What's this?! ... Breaking ...#Russia/ 7 jets destroyed in attack on #Hmeymim airbase.Mortar fire destroyed 4 Su-24 attack aircrafts, + more

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need your help guys , what ? how ? more ...

$400 mortar round does millions in damage.

Apparently this attack was on Dec 31st and they are just now letting us know?

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islamic attack ... but apparently earlyer ... 31 dec ?

What the shit? Who ever had watch when that happened should be put on Kitchen patrol.

Next thing you know they will accuse Nato of providing ntelligence to carry out attack...

Posted the same tweet without seeing this thread apologies.

Russian Clowns have been wiped out in Syria.

It is true.It was the reason Russia put 2 Doomsday planes up in the Air new years Eve.Base has been really fucked up.

They were probably all hammered on Vodka.

Russia is a fucking joke. They can’t even protect their own assets, never mind anyone elses.S400 is a pile of shit. Russian army is beyond useless.

It wasn't mortar it was israel

This story breaking everywhere now.Being tweeted and re-tweeted by MSM.

No way Russia is a threat to anyone other than their selves.

Shit happens in war.
In Afghanistan some Taliban snuck into a base and took out a Harrier (IIRC). Major security fuck up.

At least seven Russian planes were destroyed by rebel shelling at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria on 31 December, the Russian daily Kommersant reported late on Wednesday, citing two sources.

If confirmed, the attack would mark the single biggest loss of military hardware for Russia since it launched airstrikes in Syria in autumn 2015. More than 10 servicemen were wounded in the shelling by “radical Islamists”, the report said.

At least four Su-24 bombers, two Su-35S fighters and an An-72 transport plane, as well as an ammunition depot, were destroyed by the shelling, Kommersant said on its website, citing two “military-diplomatic” sources.

The attack came days after Vladimir Putin made a triumphant visit to Khmeimim,where he met his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and told the Russian air force detachment at the base: “You are coming back home with victory.

Kommersant said the Russian defence ministry had not commented. Reuters was not able to immediately reach the ministry.

Earlier on Wednesday, the ministry said a Mi-24 helicopter had crash-landed in Syria due to a technical fault and two pilots died.

Last month, Russia began establishing a permanent presence at Hmeymim and a naval base at Tartous although Putin has ordered a “significant” withdrawal of his military from Syria, declaring its work largely done.

Shit that is some major blow for our Russian compatriots,I am very sure that there will be massive repercussions for the bastards that did this.
However I am also quite sure that the garrison/airbase commander will have his arse in a sling

Syrian rebels=US, Israel, UK, Saudi Arabia etc......