Russia sets up air base in Qamishli, challenges US/Israeli air force for control of northeast Syria.............
The arrival this week in Qamishli of 50 Russian military trucks, 300 troops and hardware confirmed the revised US intelligence regarding Moscow’s military intentions in Syria, as Israel Report revealed on Saturday 09 November.
Until recently, US strategic experts estimated that Moscow’s interests focused on expanding its Mediterranean coastal footholds up to Libya, for which the Khmeimim air base was designed.
This US assessment changed abruptly two weeks ago, when the first Russian military delegation arrived in Qamishli, capital of the Kurdish cantons in northern Syria.
The delegation was first thought to be looking for accommodation for the Russian troops taking part in joint patrols with Turkey along a 10-km deep strip on the Syrian-Turkish border.
But when Russian officials were photographed closely examining Qamishli airport and asking Syrian and Kurdish officials technical questions, warning signals flashed. Moscow was now seen to be eyeing Qamishli airport for conversion into a major military airfield to compete with expanding US military involvement in the region.
The Russians were then discovered negotiating a 49-year lease for Qamishli airfield with local Kurdish authorities. That contract was to keep part of the area in civil aviation use, while a large section was to be closed off as a Russian military facility.
The deal is evidently now in the bag reliable military sources report.
Substantial Russian military forces have since arrived at Qamishli: 50 trucks with 300 soldiers, consisting of a combat contingent for securing the new Russian air base and an engineering unit to build it;
Mi-35 and Mi-8 assault helicopters have also landed, as well as Pantsir-S air defence systems for stationing around the facility.
Loud explosions emanating from the site in the last few days indicate that construction work has begun for expanding the small Qamishli airport into a large air base able to accommodate the landings of Russian fighter jets and large air freighters.
Moscow has clearly decided against allowing the US military to play unchallenged on the strategic playing field of north-eastern Syrian and negotiated a counter-bid with America’s own Kurdish allies.
“Be prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled unto you, and be a guard for them”
Iran claims manufacture of air defence laser cannons...........
November 18, 2019
Iran’s Deputy Defence Minister Qassem Taqizadeh claimed on Saturday that the ministry has started manufacturing air defence laser cannons [pictured above] for downing quadcopters and small aircraft.
He also boasted that Iran has improved the range and precision of ground-launched cruise missiles with a new digital mapping system, which is still in testing stages.
He claimed that Iran is now among the world’s “top five powers in the missile industry.”
Tests for increasing the range of and precision of ground-to-ground cruise missiles are almost complete.
“And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: PERSIA, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his hordes: and many people with you. [Ezekiel 38;4-6]
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