{"id":39917,"date":"2018-10-31T05:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39917"},"modified":"2018-10-31T05:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:56:19","slug":"russia-ready-to-shoot-down-u-s-spy-plane-behind-attacks-on-airbase-says-defense-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39917","title":{"rendered":"Russia “Ready To Shoot Down” U.S. Spy Plane Behind Attacks On Airbase, Says Defense Official"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia “Ready To Shoot Down” U.S. Spy Plane Behind Attacks On Airbase, Says Defense Official<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A Russian defense official has doubled down on prior claims that the United States was behind a prior massive drone attack against\u00a0Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia (alternately Hmeimim), which has further come under sporadic waves of attack by small armed drones which have appeared increasingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Shamanov, head of the lower parliamentary house’s defense committee and a former airborne troops commander, warned, according to a translation of his Tuesday statement by\u00a0Russian Market<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

In case of another U.S. drone attack on Russian Military Base in Syria, Russia is ready to shoot-down that plane<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The threat was made against an American spy plane possibly being in the area near Syria to coordinate any future attack. Last week the Kremlin\u00a0said, based on new intelligence<\/a> provided by the Russian defense ministry, that\u00a0a major attack on Khmeimim\u00a0last January was coordinated by a US P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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US P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The nighttime January 8th attack<\/a> which involved 13 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in total\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>10 approached Khmeimim while 3 attempted an attack on the naval facility in Tartus. That significant attack came after a prior New Year’s eve drone assault actually damaged Russian jets parked at the airbase.<\/p>\n

Last weekend\u00a0President Putin himself addressed the uptick in drone attacks especially over just the past two months<\/strong> while in discussions with the leaders of Germany, France and Germany in Istanbul, according to TASS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Terrorists continue attacks in Idlib, with dozens of drones shot down near the Russian military base in the country in the past two months or so,\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters after a four-party summit on Syria held in Istanbul on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Russia “Ready To Shoot Down” U.S. Spy Plane Behind Attacks On Airbase, Says Defense Official A Russian defense official has doubled down on prior claims that the United States was behind a prior massive drone attack against\u00a0Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia (alternately Hmeimim), which has further come under sporadic waves of attack by small armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22694,22693,694,5601,776,827,22607],"class_list":["post-39917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armed-drones","tag-khmeimim-air-base","tag-russia","tag-spy-plane","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-shamanov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39918,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions\/39918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}