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2018-01-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Poor Man's Air Force? Rebel Drones Attack Russia's Airbase in Syria - bellingcat
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Posted by newc 2018-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 ...Although the JV has figured out how to use drones, I am extremely skeptical of the 'swarm attack' claim. I'm thinkin' - and your mileage may vary, of course - that the Soviet Russian base got hit by an old-time ground attack, and this is the official cover explanation.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-01-13 06:51||   2018-01-13 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 They're also upset that there was an E-8 cruising past in the Med when this all went down.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-01-13 09:59||   2018-01-13 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Excuse me, P-8.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-01-13 10:00||   2018-01-13 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't add up. Allegedly these drones had over the horizon capability (not bargain basement). They were a coordinated, even slaved attack but not synchronized to qualify as swarming. The Russians just happened to have the correct assets available and alert to tag all the inbounds within a very narrow reaction window.

My take is the Russian version of a "red team" conducted a planned exercise simulating a multiple vector deliberate attack to test the resilience of the SOP defenses. That explains the field expedient drones, the lack of penetration/damage.

Otherwise it would seem to simply be a probing attack against a brittle (not hard) target. Note there is no independent confirmation that the mortar round payloads were live or inert
Posted by Blossom Hupager6063 2018-01-13 20:56||   2018-01-13 20:56|| Front Page Top

#5 if they had used these RC planes as cheap models of a swarm the attack would have been much more effective.

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-13 21:56||   2018-01-13 21:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Russians said they tapped in to a data port and were able to bring seven of them down.

The drones' flight path was programmed and supposedly impervious to jamming. A nearby Russian ELINT unit was able to tap into the drones' data port and to bring some of them down.
Posted by badanov 2018-01-13 22:05|| http://www.chriscovert.net  2018-01-13 22:05|| Front Page Top

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