{"id":63064,"date":"2015-11-30T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=63064"},"modified":"2015-11-30T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:50:26","slug":"russia-arms-su-34s-with-air-to-air-missiles-in-syria-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=63064","title":{"rendered":"Russia arms Su-34s with air-to-air missiles in Syria for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that Russian aircrafts participating in the military operations against terrorist organizations in Syria carried out their first sorties equipped with air-to-air missiles.<\/p>\n<p>RT website quoted Igor Klimov, commander of the Russian Airforce in Syria as saying: &#8220;Russian Su-34 bombers, additionally equipped with air-to-air missiles, have set out their first mission in Syria&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers have made their first sorties equipped not only with high explosive aviation bombs and hollow charge bombs, but also with short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles,&#8221; spokesman for the Russian Air Force added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The planes are equipped with missiles for defensive purposes,&#8221; Klimov said.<\/p>\n<p>The missiles have target-seeking devices and are \u201ccapable of hitting air targets within a 60km radius,\u201d Klimov explained.<\/p>\n<p>Qabas\/ Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that Russian aircrafts participating in the military operations against terrorist organizations in Syria carried out their first sorties equipped with air-to-air missiles. RT website quoted Igor Klimov, commander of the Russian Airforce in Syria as saying: &#8220;Russian Su-34 bombers, additionally equipped with air-to-air missiles, have set out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987],"tags":[7158,8024,8025],"class_list":["post-63064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-su-34","tag-to-air-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}