Russian Military Used Syria War to Train Forces and Learn U.S. Combat Moves, Says General

Russian has used the war in Syria to train scores of its servicemen and to pick up valuable glimpses of the United States’ own tricks and tactics on the battlefield, a top Air Force intelligence general said.Moscow launched an aerial campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2015, and though the operation’s targets overlapped with those of the U.S.-led coalition at times, the two have had several tense standoffs. The latest close encounter between U.S. and Russian jets came last month, when a U.S. spy aircraft had to fire flares in a bid to avoid collision with incoming Russian Su-25 fighter jets.

 

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