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After Saudi-UAE coalition got stuck in Marib province and after Saudis managed to lose several bases inside of their own country to Houthis, they are now bringing Sudanese forces to the fight. This conflict is getting crazier. Photo from Aden. African badass with Chinese 35 mm grenade launcher

Houthis with Strela-2 MANPADS

Takom made a model..

Can't watch this video (tablet), but TOS-1A don't have cluster munitions that i heard about. In fact, there is no point to give cluster mu.itions to Solntsepyok or Buratino - Uraganand Smerch can deliver such warheads to much greater ranges.

Syrian operative-level missile systems - Elbrus, Luna-M, Tochka. http://vestnik-rm.ru/news-4-13794.htm 9K79 Tochka ("Point") being loaded. It is known that OTRK "Tochka" were delivered to Syria sometime in the mid-1980s after the Lebanon War with Israel in 1982. Most of the various sources indicates 18 launchers, but it is not known how much of launchers were delivered for sure. We still do not reliably know how much MiG-29 were delivered to Syria, not even starting to speak about "Tochka". Considering the years of delivery, the Syrians probably got a "point" in its original version. Vehicle-launchers of 9K79 Tochka system - When was recorded first launch against militants? How many missiles were fired? - The first launches of Tochka/"Points" against militants have been recorded in late December 2012 - early January of 2013. Again, it is difficult to say how much missiles were launched from 2012, probably at least several dozen, as I have seen over a dozen different video of such rockets launches. For example, during the battle for Mureck in the north of the province of Hama, in the spring of 2014, it was at least a few strikes with Tochka, loaded with cluster munition warheads. The last time such video with fragments of the rocket i have seen at the end of 2014. According to some reports, these complexes are used until now. Syrian missile system 9K72 "Elbrus" - What other types of missiles Syrians have? - Syria, in addition to solid fuel OTRK 9K79 "Tochka", have a liquid fuel 9K72E "Elbrus". The latter, as we know, after the collapse of the USSR the Syrians acquired Korean missiles "Hwasong-6" with extended range (they were produced in Iran under the name "Shahab-2"), and then the Koreans and the Iranians had organized their production and assembly in Syria. 9K52 "Luna-M" In addition, Syria has received Iranian solid fuel "Fateh-110" in 2000s. In addition to these systems with guided missiles, Syria still use our old systems, like Luna-M ("Moon") and Iranian "Zelzal" with unguided rockets.

Videos from several days ago. This ATGM seems to be old model, tank survived both 2 hits.

That is Pantsir

2 guys with beards suggest that it is from Syria. 4 soldiers are with some parts of Ratnik.

Russian VKS airstrikes 16.10.2015: 36 sorties, 49 targets bombed/destroyed. Precision strike with a KAB-500 satellite guided bomb against militants command centre in the Idlib province. Pinpoint strike with BetAB-500 concrete-piercing bombs on a bunker of ISIS ["ISIS"] terrorists in the Lattakia province.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qY6Vm40kjo Self-guided ammunition, used currently in Syria is old model without self-destruction system, which means... Allakh design bureau now have some work to do.

Lebanese sources: (11:23) - SAA units continue advancement on the south of Aleppo, and after violent clashes with the militants entered the village Shukaydila. At the same time the Air Force attacked the militants groups from "Jhebhat an Nusra", "Ahrar al-Sham" and "Sukur al-Sham", supporting those units, that are leading the fighting near the town of El-Khader in the south of Aleppo. (11:27) - Parts of the SAA fight with "Daash" militants in the Al-Hawiji near the airport Quveyrs. According to sources from the Syrian army, SAA took control of the village.

Looking at combat in Ukraine, grenade launchers, HMGs, AFVs like BMPs and tanks, artillery and MLRS are main weapons of killing and destruction, while rifles and carabines are used more for suppresion, ~close combat and urban combat during "sweep and clear" stage of combat.

#Syria #Daraa Counterattack by terrorists in Shayk Maskin Black flags.

Another Youtuber i watch - Dslyk.. um Dysleksi.. uhh whatever. He is Arma2/3 player, he also runs ShackTac community, which is pretty cool. Those videos are different, his longer ones. Also shows level of AI in Arma. Dsclxsee, or how it is writen in Muricanlang, also have 1+ hour long vids, that you can find on his channel.

GPC seems to me don't take into account HMGs, RPGs/small sized missile launchers like mini-Spike, automatic grenade launchers, light mortars (~82mm) etc. AFAIK, they become main infantry weapon, when fighting with competent forces. Don't forget level of mechanisation of modern forces.

Militants hit a tank with TOW near Salma, Latakia.

RuAF attack on al-Ghantoo village in northern Homs

Hezbollah's UAVs

Su-30SM over Tablisa

A summary of the events in Syria for 16 October 2015. /// Information on sorties of VKS RF for October 16 on the official websites of Defense of the Russian Federation are not presented, which is a bit unusual. /// Memorandum of Russian and US flight safety in Syria will be signed in the near future. /// The Turkish General Staff emphasized that the authorities will no longer tolerate violations of its air space. /// The Bulgarian authorities have refused permission for overflights for Russian Emergencies Ministry carrying humanitarian aid to Syria. The refusal of the Bulgarian side did not affect the intention of Russia to send humanitarian aid to Syria. Ministry of Emergency Situations plane flew to Latakia using the alternative route. "Emergencies Ministry plane delivered to Syria's population more than 20 tons of humanitarian aid - meat, fish and dairy canned food, sugar, as well as blankets and basic necessities," - said in the MOE representative. On the way back from Syria, plane took 56 citizens of Russia and the CIS. /// The first half of October (15 days) was characterized by a sharp increase in the use of ATGMs by militants. 61 launches were recorder. Following systems were used: - 51 - TOW; - 5 - Fagot; - 2 - Konkurs; - 2 - unidentified, - 1 - Milan. Groups that fired missiles: 10 - Fursan al-Haqq Brigade, 9 - Ghab Hawks Union, 8 - 13th Division and Saifullah Brigade, 7 - 1st Coastal Division and Pride Union, 2, - Jaish al-Islam, and North Homs Operations Room, 1 effective launch - Mountain Hawks Brigade, Nouredin Zanki Movement, 1st Regiment, 46th Division, 101th Infantry Division, Liwa al-Mujahereen wa-Ansar, Sham Legion and unknown. Missiles were used against tanks, BMPs, cars, tractors, bulldozers and other engineering vehicles, static weapons (ZU-23-2 and 12.7 HMGs for example) and infantry. /// Hama. The ongoing offensive freed Haldia city and previously occupied five settlements: Gur, Sem Ali, Thur-Maala, Al Ganta and Jhavalik, in which SAA conducting sweaping and claering. Fights currently going on near the settlement of Habit and Al-Latamna. /// Idlib. As a result of a successful attack, which began on Thursday, 87th and 10th tank brigades and units of the National Defence Force (NDF) occupied the city Sukayk. Strikes of SU-34 and Mi-24s of Russian VKS, have helped to successful attack hills Tal Tur'i by SAA forces near the town of al-Taman'eh. After the occupation of the height of Tal Tur'i Air Force launched a series of air strikes on militant targets in al-Taman'eh. Slow progress of SAA forces continues in the south of the province to the city and Han Sheikhoun al-Taman'eh, which is a stronghold of militants in the area. /// Aleppo. A few days earlier, [uS] coalition aircrafts bombed Aleppo power plant and substations. Because of destruction of power station, hospitals, schools and residents of Aleppo left without electricity, water pumping stations and sewerage stopped working. In connection with the incident, Head of the General Staff Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov said: "Normally we do not advise colleagues on how to conduct strikes. However, on October 11 near the village of Tell-Alam air strikes of the coalition destroyed power plant and transformer substation. I think our partners knew that power station worked eight hours a day. However, the strikes in a few days, and 11 October this plant was completely out of order. It seems that someone intentionally is destroying the infrastructure of settlements, making it impossible to have a life of civilians. And because of this, civilians, deprived the conditions for the existence, leaving settlements and increase the flow of refugees to Europe. " /// The visit of the commander of a special unit "Al-Quds" as part of the IRGC (Iran) continues, Major General Qasem Soleimani, who arrived in the area of al-Safeera, is watching the first stage of the offensive in the direction of the mountains of Azzan. At 10 am on Friday, SAA units, detachments of Hezbollah, the National Defence Force (NDF), and battalions of Al-Baas, launched an offensive in the southern province. Towns - Abtayn al-Wadayhi and Qala'at Al Najam, now are under control. The offensive is supported by VKS of Russian Federation. The main goal - to return Azzan mountain under SAR control and create a large buffer zone around the highway leading to the provincial capital. /// The offensive in the direction of the air base Kuveyris is currently ongoing. SAA took control of the settlement Muslimia, and most of the settlements Of Kafer-Tuma. There are reports that Al-Nasiriyah was captured by SAA, for further push to the city of Barayjeh. Advancing units of SAA are approaching the heavily fortified positions of militants in the area of Deir Hafer plains. The day before, surrounded garrison of Kuveyrisa conducted a special operation on the section of highway Aleppo - Raqqa, in order to disrupt the main supply routes of ISIS in that area. VKS of Russia airstrikes provided air cover and protected the air base from the attack of the ISIS. /// In Aleppo, [uS] coalition aircraft destroyed the car and the ISIS technical, near Washiyah - large IEDs, near Mar'a - ISIS tactical unit and motorcycle. /// Latakia. SAA occupied towns of Jhubga al-Ahmar, Rabia and Salma, and captured the height with the mark 1050, on the southern outskirts of the city Salma. It reported that more than 30 militants, mostly - foreign mercenaries, were killed. [story covered in one of previous posts] ///Daraa. On the Syrian-Jordanian border near the town of Herbet, Geza, traces of unidentified aircraft air strikes on buildings are found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=279_-4jaNeQ

In this area Mi-24s were spotted: Firing rockets: Looks like "carousel", so very likely to be ours pilots.