The General Staff has decided to increase the air group in Syria, following an attack on the Su-24 – RBC

Russian Sukhoi Su-24M at the airport Hmeymim in Syria

Photo by Alexander Yelistratov / TASS

The General Staff is considering increasing the composition of the Russian air group in Syria for another 10-12 cars, wrote on Thursday, the newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to a source in the operational control of the military.

The publication stresses that the basis of the Russian air group in Hmeymime make Su-25SM (12 cars), Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 (12 machines), Su-27SM and Su-30cm (for four cars). There is also a military 12 attack helicopters Mi-24 and three multi-purpose Mi-8.

source publication said that before the incident with the Russian Su-24 bomber planes flew without any cover, because of the potential danger from the ground for they were not, and the threat of attack by aircraft of the coalition headed by the United States, no one seriously considered.

From now on, each of the 24 bombers will fly accompanied by the destroyer. According to the source, in this regard, the General Staff is considering increasing the fighter on Hmeymime another 10-12 cars to each of the Su-24M and Su-34 was working on targets in tandem with the Su-27SM and Su-30cm.

The day before it was decided to send to Syria advanced anti-aircraft missile systems (AAMS) S-400 “Triumph”. Source in the General Staff said that it was initially planned to throw to Syria several divisions of the older type (such as S-300PS or PMU), but the military offered Vladimir Putin to use that C-400, because then it becomes possible for the first time to test it in real conditions.

On Wednesday, Russian General Staff spoke about the response to Turkey downed Su-24. Told reporters the chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy, as one of these measures was the decision to carry out acts of strike aircraft “only under cover of fighter aircraft».