The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced a new series of joint missions flown by the Russian and Syrian air forces, including over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
The countermeasure could confuse certain missiles during a conflict and obscure activities from some surveillance capabilities.
Reports suggest four of the Flanker fighters have arrived at the airbase that sits on the Turkish border, close to U.S. forces.
Israel launched the satellite, Ofek 16, which carries a camera system, the very existence of which was previously classified, last month.
MQ-9s in unusual configurations have been seen in the area following a strike involving the Hellfire missile variant with pop-out sword-like blades.
These tiny drones give even small units a significant boost in situational awareness.
Turkey and Russia have cut a deal that will put a new ceasefire in place between forces aligned with Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad and anti-regime forces in northwestern Syria. It also lays out plans for a formal buffer zone between the two groups that Turkish and Russian troops will patrol together.
The conflict in Syria has entered a new, dangerous, and uncertain phase as Russian troops have escorted forces aligned with Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad into the country’s hotly contested Idlib province. This comes a day after Turkey officially declared a major intervention in that region, shooting down multiple Syrian Air Force combat jets in its opening stages.
Video emerged this past weekend that shows Turkish-backed Syrian forces in a tracked armored personnel carrier jousting with and then ramming a T-72 tank belonging to forces aligned with Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad. This incident occurred in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province and came just a day after an equally unusual road-rage incident between U.S. and Russian forces on the other side of the country.
The Turkish government has reportedly asked its American counterparts to deploy a pair of Patriot surface-to-air missile system batteries along its southern border with Syria. This news came amid the announcement of the death of two Turkish troops, and the wounding of five more, in an airstrike in northwestern Syria. The request is politically fraught from the start due to a number of factors, including an ongoing spat between Turkey and the United States in part over the former’s purchase of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems and the risks of sparking a wider conflict if American air defenders were to shoot down a Russian combat jet.
