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Russia just told the best joke I’ve heard in ages;
“Russia also recommends that Washington pull out those valuable employees who were trained at the expense of American taxpayers,” — General Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff – Link to SANA – Syrian Arab News Agency
P.S. original text slightly altered. DR
I read your link.Haha,that was awesome.
I think by now all those sanctions have cultivated a high degree of sarcasm on Russians :-)
A question for missile experts;
In her fight against terrorism, Russia uses [among others] theBetAB 500 ShP (БЕТАБ 500 ШП) This Concrete Piercing bomb is a modern design, parachute retarded, thick cased High Explosive blast and fragmentation bomb designed to penetrate re-enforced targets such as bunkers then explode to produce destructive effect through blast overpressure and the fragmentation of the casing. link to cat-uxo.
Doesn’t the ‘parachute retarded‘ part, greatly reduce precision and accurate delivery, especially in comparison to the KAB-500 guided and corrected bombs? – link to ktrv.ru
Thank you in advance.
@Daniel Rich: from my military guru
Oct 3 at 10:06 PM
S-300 is a multi layer air defense system that uses 4 missiles, each one with a particular range (each one covers a layer), range up to 300 km and also can intercept short range ballistic missiles. The S-300 is a battery.
The S-22 is usually knows as the Pantzyr S-1 is a short range missile system, its a anti missile defense system to protect high value targets. The Pantzyr S-1 protects the S-300 from missile attacks that evaded the S-300 defenses (like in saturation attacks, etc). They work together.
(Also for other systems: parachute dynamics are worked out very carefully. There is ground information as to wind and other weather conditions.)
For want of anything better at the moment –
For ground penetration I would guess the rocket/bomb needs to fire straight down.
Without the parachute, the bomb would need to be dropped from a greater height and from a further distance due to the ballistic curve.
The distance it takes the parachute to stop the forward momentum at any given release speed would be known. Purely hypothetical figures but say at Mach 1 the bomb is stopped in exactly 500 meters – the bomb would be released 500m before the target.
Retarding the bomb with the parachute would allow the bombing from lower altitudes at greater speeds.
I would guess that these would be used against a complex where the entrances are known but the underground workings are not mapped, so the suspect area would need to be covered in a grid pattern.
Most likely one bombing run would involve dropping a line of bombs (200m ?) on the area known to have underground workings. Next bombing run would lay the next line and so forth.
Always a good way to determine how things are really going on any current event is do a check of MSM news outlets, media & print, & see how much hysterical howling & screeching is evident—just use tersee.com & in Search box enter strings such as ‘Syria war russia buildup’, or such:
Wapo result popup example
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-military-is-unlikely-to-turn-the-tide-in-syrias-war/2015/10/03/1b9fff04-686a-11e5-bdb6-6861f4521205_story.html
MOSCOW — Russia has triumphantly plunged into Syria’s four-year-old civil war with an expanding campaign of airstrikes. But the official euphoria here masks a nagging question: What can a limited deployment of Russian air power actually accomplish?
In the short term, Russia’s military will provide desperately needed air support and boost the morale of Syria’s battered army. The Syrian military will likely go on the offensive against moderate and Islamist rebel groups, including the Islamic State.
Pictorial below says Moskva cruiser,1 destroyers & 2 frigates recently there.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/10/03/Foreign/Graphics/2300-RussiaMilitary_graphic1004.jpg?uuid=TJE_smoREeW9tmhh9FISBQ
OT
Today the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that many countries and media outlets are providing false information about Syria. For example, yesterday it was reported that as a result of the strikes civilians were killed, but it turned out that the information about their death appeared before the Russian planes even took off.
– Sponsored by MSM [Mindless Streams of Malarkey]
Another collector of foreign paper headlines is this site, showing those available in english:
http://watchingamerica.com/WA/foreign-news-sources/
one example of a shocker: same day SEP29 as Putin’s UN speech, look at what the other side just announced, remember?:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940707000005
TEHRAN (FNA)- There’s going to be no solution to the Afghan crisis, and it’s all Obama’s fault.
At a time when the people of Afghanistan seek the international community’s help for peace and prosperity, the United States has decided to scrap their pullout plans once again, leaving thousands of occupying troops behind through the end of President Obama’s final term in office.
The silly argument by those in favor of increasing the American troops in place is largely the same throughout the war, that the Afghan government isn’t capable of beating the Taliban on their own, and that a US pullout would add pressure to that struggling military.
Very bad news for the Anglo-Zionist Empire:
Russia tightly closed the sky over Syria for any aircraft, other than its own
http://vg-news.ru/n/117388 , 3 October 2015 at 10:12:
“… An American military expert, a former Colonel of the U.S. army Jack Jacobs said that the United States can’t stop Russians in Syria, because Russia has de facto established a closed zone over it, blocking the access to any aircraft with the help of its air defense systems, deployed both on land and on ships of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean.
On Friday, 2 October, Saudi news published an interview with former U.S. Colonel Jack Jacobs, who announced that the United States can’t stop the Russians in Syria, as Russia has established a “closed zone” over it. This means that any military aircraft entering the zone of hostilities, can be immediately shot down as a threat to the Russian Air and space forces.
American sources claim that the Russian Federation with the assistance of deployed land-based air defense systems has established a closed zone over the entire airspace of Syria, while in addition, the approaches to the Russian airbase in Latakia are also closed from the sea to a distance of 100-250 km from the coast to the fleet of the Russian Federation, which is now conducting exercises in the Mediterranean sea.
Thus, the U.S. and its allies can’t even carry out a reconnaissance of the forces of Russian Federation.
A source in the military circles of the American contingent in Turkey reported that aircraft of the NATO, trying to get close to the forces of the Russian Federation, were illuminated by radar, while the source of illumination could not even be identified.
“The Russians have made it understood, that they can see everything, and not to get anywhere closer, or be shot down”, – noted the American military.
“Frankly speaking, we were surprised by the air defense system of Russia. We can’t even assume which systems are deployed there. We are encountering them for the first time, most likely there are the latest complexes S-400. I have no more clues” – said Colonel Jack Jacobs.
Bloomberg also writes [ http://www.bloombergview.com/a… ] about the creation of the Russian no-fly zone over Syria, citing senior American military. So, the commander of the NATO forces in Europe General Philip Breedlove stated that the new military infrastructure of Russia in Syria, including the air defense systems, de facto creates a no-fly zone.
According to Breedlove, Russia has created over Syria a “sphere of denial”, which American planes can’t enter.
General Breedlove believes that the “very complex air defense systems” deployed by Russia in Syria are not aimed against the “Islamic state”, which does not have aviation. “They are against someone else”, said the commander of the NATO forces in Europe.
“In the U.S. there were several years of discussions about plans to create Syria no-fly zones to protect the rebels and civilians. Two parties have long argued and could not agree on what should be a no-fly zone. Then appeared Vladimir Putin and in a few days just went ahead and did it”, – sarcastically commented the author of the Bloomberg article.
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[P.S. That Bloomberg article link is: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-02/putin-has-his-own-no-fly-zone-in-syria ]
LOL, yes, that is a NFZ over Syria, it’s an anti-NATO one…
@ Johan,
Thanks for this info. Great news indeed and thanks for sharing it.
“A source in the military circles of the American contingent in Turkey reported that aircraft of the NATO, trying to get close to the forces of the Russian Federation, were illuminated by radar, while the source of illumination could not even be identified.”
Wow. If that fact turns out to be true, we’re not at a ‘stalemate’ Tee-junction in time, but a quadruple ‘checkmate’ on-ramp, to a 12-lane freeway to victory!
What?
I know, I know; the fight isn’t over, yet.
For those of you who think H.E. PM Vladimir Putin is not doing enough or just too little, too late, please let the following statement sink in;
“In the U.S. there were several years of discussions about plans to create Syria no-fly zones to protect the rebels and civilians. Two parties have long argued and could not agree on what should be a no-fly zone. Then appeared Vladimir Putin and in a few days just went ahead and did it.”
That’s the 2nd home run, with the slug still speeding out of the ballpark, in just over a year.
Wow.
I don’t think there is any no fly zone as such. I have seen nothing solid on S-300s or S-400s being deployed on land. Only Pantsir which is a short range system. The ships may be able to cover most of Syrian airspace and the US has to be on best behavior when it bombs excavators in ISIS country.
No doubt there would be a no fly zone over Syrian government held territory.
This chart, three or four days old, shows that Syrian army has S 300(s). You have to click on the map of Syria and scroll down to see it.
http://www.vz.ru/infographics/2015/9/30/769722.html
Breedlove must be just seething at the mouth, stamping his feel and shaking his fists….
Hee Hee
SouthFront review:
Israel has a price for its grudging cooperation ? if you can even go so far as to call it that…(forbearance maybe,) so far:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-israel-golan-heights.html?_r=0
re: Hospital hit in Afghanistan: reports from people on the scene say that the hospital was hit repeatedly over a ONE hour in intervals of 15 minutes. Clearly this was deliberate and there was some ” high value target” in the hospital that someone wanted killed. Who cares about the people whose deaths are trivialized by the label of “collateral damage” because it is “worth the price” to some neocon racist running their increasingly dysfunctional military?
Like the Israeli attack on the Liberty it was a pre meditated war crime.
thanks South Front, you’re the best…I sent it on to all my friends…good music … good news….
Here’s a headline that says it all
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43035.htm
a Russian news correspondent in Syria – video – very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcVrtQ4QOP4
OT, but very important…this video is an excerpt from a longer one…its about a Canadian farmer, Percy Schmeiser who … well its a long horrible story, but he was sued by Monsanto for being a normal Canadian farmer….and Monsanto won…
And Percy Schmeiser has fought against it and is still fighting…and so dear friends…you can see a German immigrant who is a great soul…a truly great soul…this is what Germans can be….its a very inspiring story.
https://youtu.be/kvA0kKp3nGs
All this is good, but I think Putin/Russia should help to liberate Novorossia first (all of it, from Charkov to Odessa), and then help Syria.
Please, explain! You are talking about Islamic State centers being bombed (0:33 and after) but those spots are almost all in green area. Why is this area not marked with green and black if both groups you distinguish under those colors are there (or did you wanted to show that IS is just a welcomed guest there but does not control the territory)? Thank you for your important work!
I wonder if the Pentagon is a subscriber to SouthFront.
The US generals have woeful Intelligence themselves, so they ought to at least keep up with the rest of us.
Imagine if you are in charge of US affairs in Syria. Your head must be spinning.
“What the f*ck is going on? We were winning two weeks ago. Now we can’t fly without calling Vlad and he keeps saying No.”