Syrian war

RUSSIA IS USING SYRIA TO TEST ITS NEXT GENERATION OF WEAPONS

Russia has tested over 600 new weapons and military equipment items on the battlefields of Syria, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov told the Interfaxnews agency Thursday.

Since the official start of airstrikes in Syria in late 2015, Russia’s armed forces have often used an apparently gratuitous range of arms to carry out strikes. Moscow has deployed multiple models of jets from all its major manufacturers, broadcasting operations of seemingly needless complexity—tweeting a video of warships launching a missile strike on western Syria from 930 miles away, in the Caspian Sea, for example.

The manufacturer of Russia’s new soldier armor, Ratnik, said earlier this week the equipment had also been tested in Syria and according to Borisov, the same is true of hundreds of new items in Russia’s arsenal, including airborne weapons, armored vehicles and rocket launcher systems.