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On September 4, a Mi-8/17 transport helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) crashed in the city of Hama in west-central Syria.
A military source told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency that the helicopter was on a training sortie when it fell as a result of a “technical failure”. The helicopter crashed right into a number of residential buildings in the northeastern part of Hama city.
The helicopter crew, pilot Colonel Tony Ghannam, co-pilot Captain Taher Mahmoud and flight engineer Lieutenant Ibrahim Ghazi, were all killed in the accident. However, no civilians were harmed.
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The SyAAF operates more than 40 Mi-8/17 helicopters, which are mainly used for transportation, airborne operations and fire support.
This was the second Syrian warplane to crash this week and the overall third this year. On February 15, a MiG-23UB fighter jet crashed near Sha’irat Air Base in the eastern countryside of Homs as a result of a technical failure. Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed in the accident. More recently on September 2, a MiG-21 fighter jet crashed in the outskirts of the town of al-Khalidiyeh in the northern countryside of al-Suwayda, also as a result of a technical failure. The pilot survived with minor wounds after ejecting.
The SyAAF is still highly active despite of its very limited resources. Russia has been supplying the war-ridden air force with spare parts, ammunition and technical support. Russian military advisors have been also training Syrian pilots.
Russian made helicopter. Lol
Ahhh, to what other helicopters are you comparing it?
Frontline in Ukraine is too large for Russian Army small size. Even Turkey has a larger active duty military. Ukraine now has an even larger active duty military after calling hundreds of thousands of reserves.
Only way for Russia to win without declaring general mobilization is a partial mobilization of a quarter or up to half of reserves. Otherwise no way they can take Odessa, Kharkov, let alone Kiyv. For now at most they can take rest of Donbass and even that will be very hard while maintaining entire frontlines.Currently RU has 2,000,000 reserves. Calling up 500,000 (only 25%) can drastically turn the tide very quickly. Keep in mind only 10% of army gear currently being used/have been used. Tens of Thousands of tanks/artillery/mlrs rocket launchers left in arsenal. We will see in the winter.
I think the war was deliberately designed to be this slow for Europe and NATO to shoulder its political consequences.
Russia’s slow progress can be explained by how Russians they have been thus far fighting in densely populated and highly urbanized regions with very difficult terrain including hills valleys and rivers. It has also bee trying to defeat fortifications built by entire NATO across Donbass since 2014. Any premature efforts to storm these areas would become a meat grinder. After the last line of fortifications along Slavyansk-Kramatorsk is recaptured in the next few months, the rest of the areas are flat with and unurbanized save for Nikolaev Kharkov and Odessa. Recapturing them will be akin to steam rolling. I am not an expert
Russia just needs to sit steady and take her time. No rush. Nato supply lines run from Germany and Poland before reaching southern Ukraine. So it is nato who have to worry about keeping their supply lines open as Russia could close them down at a time and place of her own chosen
This Winter will be UKROP nightmare: -no natural gas for entire Europe -crazy gas price increase again -ZPP turning off power to Ukraine
First a jet and now a helicopter…
Syrian Army like an abused wife gettting slapped around from all angles. We bring the pain 🦾🇮🇱
Was this targeted by electronics?