Sentences with phrase «russian air force»

An American spy plane was shot down by Russian missiles, carrying pictures of various Russian air force bases.

The approval rating of Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin is higher among his citizen due to the successful anti-terrorist operation in Syria where the Russian Air Force is conducting a successful campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and the accession of the Crimean Republic into the Russian Federation.

Not sure how having the backing of the Russian air force makes it unlikely that a Syrian government plane would carry out an attack.

Assad doesn't need to use chemical weapons when he has the whole might of the Russian air force backing him.

Even if Moscow manages to double that order under the latest rearmament push, it would amount to less than half of the aircraft the Russian Air Force initially expected to have in service by 2055.

The basic facts of the new intercept, as much as both sides agree on them, are that a U.S. Air Force F - 22 Raptor stealth fighter jammed itself in front of a pair of Russian Air Force Su - 25 Frogfoots near the Syrian city of Al Mayadin.

The Russian Air Force has been supporting the Syrian government since sending dozens of fighter and attack aircraft to an airbase near the Mediterranean Sea in September 2015.

Dealing with the second incident, U.S. officials told Fox News that a USAF F - 22 Raptor stealth fighter flew in front of a pair of Russian Air Force Su - 25 Frogfoot attack jets near Al Mayadin, Syria, «an area off - limits to Russian jets based on a long - standing mutual agreement».

U.S. military officials raised concerns about the incident through a hotline established in the past two years between American and Russian air forces.

Officially, there are no Russian air forces in Shayrat air base.

Not exact matches

The statement — crafted aboard Air Force One by Trump, Hicks and Kushner spokesman Josh Raffel and relayed to Trump Jr. — portrayed the meeting as being mostly about Russian adoptions.

The Russian military, whose forces are supporting Assad's government, said two Israeli F - 15 warplanes had struck the T - 4 air base, the Interfax news agency reported.

The seizure in June of the Castello Road, the last remaining route into the rebel - held eastern section of the city, by pro-government forces aided by Russian air support, made life even more difficult for the 300,000 Syrians still living there.

«A Russian Su - 35 fighter jet, performing an air cover mission at an altitude of 10,000 meters, swiftly approached the F - 22 from the rear, forcing the American aircraft to leave the area.»

In response to these US Air Force allegations, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major - General Igor Konashenkov told Russian media on Saturday that «most close - midair encounters between Russian and US jets in the area around the Euphrates River have been linked to the attempts of US aircraft to get in the way [of the Russian warplanes] striking against Islamic State terrorists.»

The son of a Russian interpreter for the People's Liberation Army Air Force, Wang grew up in Hong Kong and later returned to his birthplace in China in the 1990s to launch his delivery service, according to Bloomberg.

«It's interesting the Russians didn't raise these unfounded allegations until a New York Times article publicly exposed a serious matter the Coalition has tried diligently to address daily via the deconfliction line,» an Air Force official told Business Insider in an email on Tuesday.

«It's become increasingly tough for our pilots to discern whether Russian pilots are deliberately testing or baiting us into reacting, or if these are just honest mistakes,» U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Damien Pickart, a spokesperson, told The Times for their December 2017 article.

The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.

24 hours after his release, Oligrach Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ended a 10 - year sentence, appeared in Berlin wearing a heavy duty Russian air - force jacket and smiling broadly.

Iran forces are MUCH more powerful, they now have russian modern surface - to - air systems (S - 300).

The Syrian army can now safely redeploy part of their forces to the front with ISIS, they are now fighting in Palmyra, helped by Russian air strikes.

Trump said the projected cost of new Air Force One aircraft was too high, so the U.S. Air Force found a way to lower it: by buying a pair of Boeing 747 jetliners abandoned by a bankrupt Russian airline.

A Turkish Air Force F - 16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su - 24M Fencer Bomber near the Syria — Turkey border on 24 November 2015.

With growing Russian and Chinese threats to U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit, the Air Force is keeping the Boeing WGS - 8 checkout location and later operational location secret.

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force...

When Hitler destroyed 80 percent of the Soviet air force during the early days of World War II, the decorated Russian air hero, Colonel Maxim Chibisov, was personally selected by Joseph Stalin to fly to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, with 300 Soviet airmen.

In Naval War Arctic Circle where players control both Naval and Air forces in one of two campaigns — either Nato or Russian forces.

(Flavin — who had trained as a priest before going into the air force and then turning to art — had a well - documented obsession with Russian art and later dedicated a group of fluorescent light «monuments» to the Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, who had trained as an icon painter.)

Watch the look on those university bureaucrats» faces when Billy arrives to their next staff meeting aboard Air Force One and flanked by the Russian special forces, a Chinese aircraft carrier and an elephant.

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