with Captain Melania at the controls they renamed the jet a Citation XXX

“None of the Russian aircraft that had been flying in the conflict had modern defensive aid suites that protect against man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS)“

sigh... as I tried to explain in your last post. They DO have defensive suites and counter-measures, even a quick wiki search will tell you that.

The Iraqis are already using their Mi 28

Kamov has always maintained that having the crew side by side is more efficient and makes all their tasks easier. I’m inclined to agree.

Makes high fives easier.

Mi-28s. Ka-52s.

I’ll say they are the world most advanced attack helicopters (especially the Ka-52), not just Russia’s most advanced. Will love to see videos of this babies in action.

It was a lot higher, absolutly:

Actually, this is highly unlikely. If you look at overall general fund foreign reserves, and not one specific account mentioned in that article you’ll see that they have been stable for several months now.

Russian current foreign currency reserves ALONE are $360B general fund + $120B emergency fund= $480 Billion. This oft-repeated suggestions that the departure is driven by “running out of money” is simply not grounded in reality.

Call Putin what you will but, I must say he is a master at manipulating the long term. If this is the outcome as Tyler laid out he played his cards perfectly setting himself up as a major player in the region with little repercussions. It’s hard to even be mad about it, it really is a ingenious plan. He managed to put…

ISIS is starting to collapse, their finances are getting incredibly bad, because an oil road was cut. Also lost around 20% of their territories and it looks like they are going to loose Kirkuk region to Kurds, Hezbollah and Iraqi army in the coming weeks. ISIS are still a threat, but I don’t see them expanding any…

“Assad may not still be walking the earth if Russia hadn’t stepped in to defend him and his regime late last September”

they love to lean on that human rights shit, but we aren’t in N korea, or bombing The cartels so.... They need to stop using “human rights” as their reason all the time.

Yes. Exactly that. Everyone has a valid point in this fight. As usual.

Since September’s Russian intervention Assad’s forces have captured over 400 settlements and regained more than 10,000 sq/km of territory, particularly in the north of the country where they’ve divided rebel supply line in a manner where all non ISIS rebel territory in the country is surrounded on three sides by…

Judging by the number of fat and obese people roaming the streets of ‘Murica, I wouldn’t brag much :D

Russia didn’t exactly invade, and they were invited by the government of Syria. I don’t remember Saddam asking the US to come to Iraq to kick his own ass.

There was no jihadists of any kind in Iraq before US invasion.But i guess you are to dumb to understand that......

Well, you could see why people that grew up with this shit would get confused ...