From Putin’s annual Q&A, a question about the cost of Russia’s military operation in Syria, where its warplanes began a campaign of air strikes in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on September 30:
“It does not impose additional pressure on the budget. We just used a portion of the finances we had allocated for training and military maneuvers to conduct our Military-Space Forces’ operations in Syria. It’s hard to imagine any better training ... We can train for quite a long time there.”
[Credit: Will Baird Doug Muir for news and Doug Muir Will Baird for title.]
lol.
You need to flip around the credit for the news and the title. /Most/ of the time, I have been providing the Russia based news, but this time Doug did the honors.
And I got to be the flippant one. :)
Posted by: Will Baird | January 06, 2016 at 07:28 PM
I hate email threads.
Posted by: Noel Maurer | January 06, 2016 at 07:29 PM
http://theaviationist.com/2016/02/29/job-done-russias-most-advanced-spyplane-is-returning-home-after-deployment-in-syria/
Training done with this one.
Posted by: Will Baird | February 29, 2016 at 02:38 PM