu frequently flies to Moscow to pre-clear his Air Force strikes, to ensure no conflict with the real antiaircraft systems located in Syria, all Russian-controlled.