How is Russian troops living in Syria?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In any discussion of Russian problems, the opposing side almost always asks the same question - what are we doing in Syria? This is a hint that we, like the USSR, have gotten into other people's business and are again spending money on foreign countries, but our people are "undernourished."

There are several arguments to answer this question, but few people from the opposite side are able to understand such as "national interests", even when you start talking about the paths of gas and oil pipelines and ending with the fact that it is easier to destroy terrorists on foreign territory.

But there is one nuance that many people forget about …

Russian Defense Minister: “As a result of the hostilities in Syria, we naturally carried out a large debriefing, and not one, and not ten. I can tell you that about 300 types of weapons were modified taking into account the Syrian experience, and 12 samples that were considered promising, we simply removed from production and from service."

In general, the ability to test weapons, various systems and personnel in real combat conditions is very expensive. In the future, in a critical situation, this will save a huge number of its citizens and can radically change the course of events in its favor.

Shoigu also added that "commanders of regiments, brigades, divisions, commanders of armies, commanders of military districts" and other representatives of the army, including the teaching staff of almost all higher military educational institutions, passed through Syria.

The Minister noted that after being used in the ATS, the Caliber cruise missiles were also modernized.

“If we talk about the use of high-precision weapons, then, for example, before loading a flight mission into a cruise missile“Caliber”it took so much time that the target could leave. And today, the loading time of the flight mission into the "Caliber" has decreased, I emphasize, several times. And this work to reduce the time for transmitting target designations is ongoing,”he said.

One of the most modern Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopters will be seriously modernized. The experience of operating these machines in Syria has revealed several weaknesses that need to be addressed.

A number of shortcomings were revealed in the combat multifunctional robot "Uran-9" during its use in Syria. Military experts found flaws in the control, mobility, firepower, reconnaissance and observation functions of the robot. All this will be fixed in the near future.

And so on. I don't think I mentioned all the nuances that the military revealed during their participation in the Syrian events.

I often hear about the cost of an operation that Russia pays in Syria. And how much are the future non-dead soldiers and the end of some kind of future military conflict in favor of Russia?