Tuesday, November 8, 2016

“Admiral Kuznetsov” ready to strike at the outskirts of Aleppo – RBC

aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”

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carrier aviation “Admiral Kuznetsov” in the next few hours preparing to inflict strikes on the positions of militants near Aleppo, according to sources in the Russian defense Ministry.

Carrier group of the Navy of Russia led by the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to put in the next clock strikes on militants in the far outskirts of Aleppo. About it reports “Interfax” citing a source in the Russian defense Ministry.

the Source said that the strikes will cause carrier aviation “Admiral Kuznetsov” and warships of the Russian Navy, equipped with precision weapons. “Attempts to break the militants in Aleppo from the outside are senseless”, — quotes Agency the words of your source.

that the aircraft “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready in the next day to strike in Syria, according to “Газета.Ru” with reference to a source in the Russian defense Ministry. According to the source, the main task of the aircraft carrier group “to launch missile and air strikes on seeking to break into the Aleppo armed gangs on the distant approaches”. After the attacks on targets of militants “on the support from the outside are blocked in the Eastern districts of Aleppo, the terrorists will just forget,” said he.

the ship group that arrived in the Mediterranean sea, in addition to “Admiral Kuznetsov” also includes the heavy nuclear missile cruiser “Peter the Great” and a large anti-submarine ships “Severomorsk” and “Vice-Admiral Kulakov”.

Now determined the areas of concentration of terrorist groups and identified the routes of movement, the source said. To do this in Syria by group of Russian intelligence agents, among which unmanned aerial vehicles and means of electronic intelligence, he added. “The militants took advantage of a humanitarian pause and spent a regrouping of their forces to prepare for a new breakthrough in the Eastern part of Aleppo,” he said.

According to the interlocutor of the edition in the course of large missile and air strikes will be applied to new samples of weapons, including cruise missiles “Caliber”. With what kind of ships will launch missiles, the source said. The blow to fighters with cruise missiles “Caliber” and carrier-based aircraft will be put on the far outskirts of Aleppo, said the interlocutor of the edition. The strikes on residential areas will not be the source of the “Газеты.Ru”.

Among the vehicles in the group of the Navy in the Mediterranean sea there is no ship that can use cruise missiles, sea-launched 3M-14 “Calibre-NK”, the newspaper writes. However, firing strikes on militants, it is possible to use missiles “Kalibr-PL” that are launched from submarines.

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Navy group led by the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” can be used for strikes against the “civilian population in Aleppo.”

the Russian foreign Ministry in turn called the fears of the head of the NATO “ridiculous assumptions”.

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