Russian cruise missiles hit 18 ISIS targets from Caspian Sea
by Joseph
Earnest November 20, 2015
Newscast Media MOSCOW—Russian warships from the Caspian flotilla have launched 18 cruise
missiles on terrorist targets in Syria, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu said on Friday.
"On November 20, warships of the Caspian
Flotilla launched 18 cruise missiles on seven [terrorist] targets
in the provinces of Raqqa, Idleb and Aleppo. All targets were
destroyed," Shoigu said in a report to president Vladimir Putin.
"In
the whole, during the aerial operation cruise missile were launched
from the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas over a distance of up to 1,500
km, and aircraft were taking off from Russian and Syrian airfields. From
the Caspian Sea, 29 aircraft of the long-range and bomber aviation were
involved in the airstrikes."
According to Shoigu, ten ships are involved in Russia's military operations in Syria, six of them are in the Mediterranean Sea.
"In
the past four days, Russia's strategic and tactical aviation carried
out 522 combat sorties, a total of 101 air-and sea-based cruise missiles
were launched, some 1,400 tones of bombs of various types were
dropped."
He added that during the mission the operational range of Tu-160 strategic bombers from the Mediterranean was over 13,000 km.
"A total of 826 enemy targets were destroyed," Shoigu added.
"Each
day, 143 sorties are carried out. The sea fraction includes ten ships,
six of which are in the Mediterranean Sea," the minister said.
"In
accordance with your instructions, the [Russian] Armed Forces are
carrying out a retaliation operation to destroy the leaders of terrorist
organizations and their supporters, disorganize their control and
logistics systems, as well as destroy ISIL military and oil and gas
infrastructure." Add
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