Russia: Syria air defence intercepted 31 missiles

A senior Russian militia official has said that Syrian air defence had intercepted no much less than 71 cruise missiles fired by US, UK and France forces.

At a news convention in Moscow on Saturday, Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said no much less than 103 cruise missiles, in conjunction with Tomahawks, had been fired into a necessity of targets in Syria.    

« Russia has fully restored the air defence map of Syria, and it continues to toughen it over the final six months, » Rudskoy said.

He moreover confirmed that no much less than one US Navy warship and US B-1 bombers had been fascinated about the operation, as neatly as UK’s Twister fighter.   

The US-led strikes on Saturday come after a suspected chemical weapons attack by the Syrian regime in the light insurrection stronghold of Douma final week. 

An announcement from the Pentagon said that no much less than 58 missiles struck Syria’s Shayrat air imperfect. Reuters quoted a US official as pronouncing that Tomahawk missiles had been light in the strikes. 

The UK’s Royal Air Pressure said four Twister GR4s opponents jets joined in the operation, while France said it has deployed Mirage and Rafale fighter jets. 

French officials said that its militia had fired 12 missiles in Syria intervention.They moreover said that they believed that none of French missiles had been intercepted.

A British pilot assessments the weapons on his Twister jet in Cyprus after its mission in Syria [AP]

Earlier, the residing of industrial of France’s President Emanuel Macron said the country’s air force fired missiles from its Mirage and Rafale fighter jets.

On Friday, the US Navy said it became shifting further Tomahawk missile-armed ship internal striking distance of Syria. 

Tomahawks can elevate as much as 1,000 pounds of warhead at a fluctuate of 900 nautical miles. It is far guided by GPS « enabling highly moral precision attack », according to a 2016 Pentagon file. 

An announcement from the British Ministry of Defence said it has deployed no much less than four Royal Air Pressure Twister GR4s in the strike.

The RAF Twister fighter jets took off from the British air imperfect in Akrotiri, Cyprus. 

The Twister fighter is able to carrying GPS-guided bombs, Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and the 2,860 pounds Storm Shadow cruise missiles, as neatly as self-defence air-to-air missiles. 

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies