Defiance: Russia to Reportedly Deliver Combat Jets to Syria
- Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:31am by
Billy Hallowell
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Syrian President Bashar Assad (AP Photo/SANA)
MOSCOW (The Blaze/AP) — Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s regime, a newspaper reported Monday.
The business daily Kommersant said, citing an identified source close to Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms trader, that the $550-million deal envisages the delivery of 36 Yak-130 aircraft. A spokesman for Rosoboronexport refused to comment on the report.
If confirmed, the deal would mark an open defiance of international efforts to put pressure on Assad’s regime, which has faced broad condemnation for its brutal crackdown on an uprising. The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have died over 10 months. In recent months, the Blaze has covered the horrific reports coming out of the country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AP)
Russia‘s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last week that Moscow doesn’t consider it necessary to offer an explanation or excuses over suspicions that a Russian ship had delivered munitions to Syria despite an EU arms embargo.
Lavrov told a news conference that Russia was acting in full respect of international law and wouldn’t be guided by unilateral sanctions imposed by other nations.
He accused the West of turning a blind eye to attacks by opposition militants and supplies of weapons to the Syrian opposition from abroad and warned that Russia will block any attempt by the West to secure United Nations support for the use of force against Syria.
“If some intend to use force at all cost … we can hardly prevent that from happening,” Lavrov said at a news conference. “But let them do it at their own initiative on their own conscience. They won’t get any authorization from the U.N. Security Council.”
Russia has been a strong ally of Syria since Soviet times when the country was led by the president’s father Hafez Assad. It has supplied Syria with aircraft, missiles, tanks and other modern weapons.
The Yak-130 is a twin-engined combat trainer jet that can also be used to attack ground targets. The Russian air force has recently placed an order for 55 such jets.
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Comments (63)
Diego Roswell
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:23pmWe can expect the same with regards to Iran and Russia. To think otherwise is ignorant.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:59pmDitto China… Korea and Vietnam.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:51pmSounds good to me…more target practice for the IDF and our pilots.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:55amWe should have nuked them during the cold war. Putin is the leopard that never changed its spots.
Report Post »Barack_Must_Go
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:37amOh no, Obama hasn’t made the world a more dangerous place for America……..my ass !
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:29amThe YAK130 is crap they crash a lot and they are not a threat to any country unless that country has no air force. This move by the Russians is just a show of support all be it a weak one, the Russians are not in a position to escalate things militarily they can’t even supply themselves with suitable aircraft. This is just political bluster probably for their own citizens since they still think their aircraft are the best in the world at least they say that publicly but watch them avoid their own commercial aircraft when ever possible.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:45amThe Yak-130 is just an advanced training aircraft…The Israeli Air Force will love the target practice.
Report Post »UDOUDI
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:04amYAK-130 IS trainer/light attack aircraft. As usual, Syrian air elements are going up against the best of the best in an Israel pilot. Splash 36 Yak-130″s. Russia is not doing any favor for Syria. Iran is still flying Vietnam era F-4 Phantom II’s.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:06pmAs a resident of Northern Israel, that is a relief.
Report Post »fldammy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:54pmIt might be a OK high performance trainer, I just don’t see it as significant ground attack aircraft. Syria needs CAS helicopters to take out the Muslim Brotherhood sponsored rebels, not trainers.
Report Post »Worryaboutyourself
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:00amUUHHH, I dont know whythe hubbub about the YAK 130. Its hardly a formidable weapon against ground targets, and zero lethality against airborn targets. The who said it could be a flying coffin was most accurate. It reminds me of the T-33 trainers I used to watch when I was in the Air Force, interesting, but not much. The people who do have to worry are the Syrian citizens, these will most likey be used against them.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:56amAnd we don’t do the same ??
What are we..the World Police force. ?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:03amhttp://tarpley.net/2011/04/11/wrap-the-world-in-flames-the-us-russian-alliance-that-saved-the-union/
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:55am“Russia has been a strong ally of Syria since Soviet times when the country was led by the president’s father Hafez Assad. It has supplied Syria with aircraft, missiles, tanks and other modern weapons.”
They left out a few words.
“so they could exterminate the Jews”.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:05amRussia was our ally as well…during the American Civil War. We would be a Confederacy if they didn’t threaten the Europeans not to intervene.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:08pmIt was also the ally of the US during WWII, and of Israel in the very early days. Which is why I want the US involved in the world. Only the US has SOME morality in its foreign policy. Unlike Russia, China, France…
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:10pmI should point out that the US spoke out against Russian pogroms under the Tzar.
Report Post »common cents
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:47amIf the US arms Saddam, Israel, the Taliban, and so many others throughout our time meddling in world affairs, who are we to criticize?
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:52amSaddam’s arms were not from the US. The Taliban did not exist at the time we help afganistan.
You would arm hitler. So would Paul. Ask him.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:19amHas anyone noticed that, whenever a country flying Russian fighters starts a war, their fighters never seem to get off a shot before crashing to earth? Why is that?
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:56amYou have that right. Only the press would make something else out of it.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:39pmIn 1967, some of them never even got off the ground before crashing to the ground. lol
Report Post »Evil_Conservative
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:21amHey Blaze!
Where the heck is your story on the US/British/French fleet crossing the straight or hormuz in defiance of Iran?! And Iran does nothing! This IS news.
Report Post »SpaceRaider
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:46amThey’d put that up a while back. Although, events have been rapidly moving along since then.
Report Post »Evil_Conservative
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:15amSince when has Russia backing our enemies been news? not much we can do about it. Other than supply our allies with better weapons than our enemies are getting.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:02amRussia (Tsar Nicholas II) was our ally in the American Civil War…The Europeans had threatened to interject themselves into our civil war on behalf of the Confederacy, but Tsar Nick II threatened them that it would be an act of war against Russia for the Europeans to intervene. So what did the Europeans do?
Well, when Abraham Lincoln needed a loan to pay the troops to fund the war, the Europeans refused to give him a loan for anything less than 26 – 36% interest. That’s why Lincoln printed the Greenbacks!
Of course, they murdered the last REAL Tsar (Nick II) and his entire family! This was the most heinous act since the murder of Jesus Christ. They were devout Christians.
Now, Russia is acting as an ally of the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. How? Because they‘re doing the same thing they did in the civil war but on behalf of other countries that’re being invaded and attacked by our CORRUPT GOVERNMENT which is NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
We the People are barely able to stand up to this corrupt warmongering government, and other nations around the world are watching America…the bastion of Freedom… being usurped by banking interest who has comandeered our military and police forces to treat the American people as enemies with the NDAA and other TREASONOUS ACTS BY THE PRESIDENT THE CONGRESS, SENATE, AND JUDICIAL!
The people of the world MARVEL at the Police State AMERICA HAS BECOME!
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:11pm@V-MAN Everything you have posted is the truth. Unfortunately the sheeple have been brainwashed for too long. They refuse to leave the herd as it is being led to the slaughter. One day the music will stop and they will realize what has happened as the gas is being pumped into the room.
Report Post »classicalgas
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:14amLooks like we are going to have to bit*ch slap Russis again.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:50amRussia is stupid, they think because they do this they won’t a target of Islam, fools.
Report Post »The Eleventh Doctor
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:29amRussia has picked its ally. Too bad for them….
Report Post »little big man
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:39amWhat a piece of junk. would never last against our air force.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:28amEven under Obummer, we are STILL fighting a war with Russia!
Oh, Bummer.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:23amToo bad we can‘t say that we haven’t sold weapons to bad guys, but the Soviets in Afghanistan a few decades ago would remind us that we have. The Iraquis will remind us that Saddam was our guy, and the Iranians will remind us of how brutal the Shaw (who we installed) was.
When it comes to military hardware, anyone will sell anything to anybody. The super-powers have divided up the world of nations, and those nations are the spoils of the superpowers. We fight artificial wars on their lands just to make the military industrial complex richer.
There is a war going on, and it is about oil. The war is being fought on the economic front, with each superpower axis trying to make the other economically weak in order to get cheaper oil on the free world market.
Russia is not selling jets to Syria, Russia is selling jets to the coming new Syrian regime. It is up to America to decide this is a bad thing and engage in yet another fight in the middle east. If we stay out of it, eventually, the Syrian people will rise up and throw off their enslavers.
For us to even talk about it is like having the monthly meeting of death row inmates who’s cause it is to stop violence, especially death row execution violence.
LOL!
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:53amSaddam was never “our guy”.
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:12amRussia having nukes is more of a threat than Iran wanting nukes. Russia also has threatened us with their nukes on many occasions. There is also intelligence word that they have thousands of nukes pointed at us right now!!!
Lets make war against Russia first – to stop them from making war against us.
Report Post »Then we can make war with Iran, to keep them from making war with us.
SgtB
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:28amI sincerely hope that is sarcasm and just a way to get people to realize the ignorance of wanting to go to war with Iran for NO REASON. If you really want to go to war with Russia on the other hand, then just go do it on your own and don’t expect the people in uniform to back up that ignorant plan of yours.
Report Post »ZeldaZick
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:33pmSadly, I think if you wait a few weeks you just might get your wish.
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:15pmThe difference between the Russians and the Radical Muslims are as follows. The Russian respect life and are in no hurry to die. Hence the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) theory worked. The Radical Muslims cherish death more then life. Hence they don’t care if they die and kill everyone with them. So do you really think allowing any Radical Muslim Leadership to get their hands on a Nuke is a good idea.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:55amCommies… are AntiFreedom, AntiCapitalism, AntiAmerican… even in the WH!
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:34amCommies are the ultimate control freaks. Socialism leads to Marxism which leads to communism. None of it ever works out well. This is where the commie in chief and his puppet master are leading us to. The fundamental transformation of America and then on to the new world order.
Report Post »Amos37
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:47amProphecy coming to pass, hope everyone is paying attention.
Report Post »Evil_Conservative
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:16amit will be a GLORIOUS battle! (Klingon Accent)
Report Post »P-Daddy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:45amJust how much U.S. aid is going to Syria? How much is being used to purchase these weapons?
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:34amit doesnt mean those idiots know how to fly them though..
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:10amAnd here we go…
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:29am“Damascus shall be a smoldering heap”,here we go indeed,mate!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:03am.
Report Post »The Yak-130 is a twin-engined combat trainer jet that can also be used as a “Flying Coffin!”…..
DagneyT
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:58amNo country sees America as a deterrent, so long as zero is in office, so who is surprised at this?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:15am100% correct
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:27amDeterrent to… what?
You think we’ve been a deterrent? With all our military might and posturing, North Korea now has nukes and hates us. Iran will soon get nukes, and hate us. Russia will sell weapons to anyone, and so will we.
How is this deterring anything at all?
We desperately need a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT approach.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:10am@THEPOSTMAN
Report Post »Our species is Preditoral! If you lay down… someome will stomp on you!
RichNGadsden
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:38amDAGNEYT, That Zero description is so dead on. I go ahead and spell his name out, but I always use the Zero for the first letter in his name – 0bama. A zero is exactly what he is.
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