Сложная международная обстановка вынуждает Россию strengthen the facilities of the Armed Forces outside our country. The location of military facilities on the territory of other countries is regulated by international law. So, the Russian base in Syria is located there on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement.
Actually it is not a base, but a point.logistics, having a serial number 720. That is, it is an ordinary technical point, created according to a single sample. Information relating to the total number of such points in Russia, refer to the section of military secrets, only the top military leaders are aware of this. From open sources it is only known that many of these items are in a dilapidated state.
На сегодня известный всему миру 720 ПМТО – Russian sea base in Syria (Tartus) - consists of three small warehouses, a dry dock, parking for cars, two pontoon bridges, a wide concrete pier, a mooring pier, three harbors for civilian ships, one railway track and a solid protective wall.
The device, location and size of a military facility is perfectly visible from the satellites of all interested countries.
Начало официального сотрудничества Сирии и России (then the USSR) refers to the 50s of the last century. Negotiations on the need for Soviet troops to be in Syria were held at that time between Nikita Khrushchev and Shukri Al-Qatli, then Syrian President.
In practice, it took more than 20 years for the first Russian base in Syria to open. It happened in Syrian Tartus in 1971 under Hafez Asad, the father of the current president.
It must be recalled that the year 1971 is the time of the height.cold war. A logistics center was needed to service the 5th Mediterranean squadron of ships of the USSR Navy. At that time, the 6th Fleet of the US Navy was considered the enemy of this brigade.
Soviet ships came to this point for repair and refueling, as well as to replenish stocks of food, fresh water and equipment.
The standoff during the Cold War between the USSRand the USA was serious. The Mediterranean after the Second World War was completely controlled by the USA, Great Britain, and since about 1950 - by NATO forces. Even then, the United States considered it vital for itself to fully weaken the influence of the USSR, creating a nuclear threat for it.
For this, the 6th American fleet was armed with carriers of nuclear weapons, the blow of which hit the entire south-west of the USSR, this is practically the whole of Ukraine.
In the 1960s, the USSR managed to build ballistic missile submarines, which allowed our country to survive.
Создание 5-й эскадры должно было стать ответной a threat to the United States so that the opposing side should be balanced with their decisions. The “muscle game” and the adequate response to the constant US and NATO aggression enabled several generations of Soviet people to live in peace and security. Admirals Gorshkov and Kasatonov, who saw the real existence of the USSR more clearly than others, made a huge contribution to the creation of the squadron.
The Russian base in Syria arose solely as a response to international aggression. A simple analysis of the sequence of events reveals a causal relationship.
In the 90s the squadron collapsed, like everything else then.Until 2007, the PBT barely “breathed”, serving the Russian ships that occasionally entered the Mediterranean Sea. The staff of the point at that time was ... as many as 4 soldiers.
Since 2010, the Russian base in Syria was subject tomodernization, in order to be able to serve there aircraft carriers and cruisers, which appeared in service with the Russian Navy. It was also planned that ships carrying combat duty to protect civilian ships from Somali pirates would be served here.
However, these plans did not come true,since the civil war began in Syria. Only civilians remained to serve the E & P. The military was withdrawn to avoid possible provocations and adverse international resonance.
In March last year, the Syrian governmentappealed to Russia with a request to expand its military presence. However, the creation of a full-fledged military base in Syria was denied so as not to provoke an intensification of international conflict.
But PTMO was modernized, cleared and deepenedfairway, upgraded infrastructure, installed means of protection, brought the number of staff to 1,700 people. There are military personnel and civilian personnel in Tartus.
Tartus is not the only location of the Russian military in Syria, there is also an air base in Latakia. The story of its creation is completely different.
Начало работы – 30 сентября 2015 года, именно this day is the order of the Supreme Commander. The base was created after the appeal of the current President of Syria, Bashar Assad, with a request for help in the war with ISIS.
Previously, Russian bases in Syria did not have suchrepresentative offices, limited to the presence of a limited group of military specialists, namely, academy teachers in Damascus, translators and military personnel of other specialties.
The Russian base in Syria (Lattakia) was established on the material base of Hmeymim International Airport.
This database was created literally on level ground indesert of Russian components. Everything necessary was delivered to Latakia by air: containers, air conditioners, window blocks, shower cabins, equipment for catering, beds and tables, soft equipment and utensils.
For our military created excellent householdconditions drastically different from the stationary barracks. The issuance of hot food, repair and refueling aircraft are carried out around the clock. The journalists who gained access to the Russian bases in Syria, for the most part, are shocked by the speed and quality of work, as well as the intensity of combat sorties.
According to various sources, the shelling of Hmeimimoccurred on November 26, 2015. It is reported that several shots were made from ACS. Official data on victims in the public domain are not available.
Этот обстрел российской базы в Сирии, а также the destruction of the Russian aircraft in the skies over Turkey led to the fact that now our military personnel are protected not only by standard air defense systems, but also by the latest Russian development of the S-400 Triumph. The speaking name is justified: the newest anti-aircraft missile system destroys absolutely all means of air and space attack within reach, which is 600 kilometers.
Even to someone who has nothing to do with internationalpolicy does not have, just look at the map. After that, it is advisable to get acquainted with the list of natural resources of this region, as well as the clash of interests of all the countries located here.
It becomes obvious that if you let the situationOn its own, then on the horizon looms a big war with the inevitable involvement of Russia in it. The Russian military bases in Syria are a real shield of our relatively peaceful life, the hope for a fair world order.
Sometimes in order to understand the motives for the actions of a country, it is enough to get acquainted with its history.
From the school course, we remember that Columbus discovered America. But who is the "rules of the ball"?
The natives of America - the Indians - lived quietly onthe continent, until in the 17th century, migrants from the Old World arrived there. There were people who did not find a decent place to live in their countries. They were landless peasants with no professions. There were also sent criminals, not wanting to spend money on their content.
Местные жители встретили приезжих с открытой soul. They taught them to hunt and fish, to cultivate the forest, to look for edible plants, and generally helped to survive. But a person who does not have a moral core cannot be changed by anything.
The migrants took full advantage of the naivety andthe purity of the indigenous population. They bought furs, lands, gold for cheap rum and brilliant rubbish, and eventually they drove the Indians from their ancestral lands, leaving them one opportunity to be slaves. So, the central part of New York is on the ground, which was bought from the Aborigines for $ 24 - a set of beads and knives cost so much, this was the price of "fair exchange".
From the 17th century to the present day, nothing is fundamentallydid not change, except that the scale of the scam. Nowadays, it becomes incredibly embarrassing to what nonsense and deceitful promises "was bought" just a few years ago, our society. We are also perceived from overseas as naive Aborigines, who need to be “grateful” in their own way.
The auxiliary airfields of Shairat in Homs and Al-Tayas in Palmyra are being used now. It is in Shairat that it is planned to create another base: there is an excellent strip and as many as 45 hangars.
There is also indirect evidence that the next base may appear in Kamyshly, it is a joint-based airport.
