Syyrian konflikti/sota

Venäjän lentotukialus tulee ilmeisesti osallistumaan taistelutoimiin lokakuusta tammikuuhun. Kalustona Su-33 ja MiG-29K/KUB hävittäjät sekä Ka-52K, Ka-27 ja Ka-31 helikopterit.
Operaation jälkeen alkaa Admiral Kuznetsovin modernisaatio, mikä vienee vuosia.

http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/3424393
 
Tälläistä vinkkiä. Ei vahvistettu
 
Tuolla on ainakin tapeltu kunnolla ja daeshit voittivat tämän erän.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...order-town-backed-rebels-160629132742057.html
29 JUNE 2016
ISIL retakes Syria border town from US-backed rebels
ISIL has recaptured a strategic border crossing between Syria and Iraq just hours after losing it to US-backed rebels.

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has pushed back an offensive led by US-trained rebels targeting a key route linking eastern Syria to Iraq, according to a monitor and rebel sources.

The New Syrian Army, backed by US-led coalition air strikes, had made significant advances into ISIL-held territory near the al-Bukamal border crossing, seizing the al-Hamdan airbase in the process, but ISIL fighters had recaptured the area out by Wednesday afternoon.

"The attack failed. They lost control of the airport," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The observatory chief said that US-backed rebels were still inside Deir Az Zor, but had been forced to give up the recently gained territory.

An anonymous rebel source told Reuters that ISIL fighters had surrounded the US-trained fighters in a surprise ambush, inflicting heavy casualties and seizing weapons.

"The news is not good. I can say our troops were trapped and suffered many casualties and several fighters and even weapons were taken," he said.

The ISIL-affiliated Amaq news agency reported earlier in the day that the group had killed 40 rebel fighters and taken at least 15 prisoner during a counteroffensive at the Hamadan airbase northwest of the city.

The New Syrian Army's offensive aimed at capturing al-Bukamal was coordinated with Iraqi government forces who were advancing towards the crossing on the other side of the border.

A spokesman for the Pentagon-sponsored rebels told the Associated Press that fighters had been dropped from coalition helicopters on al-Bukamal's southern edge to assist in the operation.

The US-led coalition said it had conducted eight air strikes near al-Bukamal and five near al-Qaim, on the Iraqi side of the border.

ISIL seized the border crossing in mid-2014, as it overran swaths of the oil-rich Deir Az Zor province, effectively erasing the demarcation line between Syria and Iraq.

A rebel takeover of the border crossing would be a heavy blow to ISIL's self-declared, cross-border "caliphate", effectively splitting its territorial holdings in two and preventing the transfer of fighters and weapons between the two countries.

The US-led coalition has stepped up its campaign against the hardline group this month. An alliance of US-backed militias, including the Kurdish YPG, launched a separate offensive against the group earlier in the month on the ISIL-held city of Manbij in northern Syria.

The Iraqi government declared victory over the weekend in its fight against the group in Fallujah, taking control of the city after nearly two years of rule by ISIL, also known as ISIS.

The New Syrian Army has received military training in US-run camps in Jordan, but according to rebel sources, most of their training is now being conducted at a base in al-Tanf, a border town southwest of al-Bukamal, which the rebels captured from ISIL earlier this year.

Al-Tanf was hit twice earlier this month by Russian air strikes.
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http://www.armytimes.com/story/mili...acked-syria-rebels-near-iraq-border/86516666/
ISIS repels advance by U.S.-backed Syria rebels near Iraq border
Sarah el Deeb, The Associated Press1:33 p.m. EDT June 29, 2016

BEIRUT — Islamic State militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, in a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants' transit link between the two countries, a rebel spokesman said.

The Islamic State-linked Aamaq news agency said IS militants repelled the New Syrian Army from an air base which the rebels had briefly captured earlier in the day. IS said it seized 15 hostages and ammunition, and was still advancing against the rebels.

Earlier Wednesday, the Pentagon-trained force entered the Hamdan air base — northwest of the border town of Boukamal — following intense clashes, rebel spokesman Mozahem al-Saloum said.

He said airborne fighters were dropped from coalition helicopters on Boukamal's southern edge, helping the rebels advance. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on local activists, confirmed the account.

The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said foreign airborne fighters were also dropped to the north, enabling the takeover of the base. The rebels were heavily backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and were coordinating their fight with Iraqi tribesmen and forces on the other side of the border, al-Saloum said.

The U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against IS in Iraq and Syria since 2014 and 300 U.S. Special Forces are embedded with a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria. It was not immediately clear whether U.S. forces were involved in the Boukamal offensive or what other nations might be taking part in it. The U.S. Central Command said coalition jets carried out several airstrikes on IS targets in the Boukamal area.

Col. Chris Garver, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, said in a briefing that the U.S has provided advice and assistance to the New Syrian Army as well as airstrikes in both Syria and Iraq in support of the operation. He did not mention the setback or the helicopter-borne movement of Syrian fighters.

The Observatory said several hundred rebels from different factions were involved in the offensive, which began on Tuesday. It said IS fighters have dug trenches and planted land mines south of the town.

Al-Saloum acknowledged that the New Syrian Army forces were unable to keep the base and other outposts to the south, near the Qaim border crossing with Iraq, but said the offensive would continue.

Wednesday's setback was another blow to the rebel group. Two weeks ago, Washington accused Russian aircraft of bombing the rebels near the Iraqi border. Russia has been carrying out airstrikes in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces since September.

IS seized much of the Iraq-Syria border in its 2014 blitz, along with large swaths of territory in both countries, declaring an Islamic caliphate. But IS has in recent weeks been losing ground, both in Iraq and in Syria.

The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces have besieged Manbij, an IS stronghold in northern Syria, while Iraqi forces have taken Fallujah, in Iraq's western Anbar province, from the Sunni extremist group.

Meanwhile, aid was delivered to the besieged Syrian towns of Zamalka and Irbin for the first time since 2012, when the two rebel-held areas east of Damascus were besieged by government forces. The 37-truck convoy organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the U.N. and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent carried enough food and medical aid for 20,000 people.

Further north, another joint convoy carrying food and medicine was delivered to the besieged suburb of west Harasta, which has a population of about 12,500, according to ICRC spokeswoman Ingy Sedky.

Associated Press writer Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Daeshin edustaja on tainnut tehdä tapahtumasta Wikipedia-artikkelin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_al-Bukamal_offensive
 
USA on jatkanut sanktioita kahdelle venäläiselle yritykselle ja asetti kolmelle uudelle USAn lain rikkomisesta - joukkotuhoaseiden teknologian myymisesta Syyrian, Irakiin ja Pohjois-Koreaan.

Kolomna Design Bureau of Machine-Building (KBM) (Russia) and any successor, sub-unit, or subsidiary thereof;

Kuntsevo Design Bureau (Russia) and any successor, sub-unit, or subsidiary thereof

NPO Mashinostroyeniya (NPOM) (Russia) and any successor, sub-unit, or subsidiary thereof
https://www.federalregister.gov/art...eign-persons-including-a-ban-on-us-government

Saattaa olla että kuuluu johonkin toiseen ketjuun..
 
Bellum kirjoitti:
On se käynyt voimannäyttönä alueella sisällissodan aikana jo kahteen kertaan, 2012 ja 2014. Mutta taistelutoimintaan se ei ole aiemmin osallistunut.
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Et ole supervalta ennenkuin pommitat arabeja lentotukialukselta...
Eihän Kuznetsovilla ole aikaisemmin ollut oikein edes kykyä lentopommituksiin. MiG-29K:lla on täydet rynnäkköominaisuudet. Muutama rynnäkkölento näyttää hyvältä uutispätkissä ja antaa laivastolle sulan hattuun jolla perustella uusia investointeja tukialuksiin.
 
Bellum kirjoitti:
Venäjän lentotukialus tulee ilmeisesti osallistumaan taistelutoimiin lokakuusta tammikuuhun. Kalustona Su-33 ja MiG-29K/KUB hävittäjät sekä Ka-52K, Ka-27 ja Ka-31 helikopterit.
Operaation jälkeen alkaa Admiral Kuznetsovin modernisaatio, mikä vienee vuosia.

http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/3424393
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Suameks ->
Venäjä lähettää lisää rautaa Syyriaan - "ruosteinen hylky"
Venäjän ainoa lentotukialus lähtee Syyrian rannikolle, kertoo Tass.

    • Venäjä vahvistaa joukkojaan Välimerellä, kertoo Tass omaan lähteeseensä nojaten.
    • Lentotukialus Amiraali Kuznetsov ei ole koskaan ollut tositoimissa.
    • Alus on Venäjän laivaston suurin.

Amiraali Kuznetsovin kiitoradan päässä on hyppyri. Kuva vuodelta 2004. (AP)
Venäjä lisää iskukykyään Syyriassa, kertoo valtio-omisteinen uutistoimisto Tass. Amiraali Kuznetsov -lentotukialus aloittaa tehtävät lokakuun lopulla, ja niitä on tarkoitus jatkaa ensi vuoden tammikuuhun saakka.

Asiasta kertoo Tassille nimetön "diplomaatti- ja sotilaslähde". Virallista vahvistusta asialle ei ole.

Jos uutinen pitää paikkansa, kyseessä on ensimmäinen kerta, kun 90-luvulta lähtien toimintakunnossa ollut alus osallistuu tositoimiin.

Englanninkielisessä mediassa uutista sekä aluksen iskukykyä on jo ehditty vähättelemään.

- Tuhat jalkaa pitkä Kuznetsov on ruosteinen, vuotava ja altis polttoainevuodoille sekä kuolemaan johtaville onnettomuuksille, yhdysvaltalainen The Daily Beast -lehti kirjoittaa.

Lehti nimittää alusta ruosteiseksi hylyksi.

- Venäjän onnettomuusaltis lentotukialus joutuu testiin - jos se pääsee perille, australialainen News.com.au puolestaan kirjoittaa.

Artikkelissa huomautetaan, että Kuznetsovin historia on täynnä noloja rikkoutumisia.

Kuznetsovin merkitys lieneekin lähinnä symbolinen ja tarkoitettu tasaamaan voimasuhteita Välimerellä. Venäjä on aiemmin kritisoinut Yhdysvaltoja voimasuhteiden horjuttamisesta. USA:lla on alueella kaksi lentotukialusta.

Alukselle mahtuu noin 15 hävittäjää. Vertailun vuoksi Yhdysvaltojen lentotukialuksilta operoi yli 60 konetta. Aluksella ei ole ilmaan nousua helpottavaa katapulttia eli siltä lähtevät koneet joutuvat nousemaan ilmaan kevyellä kuormalla, ja koneet on suunnattu lähinnä ilmataisteluihin.

Lisäksi Venäjällä on jo toimiva tukikohta Syyrian Hmeimimissä, josta se kykenee pommittamaan terroristikohteita Syyriassa.
http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2016070721860994_ul.shtml
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