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The Syrian Arab Air Defense Forces intercepted eight out of 12 missile launched by Israeli fighter jets during the recent attack on T-4 air base in central Syria, Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, told reporters on October 9, according to the TASS news agency.
“On October 8 at 21.33, trespassing into airspace of the Syrian Arab Republic near Al-Tanf, six F-16 tactical fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force fired 12 guided missiles at T-4 [Tifor] air base in Homs province,” Kulit said. “The Syrian air defense forces on duty … destroyed eight missiles from the Russian-made Pantsir surface-to-air missile system.”
Kulit confirmed that six Syrian service members were wounded in the attack. The Russian officer also revealed that the air base sustained “minor damage”.
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Satellite images revealed that the missiles that managed to reach T-4 air base hit an apron located at the end of the main runway, as well as what appears to be an air-defense site located to the south of the base.
That’s not what I expected to see at T4, east of #Homs, #Syria, considering the statement from #Syrian State Media of 6 injuries, I expected some form of building to be targeted, there may be more, I need to check across the whole of T4. So what was targeted? A drone? Hmmm pic.twitter.com/BB2r4Lnc4g
— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) October 9, 2021
Looks like AD was also targeted last night. Not uncommon for AD sites to also be targeted at the same time to suppress risk of interception, more to be uncovered it seems. https://t.co/lYN01qEW1v
— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) October 9, 2021
The target of the Israeli attack may have been Iranian weapons or military equipment which were recently deployed in T-4 air base. The base is known to be hosting the main weapons supply center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria.
Israel continues to launch attacks on Syria on the hope of pushing Iran out from the war-torn country. This, however, will not likely happen anytime soon.
The cost to American Taxpayers of this latest Israeli Air Force attack on Syria runs into a few million dollars but no problem ‘cos the Dims & ReThugs will simply keep filling the leaking jar that is Israel.
Israel is sucking the U.S. dry like a vampire, but to be honest they deserve it.
US ‘Forever Wars’ of 2000’s that were instigated by US Neo-Cons, who are primarily fixated on Israeli security, and created wars that largely benefited Israel, were of course paid for by borrowing. Adding trillions in public debt. US public debt RADICALLY increased in period and as result of these wars, that benefited a foreign country, US public debt is at hundreds of thousands per household. The only way for US out of this debt is to actively use inflation – to allow inflation to devalue the dollar’s spending power to effectively diminish the value of the debt. Hint: currently inflation is sharply rising in US and the government doesn’t want to talk about it, or why they are not using usual mechanisms to reign it in.Theses are the long term consequences to average US citizen of pro-Israel/Israel-first US Neo-Con warmonger policies..
They should rather use TOR and Tunguska, they have a 95% intercept rate contrary to the 70-80% of the Pantsir.
Also would be time to take out a few Isisraeli jets of the Isis Airfarce. Lets see if Israel is taff enough to start WWIII over a few Iranians in Syria.
f-16 is the most crashed aircraft in modern aviation history. f 16 dot net.
Problem for Syrians is, they can’t, because IAF hide inside Lebanese airspace. The IAF launch stand off attacks whilst hiding behind Lebanese commercial air traffic. The SAA cannot responsibly fire SAM’s into Lebanese airspace without risk of hitting commercial aircraft. The IAF are too cowardly to approach Syrian border, or overfly Syria itself, and hide behind human shields of civilian commercial air traffic. This is tactical reality of the much (self) hyped Israeli ‘air power’.
Correct, except this attack came from Al Tanf area in the south. And it becomes crystal clear why the Americans have insisted staying in Al Tanf guarding sand – to provide another launching point for israeli attacks.
Intercept the platforms and then you might have something.
Time for zionist shitrailians to order more containers of adult diapers. depends stock expected to spike in the next week. Watch the markets!
12 missile and caused minor damage because surely 4 of them were just Debris of Delilah cruise misssile
Add a 373 for each missed rocket
What is Syria waiting to give them a tit for that? And exterminate the rat nests from US, UK, Nato, Turky on Syrian soil with the help from Russia and Iran balistic missils. All the coordinates are well known from there basises.
How is it that the Israelis can just attack Syria with impunity. Syria shoots down their missiles but no planes. Until Syria or Russia actually shoots down an Israeli plane over Syria the S300/400 systems are just a pile of junk that no other country should be buying. It appears that these systems are useless against Israeli planes.