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https://warisboring.com/heres-the-key-to-understanding-the-russian-air-force-s-actions-in-syria-68aa3e4f8d0d Pirmkārt tā ir propagandas ākstīšanās ar militāri relatīvi nenozīmīgiem rezultātiem. Safety is a paramount issue — not only because Russian military commanders dislike the idea of losing aircraft, regardless if in training or in combat, but because their political masters, ever mindful of the propaganda value of Russian operations, cannot afford bad news. Therefore, well above 95 percent of combat sorties by Russian fighter-bombers are flown at medium altitudes between 15,000 and 20,000 feet, where aircraft remain outside the reach of enemy defenses — especially man-portable air-defense systems. Whether the mission is flown by day or by night, more than 80 percent of weaponry deployed by the VKS is so-called “dumb” bombs. Obviously, when dropped from medium altitudes against geographic coordinates — frequently through cloud cover — such weapons are grossly inaccurate. According to Moscow, physical laws and weather do not matter to the VKS. Some of the target-selection can only be described as “caused by frustration.” In more than 9,000 combat sorties flown between late September 2015 and late February 2016, the VKS managed to kill only about a dozen local insurgent commanders, a handful of Al Nusrah officers and not a single ISIS leader.