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11 maart 2012 13:41 |
Klare taal van de Russen, hun beste schepen naar Tartus te sturen, blijkbaar een beslissing die al enkele maanden eerder genomen is.
Maar site Tartus wordt ook serieus uitgebreid.
Russische bron:
Citaat:
Russia sends aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" to Syria
Saturday, 03 December 2011 14:36
The representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced, that on December 6, 2011 from the naval base of Russia, located in Severomorsk, Murmansk region, Russia to the shores of Syria will be sent to a large group of military ships, which will be lead of heavy aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov " with the large anti-submarine ship" Admiral Chabanenko ". A group of Russian Navy surface ships to the shores of Syria will be accompanied by a few nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy. On the board of the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" will be located eight Su-33, Su-25UTG, as well as anti-submarine helicopters, a total of 20 pieces. Large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Chabanenko", built on a new project 11 551, is one of the best ships in the Russian Navy. Group of the Russian Navy will reach the shores of Syria at the end of December 2011, and nearly a month the ships will be located in the naval base in the Syrian city of Tartus, where the Russian air force will make training flights.
We note, that recently the U.S. and Western Europe media reported about entering only a one Russian ship in the Syrian port, but on the December 6, 2011, for the first time, to the shores of Syria the Russia sent a such powerful group of naval ships.
http://hainanwel.com/en/top-news/126...-to-syria.html
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~ half januari zou de die vloot Tartus verlaten hebben... na een 3-daags (logistiek) bezoek. Maar daar zal wslk ook ... geleverd worden.
Citaat:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20120110/170695026.html
MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
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“The naval task force has completed its visit to the Syrian port of Tartus with the aim of replenishing [food and water] provisions. The warships left the Syrian territorial waters on Tuesday afternoon and continued on their route in accordance with their schedule,” the statement said.
Syria’s SANA news agency reported earlier that it viewed the visit of the Russian warships as a sign of solidarity with Syria saying that the country “highly respects Russia’s honorable stance in support of the Syrian people.”
The Russian Defense Ministry repeatedly stated that the purpose of the visit at the Syrian port was to replenish water and food supplies during the naval task force’s long-term training mission in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Russia maintains a Soviet-era naval maintenance site near Tartus and it is the country’s only military foothold in the Mediterranean. Moscow is planning to modernize the facility to accommodate large warships, including missile cruisers and even aircraft carriers after 2012.
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Ze kennen in elk geval de weg. Die site van Tartus zal * verder gemoderniseerd worden tot veel grotere ´militaire capaciteiten´.
En andere (militaire) havens zullen volgen.
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Citaat:
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russ...Syria_999.html
Russia eyes Med naval base in Syria
by Staff Writers
Damascus, Syria (UPI) Jul 21, 2009
The Russian navy is reported to be moving ahead with plans to upgrade its Soviet-era naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus in the eastern mediterranean.
Ria Novosti Monday quoted a senior Russian navy source as saying that "following modernization, the naval maintenance site at Tartus will become fully operational."
The source said the base, established during the Cold War but little used since, would support Russia's anti-piracy operations off Somalia.
However, Moscow will be able to use it, and possibly a separate facility at Latakia, Syria's other main port, to reassert its influence in the Mediterranean and the Arab world.
Moscow has also been seeking to establish naval bases in Libya, at the western end of the Mediterranean, and in Yemen on the Red Sea.
This is causing some consternation in the region. Israel in particular is showing signs of alarm at the prospect of Russian military and intelligence support for Syria, possibly including the deployment of advanced air-defense systems around Tartus and Latakia on its doorstep.
If the Russians complete the upgrade of the Tartus facility, Russia's only foothold in the Mediterranean, it would mark the first military presence Moscow has established outside the borders of the former Soviet Union since it collapsed in 1991.
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