Russian Air Force Targets over 1,300 Terrorist Positions in Syria

The Russian Air Force carried out a number of 530 combat sorties over the gatherings, positions and movements of the terrorist groups across Syria, destroying over 1,300 positions in one week, a Russian media outlet reported on Friday.

Krasnaya Zvezda, an official newspaper affiliated to the Russian Defense Ministry, reported that the warplanes carried out 530 combat flights, targeting 1,320 positions of the terrorist groups in the last one week.

A satellite image released in early August showed that an active air defense base in Syria equipped with the most advanced S300 and S400 air-defense systems was ready to give harsh response to any possible assault.

The satellite picture showed that what appears to be a battery-sized detachment of either highly-modernized S-300 or newer S-400 model strategic anti-aircraft missiles

The base was geo-located to a highly-militarized area on the provincial borders of Tartus and Hama provinces.

Whether the missile system operators belong to the Syrian Armed Forces or the Russian Armed Forces could not officially be confirmed, however, some social media sources claimed that the base was also used to launch Oniks cruise missiles from Bastion-P transporters late last year; this would indicate that the S-300/400s were a Russian asset.