Judging from their performance in Syria it is easy to see why Vietnam was such a disaster for the US. Seems like hiring foreign mercenaries is their only method of waging war anymore. How the mighty have fallen.
Yawn... the only aircraft getting splashed are Russians and Syrians.
It isn't like the S-400 is shooting and missing is it?? Seems like the US has been stalemated for 5 years in Syria, Russia has only been there a year and that is in a very limited role. You been drinking Hillary's joy juice again??
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Commenting on Saturday's attack by US-led coalition fighter jets against Syrian army forces in the besieged city of Deir ez-Zor, respected Middle East expert Evgeny Satanovsky told Russian media that he couldn't help but get the feeling that the attack was no accident, but rather a consequence of Washington's incoherent Syria policy.
On September 17, two F-16 fighters and two A-10 ground attack aircraft launched airstrikes in the area of Deir ez-Zor, a government-controlled city in eastern Syria besieged by Daesh for nearly two years. The attack left over 60 Syrian servicemen dead, and wounded over 100 more. In response to the strike, the Syrian Army's High Command announced an end to the Russian and US sponsored ceasefire that stepped into force earlier this month.
On Wednesday, speaking before the UN Security Council, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered support for Damascus, emphasizing that "the [US-led] coalition's airstrikes on the government forces in Deir ez-Zor on September 16 [were] a flagrant violation of the [agreement on the] cessation of hostilities."
"Immediately after these airstrikes, Daesh terrorists started to attack the Syrian Army," Lavrov added. Speaking to Russia's Vzglyad newspaper, Evgeny Satanovsky, respected Middle East expert and president of the Moscow-based Middle East Institute, warned that the situation in the country is quickly spinning out of control, with the US coalition and its 'moderate rebel' patrons sharing the lion's share of the blame. "Over three hundred violations and attacks: Washington cannot or does not want to do anything here" (to correct the situation), the expert complained. As for the attack on the Syrian army, "inflicted by the US, the British and the Danes, it shows either that the intelligence of the US and its partners is worthless," or that this is Washington's twisted interpretation of the meaning of "demonstrating their commitment to the [ceasefire] agreement."
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160921/1045560822/us-syria-attack-expert-commentary.html
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US-led coalition's 'Predator' attack drone was spotted around Urum al-Kubra at the time of attack on the UN convoy, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Wednesday.
"In the evening on September 19, exactly in the area [where the UN humanitarian convoy was] at an altitude of 3,600 meters was a US-led-coalition UAV flying at a speed of 200kmph," the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
'Predator' drone had taken off from Incirlik air base in Turkey and left Urum al-Kubra area half an hour after the incident with UN humanitarian convoy, Konashenkov added.
According to Konashenkov, "the aircraft was by identified by Russia's air surveillance system as a Predator-type UAV." "This aircraft appeared in the Urum al-Kubra area several minute prior to the attack on the convoy and left the area about 30 minutes later," Konashenkov stressed, questioning the purpose of the Predator's mission.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160921/1045559448/us-predator-drone-syria-russia.html