On the eve of the Russian airbase "Hmeymim" we have been re-applied air defenses. Representatives of the Coordination Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties confirmed the information, that insurgents have once again tried to attack "Hmeymim" using unmanned aerial vehicles, Loaded explosive device.
According to Major-General Alexei Tsygankov, UAV was launched from the territories controlled by the rebels Latakia province. territory, controlled by illegal armed groups, located in the north of Latakia.
UAV fighters, intercepted during one of the previous attacks “Xmejmim”
From the report of the Russian general:
Regular anti-aircraft firepower air goal was wiped away from the airbase. Injured or material damage is not. Russian airbase "Hmeymim" -funktsioniruet as planned.
earlier it was reported, that previous attacks using drones suppressed using ZRPK “shell”.
Militants have stepped up efforts to explicitly attack the Russian air base in recent years. meanwhile, Russian aircraft in conjunction with the Syria Air Force for several days led the successful military operation in the south of CAP, causing a series of blows to the terrorists' positions in the Golan Heights. Syrian airstrikes have allowed government forces to take control of several key settlements and put the terrorist groups in Daraa and Quneitra in such conditions, which ultimately will have to either stop the resistance, or be destroyed in the Syrian sands. There is a third option: someone decides to evacuate the militants along with equipment to third countries for a possible conservation as a tool to achieve their goals.
