INTERVIEW: The air navigator of the SU-24: „I have a debt to repay for the Commander”
Today at the Latakia air base Konstantin Murakhtin, an air navigator of the Russian SU-24 frontline bomber which was shot down by the Turks, gave his first interview with Russian media, in which he stated that there is no way that his plane violated Turkish airspace. No. It is not possible, not even for one second. Especially because we were flying at around6.000 meters, the weather was clear, as we say in our jargon a day in a million, our whole flight up to the moment that the rocket hit us was completely under my control. I saw the border and our exact location perfectly both on the map and on the surroundings. There was not even the threat of crossing over into Turkey – he told reporters. We have carried out combat missions there many times, we know the area inside out, we perform combat missions and return on the reverse route to the air base. As the navigator, I know practically every elevation over there. I can even navigate without instruments – he said.
The pilot said that the Turkish missile hit the plane suddenly and it was not possible for the crew to avoid it and there was no advance warning from the Turkish side. In fact there were no warnings at all – not by radio traffic and not visually, there was just no contact. For this reason we went on combat course in regular mode. You need to understand how fast a bomber is and how fast a F16 fighter is. If they had wanted to warn us, they could have shown themselves, by holding a parallel course, but there was nothing like that. In effect, the missile suddenly came at the tail of our plane anyway. We didnt even observe it visually, which might have allowed us to carry out an anti-missile maneuver, said the pilot.
Captain Murakhtin added that he himself feels all in all ok now.
I wait impatiently for them to discharge me to return to duty immediately. I will ask command headquarters to leave me at this airbase, I have a debt to repay for the commander.
“Turkey Denies Releasing Recordings of Contacts With Downed Russian Su-24
Turkish authorities have informed the Russian military attache that they did not provide the media with audio recordings of alleged radio contacts between their F-16 fighter and the downed Russian Su-24 aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
“Representatives of the Turkish General Staff have stated that they did not share such material with the media. If so, this confirms yet again that the recordings of the Turkish pilots’ contacts with our crew that emerged today are another fake,” Maj. Gen. Konashenkov told reporters.
Shooting Unarmed Pilots in Self Defense?
© YOUTUBE/SPUTNIK
Self-Defense Turkish Style: Shooting Unarmed Parachuting Pilot
“Our military attache was informed that it was impossible to hand over any materials regarding the attack on the Russian plane by a Turkish F-16 on November 24,” the spokesman said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030814989/su-24-pilot-modern-bearings.html#ixzz3scOQ8D3F
My respect to the significant portion of turkish people who do not endorse the murderer.
And the er.. dog doggan has got a debt towards you. He gotta repay ten fold.
That’s why they wanted to kill the pilots – no witnesses. Sadly one died because of the ambush – but the Russian spirit is not defeated.
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030814989/su-24-pilot-modern-bearings.html
Apparently the terrorists had sophisticted locator equipment when looking for the pilot – hmm – all pre-planned all ready to do their dasterdly deed. Film crews, tow missiles etc, all ready ;(
The irony of the fellow terorist accomplicies the US:
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030784263/s-400-russia-syria-us.html
whinging about the saftey memo issues – due to S400 now in combat – yet fine for Turkey to ignore the memo and US support them.
I feel sorry for the ordinary Turkish people and businesses who will suffer because of their meglomaniac President, his family,cabal and Prime Minister.
The French will continue to fight with Russia
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151126/1030812652/hollande-putin-meeting-moscow.html
and
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030817560/russi-syria-combat-report.html
Russians continue to pummel the terrorists and their arms depots destroyed. I am sure not one terrorist involved in the downing and deaths of servicemen will stay alive.
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030817560/russi-syria-combat-report.html
And IS oil facilities destroyed too.
Well, Konstantin Murakhtin, I think here is where you might like to start:
“He (Erdogan) told CNN that Russia, not Turkey, should be the one to apologize for the incident”
and
“Erdogan: We’ll continue shooting down violating planes”
Such arrogance from a US backed NATO uber-thug.
Lots of ‘Thug Life Turkey’ vids up on u-tube.
A few even have some short clips of Erdoghoul.
They’re in Turkic, so can’t tell what they’re saying, but some even look like there is a TV show called just that playing there (one of many in many countries running now).
I’ve heard somewhere that the term “turk” used to be used as another way of saying “back stabber”
Interesting…Putin must know of that too…so what he said has a double meaning.
There was a quote from Peter the great,that I’ve seen a lot lately posted by Russians.They had overlooked that time honored truism. Hopefully they never will again: “Never trust a Turk”.
It would be a fair guess that most Turkish citizens are appalled by the actions of their government and military. Ordinary citizens often are, but they don’t have a voice. But they will have to pay the price for their govt’s actions. That’s how it usually works.
Sadly,that’s true. I’m wondering if in Turkey enough citizens angry at Erdogan’s actions (especially if they can receive the information of his criminal dealings with terrorists) would be able to get rid of him. Would there be enough in the military willing to stage a coup against his regime.That might be the ideal course to end Turkey’s support for terrorists in Syria.
I personally do not trust the Turkish military, they are the babies of NATO and the Anglo-Zionists. They are worse than the Egyptian military and cannot be trusted one fraction of a second. The Citizens need to be the ones getting rid of this dangerously stupid government and the military has no business running the nation we have enough of them in Algeria, Egypt and other Muslim countries. Soldiers job is to defend the nation and support it (nation=We the People) not running it. Just my opinion.
The shootdown is really hard to understand. It makes so little sense. Completely needless escalation and provocation.
I would very much appreciate it if somebody explained, why was the approach, missile targeting and missile launch from F16 not detected by either the Su24 or the Russian radars. Where the Russians not paying attention or was there electronic jamming involved? Wouldn’t even that (jamming) be detected?
Thanks to all for answers.
It was very likely an infra-red homing (heat-seeking) air to air missile. Infra-red seekers are passive devices and provide no indication that they are tracking a target. The SU-24 crew would not have had any warning of the missile’s approach until it was too late.
Thanks! I read somewhere that a short range missile was used. I’m speculating (I’m not an expert) that F16 had to move on an intercept course to quite near Su24, and that would maybe be a sign. Maybe it was faked a couple of times before so people watching would drop their guard.
I wrote before all of this makes little sense, because I was under the impression this is some sort of mafia revenge job for Bilal’s oil trucks. The way things are escalating is making me think that that kind of thinking is too trivial. Maybe it was intended to look obvious to piss the Russians and force them to commit much more. I’ll wait for Saker to give his analyis.
Surely the Rusian side and the USA side came to an agreement to share their movement info, via an Israeli link, so as to not interfere with each other’s actions. The Russian side therefore dropped their guard thinking any USA coalition member would not attack. Said it before say it again, Russian allies in defeating the western terrorists are Syria Hezbollah and Iran, trust no one else.
I agree totally with you about that. I think that is why Putin said it was a “stab in the back” from Turkey. They were led to believe the arrangements they made with Turkey were to prevent anything like that from happening. So seeing, or knowing, that a Turkish plane was near by was not a worry to them. Now after the attack they know never to trust in Western agreements (I could have told them that months ago). Which is why Russia today broke all military to military communication with the Turkish military. The next “communication” Russia will have with them, will probably be with a S-400 missile battery.
Whether true or not I have no idea, but the western sources are saying it was an AIM-120 AMRAAM from the Turkish F-16. So that would not be I/R seeking but active radar from what I read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/aim-120.htm
My bet would be on a Python missile, a quite sophisticated Israeli missile that uses an “electro-optical imaging seeker with lock-on after-launch ability”.
Presumably hard to detect and which may have brought down MH17. Used by 17 countries and can be carried by the F-16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28missile%29
I think it was revenge…and possibly not fully thought out. Ergodan is a Turk….they’re a tough bunch….for centuries…millennia maybe….
Actually, Hez did an operation just like this in 2006.. They captured 2 IDF soldiers for leverage.. Since Russia was bombing Turkish terrorists of which there are more than 10,000 of them in Syria.. Yes Turkish citizens as moderate rebels (sic).. Turkey wants a safe zone to station these proxies.. which is defacto annexing Syrian territories.. Turkey also issues warnings to any air craft that approaches the 5km of Syrian air space they annexed in 2012.. Capturing the pilots would have given Turkey leverage to not bomb their terrorists.. Although IS is organized in Turkey.. You can see IS tanks being transported inside turkey with IS flags.. So Turkey supplies weapons to ALL terrorists inside Syria.. We already knew this but according to obhama only Syrian moderate rebels are armed and trained.. after which they are sent into Syria where IS captures them and steals their weapons.. Which is not true.. Turkey controls the training and weapons supplies and pays ALL proxy terrorists of all the countries funding this insanity.. Hence changing the flags all the time but as all thugs and goons, they also act like gangs and have gang fights.. This is such a HUGE operation that it is done openly.. An example of this would be Pakistan which supports terrorists to send into india.. a couple of dozen an year… This scale of 100,000 terrorists moving from turkey is on a scale so huge that anyone that profess ignorance is a moron. And the illegal trade in all kinds of illicit activity, human trafficking of organs, sex slaves, terrorists and oil and stolen artifacts is on a national scale.. Directly affecting Turkish GDP and economic growth..
All that gangbuster Turkish growth the last 5 years is based on this criminal enterprise.. It is like the south American drug trade with the US on steroids and would be like state sponsored and controlled. Unlike being worth Billions, this is worth Trillions..
I think Putin knew all this gave erdo every chance to come clean and stop it. But we already know, people who see power and money, think they are invincible.. They develop an ego and delusions of grandeur.. They think bribery and threats can force others to do their will. We already know Putin offers very easy loans to stop the insanity very early on, as time goes by he escalates and raises the interest rates.. The terms get hard and harder.. The longer you resist, the higher the costs end up being.. Those with delusions of grandeur think Putin is weak for offering such lose and easy terms.. Just watch.. Obama for some strange reason recognizes this to stand down and save face.. Erdo being a real thug acts and thinks only like one.. Putin has plenty of experience with people like him but needs to act on an international stage and under international law..
Ramzan Kadyrov says Turkey will ‘regret what it has done for a long time’ after Russian plane shot down.
Felt the need to enclose news of just what Zionist Western Imperialist ‘Democracy’ is worth.
The famous (and quite courageous), French comedian Dieudonné, has been sentenced in Belgium (in absentia), to Prison.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjW4dnH0K7JAhUEGB4KHfr-A7cQqQIIHjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-34921071&usg=AFQjCNHMx5aXRJBcnfStJLK9N3Sdtv_QXQ&sig2=K3BplcP3gvrj8dK89vT10g
Dueudonnés’ outspoken opposition to terrorist Zionism, and his support for France’s Sovereignty, has earned him threats, fines from the French government authorities, and jail sentences from the destroyers of Nations and Liberty. He has also earned the respect of millions of Europe’s citizens.
[France’s government talks nice to Russia, while they repress freedom at home.]
The heroic Russian pilot, Konstantin Murakhtin, after surviving the downing of his SU-24 Bomber, has requested to be returned to duty to continue his fight against the imperialist Terrorists.’
On this -American Thanksgiving- holiday, we have the news of 2 individuals who are fighting in the front lines (and against great difficulties), for:
The Democratic Republics!
IMAGINE
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian sources revealed on Thursday that the pilot of the Russian Su-24 jet that was shot down by Turkey over the Syrian airspace on Tuesday was rescued in an operation by Iran’s globally renowned IRGC Qods Force Commander Major General Soleimani.
On Tuesday, a Russian Su-24 bomber jet crashed in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the plane was downed by an air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish F-16 jet over Syrian territory, falling 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the Turkish border.
The crew of the plane ejected and one pilot was killed by fire from the ground, according to the Russian General Staff. The co-pilot Captain Konstantin Murahtin survived. But the story of how he survived in a land surrounded by various types of terrorist groups for tens of kilometers was unknown until today.
Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:40
URGENT: Russian Pilot Rescued by Iran’s General Soleimani
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940905000553
Totally looks like—-Sean Connery.
This is a must read story, folks. It sounds almost too good to be true and starts like this:
” While the Russians were planning for another operations to free the pilot immediately, General Soleimani contacted them and proposed them that a special task force unit be formed of Hezbollah’s special forces and Syrian commandos who have been trained by Iran and are fully familiar with the geographical situation of the region to be tasked with the ground operations and Russia provide them with air cover and satellite intelligence.
Soleimani promised them to return the Russian pilot safe and sound; a promise that was kept in the end, according to the Syrian officer.
After tracing the place of the Russian pilot using his GPS, it was revealed that the pilot was being kept in a place 6km behind the frontline of the clashes between the Syrian army and the opposition…”
It was the Hez operatives who were monitoring the border crossings deep under cover.. Many of them are monitoring IS movements to mark bombing positions, how do you think the Russians get their spots to bomb especially deep inside enemy held areas? I was surprised to see rather weak looking operatives with hardly any fire power or equipment until they said they were deep into enemy held areas and they had to come from the other side to find the navigator. Since these guys are trained by the Iranians they could be considered Iranian proxies.. I am sure there are SAA in there as well..
Also YPG moving and they would not do it without assurances that Russia would protect them from Turkish bombers…
Thought only Russia and India had T90’s Guess now also Syria..
New pics of #Russia-n T-90s deployed in #Aleppo countryside #Syria
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/669835165485535232
Hope they had Insurance…
Russia promised 2hunt down any oil truck leaving #ISIS land2 #Turkey. #Russia said it hs destroyed 1000 oil tanker
https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/669947271690264577
AFP BREAKING Turkey would have acted differently if it knew downed plane was Russian -Erdogan
SYRIA Cross-border deliveries of weapons, ammo and materiel to terrorists in #Latakia are completely blocked
YPG have now initiated an op around Sheikh Meqsud and will cut Jahbat al-Nusra logistics and supply lines to Aleppo. #TwitterKurds #Syria
Nusra and their islamist allies are attacking the rebel groups in northern Aleppo who work together with YPG. #TwitterKurds #Syria
Heavy cashes between Kurdish Front (Revolution Army) and Nusra/Ahrar on Aleppo – Azaz road North of Aleppo. #TwitterKurds
YPG advances in southern Hassake Dam front. #TwitterKurds
“AFP BREAKING Turkey would have acted differently if it knew downed plane was Russian -Erdogan”
What a “crock”,anybody buying that is certainly “up” for buying this bridge I can sell them in NYC. The RF markings on the plane must have been “indivisible” I guess, according to Erdogan.
Did you see the gigolo from the state department saying those terrorists have a right to protect themselves? and then saying Russia moving D300/S400 to Syria wont help the situations and would be destabilizing the region?
This was not just a shoot down they had people to capture the pilots for blackmail. hence the equipment to locate them.. Of course Russia knows these were not terrorists but Turkish special forces..
He stressed that terrorists and other “mysterious groups” were killed in the assault.
Erdo has now lost all chances to join the EEU or SCO.. Turk stream would be a no go.. Any contract signed with the Turks would be suspect.. The Chinese wont touch them.. Now no one else would either.. For Billions, Erdo threw away Trillions.. Guess to become a god father is possible for any low IQ thug.. Turkey also now wont have any input into the Syrian situation.. They were already marginalized since Russia knows who is the enabler of terrorists.. Out of the 100K terrorists 10,000 of them are turks.. You would think dangling so much to gain would have made erdo see the light.. I suppose once you get all that thuggery and delusions of grandeur about bullying others work for you, decided to play hard ball.. This will cost Russia.. And it wont change much until another government comes into power but by then Turkey will be a basket case like Ukraine. Everyone seems to have forgotten how the entire world is crashing but Turkey is doing great.. All the loot from Syria and money from GCC and others were making the economy go gangbusters.. Now no revenue from anything.. All those cross border posts held by terrorists will be closed.. Seen the IS held areas in Iraq lately? The best outlook in all this is, Now Russia has a free hand to do what ever and it might end a lot sooner.. We wont have to worry about moderate terrorists or insulting other countries etc.. The gloves were already coming off.. Now it is just bare knuckles.. I fully expect Russia to enable the Kurds to move and they already are..
What is worse is, Putin is closing down Erdo’s illicit trade in everything.. Delusions of the ottoman empire just vanished.. In fact Turkey is now surrounded on all sides by enemies. Instead of Turkey being the new Dubai, it is more like being marginalized to the point of irrelevancy.. No one will trust them now. After the last week, who can trust a Turkish contract? Not the Chinese I am sure and stabbing someone in the back would make any transaction with Turkey not worth the ink.. In 2 years Turkey will be in dire economic straits. Forget growth, we can look forward to an absolute crash of the trukish economy paralleling the ukranian economy.
Lada Ray thinks erdo was blackmailed and forced.. He was.. But he also could not see the picture.. Putin showed him the picture and all he could see was what any thug who became the godfather could see.. Delusions of grandeur can really affect ones sanity and erdo is totally insane.. Look how he pushes the Turkish opposition or anyone who shows the slightest resistance to his will.
This is still the situation when Russia will have to chose between bad and very bad so not to destabilize the region even more.
Another thing that has to be mentioned is this: Turkey and its government simply cannot be trusted under any circumstances. This has always been the way of this region of the world for a long, long time. They will flip-flop and stab anyone in the back on moment’s notice, depending on who pays them more or who threatens them more effectively.
There is a saying in those parts: if someone extends a hand to you, bite off his arm. I know it sounds vicious and awful, but in light of the present events, I thought it was necessary to mention this.
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/
mmiriww
Fascinating observations. What does this all mean for Turkey’s role in Nato, the idea of ostracism doesn’t make sense, I can’t imagine them being excluded in any future decision making processes (‘not for your eyes’) meaning the strategic stuff and plans will still be shared with them (they are using Turkey’s air bases) which still makes Turkey extremely dangerous. Do you think Russia will press for a coalition with France that is extra-Nato for this very reason. It sounded as if Putin was ready to suspend the deconflicting arrangement with America yesterday because he suspects that Turkey acquired this (“leaked”). How can there be cooperation now (France) without some of the members apprehensive about whatever they share or agree with Russia getting back to Turkey? Especially if it brings forth another “stab in the back”?
And just think…this episode was all for naught.
Like the others.
This next prediction was too easy to make right after it was announced a few weeks ago, & of course well before this Su-25 incident, so I saved it till there was some concrete follow-up report that they really have arrived.
These 50 are far far too small a number to be anything but specialists doing a very specific ‘value added’ job.
What would that be?
It’s to light up the Russian low-flying strike aircraft with some kind of target painting signal. Nothing new at all–I remember this during the opening to GW I 1991 Desert Storm Iraq.
The SAMs they’d use would be some kind of MANPAD or even smaller, because at that short range & time to target no need for anything big, plus any S-300 or even S-400, despite its vaunted range, & with only 1 or 2 in all of N. Syria near the border, couldn’t possibly see nor reach in time to intercept anyway.
So, expect to see those strikers start falling out of the sky at the rate of several a day soon.
The United States has reportedly dispatched dozens of ground troops to Syria in a bid to shore up its ostensibly ineffective airstrikes against the Takfiri Daesh terrorists and assist Kurdish militants operating in Turkish-Syrian border regions.
A Thursday report by the Lebanese TV al-Mayadeen said the US servicemen entered Syria from Turkey through the Murshid Binar border crossing, adding that the troops numbered “50.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/26/439282/Syria-US-troops-Daesh
That would be when you send special units of Spetsnaz into the area tasked with one purpose only. Find and eliminate those spotters.No prisoners taken,and no questions asked. Purely find and eliminate them. I think the next plane taken down by “known” enemy forces will be all that’s needed. Russia will respond with cruise missiles (or something equally effective) straight and directly onto the base launching the attacks.Whether it is in Turkey or not.
President Putin’s interview live feed
https://www.rt.com/on-air/
Consider the implication of this
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/11/mod-statement-militants-were-also.html
“However, it should be emphasized that along with the Russian search-and-rescue group, militants and a number of other units equipped with special purpose locators were also conducting active search for the Russian pilot in that area.”
Why should militants have these special purpose locators if there was no anticipation that a plane would be shot down? This sounds, again, like this was a planned ambush.
Lt. Col Oleg Peshkov was the commander of the Su-24 “stabbed on the back” by a Turkish fighter. He was barbarically killed while descending with the parachute on the slopes of Mount Turkmen, Latakia Province, Syria
The best way to honour and remember him is, in agreement with the Syria Government, to rename that Mount as “Mount Oleg Peshkov”
I would suggest a more fitting tribute would be turning Turkmen Mountain into the Turkmen Crater.
And of course, he will be inducted into the Immortal Regiment. There is no greater honor.
(Yandex translation) Moscow, November 26, 2015, 12:22 — REGNUM Interview, military expert, permanent author of the magazine “Arsenal of the Fatherland”, an expert in the use of Military space forces Alexei Leonova
…In the attack involved several reconnaissance and targeting — at least 3, and two F-16 missiles with modern AIM-9X.
How it all happened?
Plane USAF Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS took off on November 24 with the aviation base of Preveza in Greece. Second E-3A air force of Saudi Arabia flew from Riyadh airbase. Both aircraft performed a single task of determining the exact location of the aircraft of the Russian space forces. They chose “sacrifice”…
…E-3 all the time gave detailed information about the su-24M2 patrol a pair of Turkish F-16CJ. This plane is specially produced for Turkey. Its special feature is the computer controlling the new radar AN/APG-68 and serving as the second pilot-Navigator.
But this information is insufficient for high-speed target. Used something else?
Indeed, the accuracy of the output of the F-16CJ is additionally provided ground-based air defense systems Patriot USA located in Turkey, or rather their multi-function radar AN/MPQ-53…The trajectory of the F-16CJ is talking about high-precision output for the purpose of method triangulation: a pair of E-3A radar plus Patriot plus geostationary satellites RAP MENTOR and possibly “Geosat”…
It turns out that Turkish fighters knew exactly where to wait for our plane in ambush?
Of course. A pair of F-16CJ reached the area of start-up and from a distance of 4-6 kilometers, almost point blank (!) put a rocket “air-air” AIM-9X Sidewinder in rear hemisphere of Russian bombers. With radar AN/APG-68 launch a rocket fighter worked in the “illuminated goal”: involved in the start-up and passed out after the rocket has confidently captured and hit the target.
If our pilots the opportunity to save the aircraft?
No. The chances to avoid defeat at the crew of the su-24M2 have been equal to zero…
You mean “American partners”, those who belong to the “Patriots” and “AWACS”, as well as satellites, possibly involved in the operation?
Yes, with a high degree of probability. Turkey lacks the necessary capacity to such painstaking and very precise work. And don’t forget about the second E-3 assigned to the air force of Saudi Arabia. The whole scenario is quite transient, followed by the second.
Really everything went so smoothly?
The Turks made a mistake, in which the provocation was not a success. F-16CJ came to defeat with a delay of 2 minutes, when the su-24M2 have already left the disputed plot 68-kilometer territory in Northern Syria … It seems that it saved and our Navigator. He was able to go to the “greenery” and wait for the search party there.
http://regnum.ru/news/polit/2021108.html
Part of this was posted in another thread..
me says: November 26th, 2015 at 2:00 PM [Level 1 – Novice]
******detailed info regarding rescue of the russian pilot.
Russian sources revealed on Thursday that the pilot of the Russian Su-24 jet that was shot down by Turkey over the Syrian airspace on Tuesday was rescued in an operation by Iran’s globally renowned IRGC Qods Force Commander Major General Soleimani.
On Tuesday, a Russian Su-24 bomber jet crashed in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the plane was downed by an air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish F-16 jet over Syrian territory, falling 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the Turkish border.
The crew of the plane ejected and one pilot was killed by fire from the ground, according to the Russian General Staff. The co-pilot Captain Konstantin Murahtin survived. But the story of how he survived in a land surrounded by various types of terrorist groups for tens of kilometers was unknown until today.
Emad Abshenas, a reporter for Russia’s state-run Sputnik news agency, wrote a piece in the Persian-language website of the Russian agency quoting the entire story from a senior Syrian officer.
“I contacted one of the Syrian officers who is my old friend and is stationed in Lattakia and asked him to tell me the story, and here is what he said,” Abshenas mentioned.
After the downing of the Russian fighter jet, the Russian helicopters took off immediately to save the pilot but they faced the heavy fire power of FSA (or the so-called moderate opposition, the Free Syrian Army, supported by the West) and the Turkey-back Turkmens who targeted the helicopter with missiles and advanced weapons that they have gained recently. During the operations one Russian aid worker was killed.
Credible information was obtained that a number of special Turkish units had been sent to the scene to take the Russian pilot captive to blackmail Russia later. While the Russians were planning for another operations to free the pilot immediately, General Soleimani contacted them and proposed them that a special task force unit be formed of Hezbollah’s special forces and Syrian commandos who have been trained by Iran and are fully familiar with the geographical situation of the region to be tasked with the ground operations and Russia provide them with air cover and satellite intelligence.
Soleimani promised them to return the Russian pilot safe and sound; a promise that was kept in the end, according to the Syrian officer.
After tracing the place of the Russian pilot using his GPS, it was revealed that the pilot was being kept in a place 6km behind the frontline of the clashes between the Syrian army and the opposition.
Six fighters of Hezbollah’s special operation unit and 18 Syrian commandos approached the frontline to carry out the operations and the Russian air force and helicopters concurrently created hellfire in the region and destroyed the terrorists’ headquarters in a way that most of the enemy forces deployed in the region fled the scene and the ground was paved for the special unit’s advance.
The Syrian officer added that every move of the special units was monitored and covered precisely by the Russian satellites in a way that the slightest moves made 100 meters away from the area of operation was reported to them and every moment of the operation was reported to a very high-raking official in the Kremlin (that he thinks was president Putin) and it was clear that he was monitoring the entire operations through satellites from Moscow.
According to the officer who called for anonymity, the operation later turned into a hunt of the terrorists in the operation zone by the Russian air force from the sky and by Brigadier General Soleimani’s operations units on the ground.
The Syrian officer believed that the Russians also launched strong electronic warfare immediately to blind all enemies’ satellites and communication equipment in areas several kilometers away from the operational zone and when the enemies came to realize something was underway, the operations had ended. The electronic warfare was launched since the Russians were concerned that the western satellites would leak the operation to the terrorists.
Finally, the special unit saved the pilot after infiltrating 6km behind the enemy lines, killing the terrorists operating in there and destroying their hi-tech equipment.
The interesting point is that all the 24 members of the special units along with the pilot returned to their base without even one injury after fulfilling the dangerous mission.
According to the senior Syrian officer, one of the reasons for the success of these operations was the difference between Turkey and the terrorists over the fate of the Russian pilot as the Turks wanted him alive to use him for political blackmailing against the Russia. While the terrorists stationed in the region intended to burn him alive like what did to the Jordanian pilot to fill the hearts of other Russian pilots with fright. And this rift paved the ground for rescue operations some golden hours. Since the opposition never imagined that such a rapid planning and action by the rescue squads would be possible, given the complicated nature of such operations.
The Syrian officer said that General Soleimani insisted to supervise the details of the operations at the head of his forces and stayed in the operations room until he came to rest assured of their success.
Abshenas then comes out of the report with a number of interesting points, saying:
1. General Soleimani is fully healthy and is actively commanding operations in the frontline of the war against terrorists and responds rumors about himself with action and not by words and slogans.
2. There is no extremist and moderate oppositions in Syria; all of them are terrorists appearing in the public in different clothes and under different masks.
3. The Group 4+1 cannot trust other countries in any field and they should rely on themselves to eliminate the terrorists in the region based on their own specified plans.
4. Iran and Russia’s operational coordination in Syria is highly integrated and can break all enemies’ fronts.
5. Most of the FSA’s Syrian members had withdrawn from the region after they came under Russia’s airstrikes and the commandos fought non-Syrian forces who were using classic military tactics and not guerilla warfare and therefore, they could well be Turkish militaries or army forces of other countries. The commandos, of course, had no other choice but to kill them given the importance of rapid action in the operations and they didn’t had enough time to hold them captive.
6. The terrorists present in the region possessed very modern and advanced military equipment for ground-to-ground and ground-to-air warfare which are not even supplied to a large number of countries which are Washington’s NATO allies.
7. According to informed sources who had traced the wireless contacts between the opposition forces, the Arabic, Turkish, Russian and French are respectively the most frequently used languages by the terrorists, revealing that the countries which are mostly posed to the danger of the return of these terrorists and shows that Russia is forced to continue fight until the complete annihilation of the terrorists in Syria to safeguard its own national security.
hopefully Putin will persevere to absolutely show up Turkey in alliance with ISIs, and either must be expelled from NATO, or if they stay, ergo NATO is in alliance with ISIS……straight to UNSC, NATO and by extension USA are both terrorist organisations………
Please delete this post if this article has already been mentioned. Ziad Fadel has his own takeon the incident at Syrian Perspective:
Syrian Perspective has learned that Abu Muhammad Al-Jawlaani, the war criminal and leader of Alqaeda/Nusra, was in the Jabal Al-Turkmaan area at the time of the first sortie south of the Yayladaghi Refugee Camp which looks over the Furunluq Arboretum. Al-Jawlaani was intercepted by the SAA-MI barking orders and demanding action from the Turks lest he find himself converted into so much bloody porridge. The Turks, who are not known as skilled political thinkers, thought this was the way to now bring in NATO and enforce a no-fly zone which would satisfy the Arabian cockroaches. But NATO does not appear to have fallen for the “stratagem”. While the NATO secretary declared his loyalty to Erdoghan on this issue, it was also clear that NATO detected a Turkish ulterior motive and has gone shy. A peculiarly laugh-inducing statement was disseminated about how Turkey had the right to defend its air space; forgetting that Syria, too, has declared its air space inviolable in the face of constant American and allied trespasses.
I was also informed that Al-Jawlaani was all heated up because a large convoy of trucks carrying weapons from the refugee camp was going to be incinerated by the Russian bombers once the crews were alerted to it. It may have been an issue of preserving an arsenal rather than worrying about the life of another miserable rat.
Anyone see this? Who is surprised? But it does help to remember what the US wants here.. US would have nuked Russia if they were able to do it have no doubt about that. Kill all 120 million Russians without another thought. Do you doubt that?
Foreign Ministry unsure why fresh U.S. sanctions were imposed on Russia
The U.S. Treasury previously extended the sanctions on Syria — the list includes, in particular, the President of the International chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Bank “Russian financial Alliance”.
The introduction on Wednesday of U.S. sanctions for the events in Syria against Russia are a further complicating factor in relations, said Deputy foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov to RIA Novosti.
http://fortruss.blogspot.in/2015/11/foreign-ministry-unsure-why-fresh-us.html