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Russian military facilities in Syria attacked a aircraft type of drone with GPS. This was stated in the Ministry of Defense, reports Interfax.

"The terrorists for the first time massaged used aircraft type of aircraft type, launched with a range of more than 50 km using modern guidance technologies for GPS satellite coordinates," the fact that the militants of shock unmanned aerial vehicles indicates that the militants have transmitted technologies that allow terrorist acts with the use of similarity unmanned aerial vehicles in any country. "

An attempt to attack the terrorists on Russian objects in Syria with the help of drones was repulsed by electronic warfare and air defense systems "shell-s".

“Ten shock unmanned aerial vehicles approached the Khmeimim Russian air base and three more to the material and technical support point of the Russian Navy in the city of Tartus,” the Ministry of Defense noted. “Seven unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by regular anti -aircraft missiles of Russian Air Defense Pvo, which were not involved duty ".

Six more drones intercepted the Russian units of the electronic warfare. "Of these, three were put on the controlled territory outside the base, and three more unmanned aerial vehicles during landing were detonated from a collision with the ground," the Ministry of Defense said. The data of intercepted drones are deciphered, the exact place of their launch is determined. None of the Russian military was injured, there is no material damage at Russian facilities.

On the eve of the Khmeimim airbase reflected in January 6, reflected on January 6, the Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center (SOHR) reported. It was noted that the drone was launched by a certain Islamic group operating in rural areas in the northeast of Muhafazy Latakia.

This attack of Russian objects in Syria against the base has already become the third in the last two weeks. On December 27, 2017, information appeared that the militants of the Islamic Party of Turkestan fired at the base of Khmeimim Grad . Three issued shells were reported, two of which were shot down by the PAPIRA Air Defense System, and the third fell away from Khmeimim. After the attack, Russian aircraft launched a massive bombardment of the Jisr-Esh-Shugur district in Muhafaz Idlib-the main base of the Islamic Party of Turkestan, from where, as it was claimed, missiles were released.

On January 3, Kommersant said that the militants of a certain Islamist group on the last day of 2017 fired at Khmeimim from mortars . It was claimed that four Su-24 bombers, two Su-35C fighters and the An-72 transport aircraft were destroyed. In addition, an ammunition warehouse exploded from the projectile. The number of victims of the Russian military, the newspaper reported, could be more than a dozen.

Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense, confirming the next day the fact of mortar shelling and reporting the death of the two military as a result of the attack, the message about the destruction of aircraft called Fake.

However, later the military journalist Roman Saponkov wrote on his VK page that the technique was still injured, and in evidence of this, he cited photographs of the shelled aircraft. At the same time, according to the journalist, which he called the preliminary, not seven units of equipment were injured, but ten: six Su-24, one Su-35s, one An-72, as well as one An-30 reconnaissance aircraft and one Mi-8 helicopter. Back to duty, added Saponkov, entered only three sheated aircraft: two Su-24 and Su-35C.

At the same time, Sohr wrote on his Saturday that the shelling was not from mortars on December 31, but, like the 6th, from a drone.

On December 11, Khmeimim was visited by Vladimir Putin . There he announced that the victory over the Islamists as a whole has been achieved and now a “significant part” of the Russian troops would be withdrawn from Syria.