More details

On the US special forces strike in Syria on ISIS.

Making the world a better place

By removing one terrorist at a time.  Glad these guys are on the case.

So many hot spots

It is hard to keep track of them all.  Here it seems that Syrian and Russian a/c are attacking either Turkish units inside Syria or Turkish surrogates with Turkish supplied armor.  Great.  Just frikkin’ great.

Oops

Looks like one of the Syrian SAMs might have gotten a little lost.  Luckily no one got hurt.  I can easily see one of these either hitting an airliner or impacting in a populated area.

USMC F-35s in combat

Looks like the USMC’s F-35s have been used in combat off of one of the LHA “baby carriers”. This is a good demonstration of the value of the B version of the F-35s, allowing lower intensity missions using the small carriers instead of a CVBG.

Own goal

Looks like the Syrians might have some explaining to do to the Russians.

Middle East air combat

Looks like the Israelis just shot down a Syrian warplane.  The article doesn’t say it but I am guessing it was an Su-25.

Russia’s drone AFV

I was unaware that Russia was fielding one of these.  Syria looks more and more like 1936-1939 Spain to me, with Russia using it as an opportunity to test their new weapons in combat.

More Russian casualties in Syria

Story here.

Russians lose another plane in Syria

Story here.  Looks like a bird or FOD ingestion, not combat related, but still expensive.