How many soldiers did Russia send to Syria?

Syria is Russia's only strategic fulcrum in the Middle East, and the port of Tartus in Syria has always been used by Russia, so Russia has many interests in Syria. Secondly, there is another important factor. The entry of the conservative Islamic State will penetrate more into the Russian Caucasus in the future, posing a great threat to its domestic security. Therefore, Russia is desperate to intervene in Syria.

In order to carry out the operation, Russia has invested in a mixed air force formation in Syria. According to the satellite images, 12 Su -24M front-line bombers and attack aircraft Su -25CM, 6 Su -34 fighter-bombers, 4 Su -30CM fighters and several Mi -24 and Mi -8 helicopters can be identified. 2015165438+1October 17 The Russian Ministry of Defence released the news that 25 long-range aviation planes, 8 Su-34s and 4 Su -24 fighter-bombers entered Syria. Last year, Russian air and space forces completed 6.5438+0.88 million flights, attacked the infrastructure of armed personnel 7.65438+0.00 times, and eliminated 35,000 armed personnel. 725 training camps, 405 factories and workshops producing weapons and ammunition and 65,438+0,500 pieces of military technical equipment of armed personnel were destroyed. Shoigu also said that Russian troops used 162 kinds of modern weapons in Syrian military operations.

The west estimates that the total number of Russian military personnel and civilian national defense workers is about 600. Shortly after the start of the civil war in Syria, Russia sent a number of "military advisers" and "anti-terrorism experts" to Syria. These people are all active servicemen of the elite troops. Each batch is about 100-200 people; "Mercenaries" Mercenaries belonging to Russian private military and security service companies have been fighting in Syria for several years, and the famous "Slavic Army" is there.

The average daily air raid attendance rate of the US Air Force is less than 100, which shows that the Russian Air Force really uses a fighter group tempered in actual combat. According to Colonel Ruchiscott's previous statement, the Russian Air Force can carry out more than 70 air strikes every day, reaching the intensity of air strikes by the US Air Force. It can be considered that the Russian air force and the US air force have the same ability to suppress air strikes. The navy has about 13 multi-type warships; The army is mostly composed of various professional detachments, motorized light equipment infantry/artillery/engineers/special operations commandos, which participate in the war on the organizational scale; And a battalion of the marine corps.

In more than two years of fighting, the Russian army * * sent more than 48,000 soldiers to fight in Syria, using 2 15 weapons, the air force took off 34,000 sorties in combat, and ships and submarines carried out 100 precision strikes against the enemy. Special operations troops have shown high professionalism and combat capability. Russian troops destroyed 8,000 armored targets, 7 18 weapons and ammunition production sites and 396 illegal oil production sites and refineries, and eliminated 603 18 terrorists, including 8 19 illegal armed leaders and 2,840 terrorists born in the Russian Federation.