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What is staying behind?
According to Murakhovsky, helicopter units will remain in their entirety to carry out search and rescue missions and tactical transportation in Syria. Russia is also leaving its military advisers to help the Syrian leadership in the fight against Islamic State militants.
'Russia is leaving its air defense systems in Syria in their entirety – S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems as well as Buk-M3, Tor-M2 and Pantsyr S-1 air defense missile systems," Viktor Litovkin, a retired colonel and TASS military analyst, told RBTH.
"Also, Russian navy warships will continue to operate in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, to be rotated in the normal mode,' he said.
According to him, the navy is tasked not only with the control and surveillance of ISIS militants, but also with monitoring NATO warships, which come to the Black Sea with SM-3 and Tomahawk cruise missiles on board.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/l...15-rbth01.htm?_m=3n.002a.1666.qa0ao069zz.1j4x
What is being withdrawn?
On the morning of March 15, the first group of Russian fighters and bombers left Syria en route to their sites of permanent deployment, according to a statement on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry.
The flights are being carried out in groups led by military transport aircraft (Tu-154 or Il-76), which transport engineers and technicians, as well as material and technical equipment.
Pilots fly in such a group until reaching the Russian border, and then head for the airfields where they are permanently deployed.
'Of the 60 fighters and bombers, more than half will be withdrawn, maybe two thirds,' said Murakhovsky.
'At the same time, the number of our troops in Syria will be reduced only slightly; this is necessary to ensure the safety of the permanent Russian military bases at the Khmeimim airfield and the port of Tartus.'
According to Murakhovsky, helicopter units will remain in their entirety to carry out search and rescue missions and tactical transportation in Syria. Russia is also leaving its military advisers to help the Syrian leadership in the fight against Islamic State militants.
'Russia is leaving its air defense systems in Syria in their entirety – S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems as well as Buk-M3, Tor-M2 and Pantsyr S-1 air defense missile systems," Viktor Litovkin, a retired colonel and TASS military analyst, told RBTH.
"Also, Russian navy warships will continue to operate in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, to be rotated in the normal mode,' he said.
According to him, the navy is tasked not only with the control and surveillance of ISIS militants, but also with monitoring NATO warships, which come to the Black Sea with SM-3 and Tomahawk cruise missiles on board.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/l...15-rbth01.htm?_m=3n.002a.1666.qa0ao069zz.1j4x
What is being withdrawn?
On the morning of March 15, the first group of Russian fighters and bombers left Syria en route to their sites of permanent deployment, according to a statement on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry.
The flights are being carried out in groups led by military transport aircraft (Tu-154 or Il-76), which transport engineers and technicians, as well as material and technical equipment.
Pilots fly in such a group until reaching the Russian border, and then head for the airfields where they are permanently deployed.
'Of the 60 fighters and bombers, more than half will be withdrawn, maybe two thirds,' said Murakhovsky.
'At the same time, the number of our troops in Syria will be reduced only slightly; this is necessary to ensure the safety of the permanent Russian military bases at the Khmeimim airfield and the port of Tartus.'
