{"id":382368,"date":"2018-10-25T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-staged-massive-drone-attack-on-russia-base-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:05:52","slug":"presstv-us-staged-massive-drone-attack-on-russia-base-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-staged-massive-drone-attack-on-russia-base-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US staged massive drone attack on Russia base in Syria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia says its Hmeimim air base in Syria \u2013 where it is involved in an anti-terror mission \u2013 once came under attack by over a dozen remotely-piloted American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs.) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colonel General Alexander Fomin made the remarks at the 8th Beijing Xiangshan Forum on security partnership in China on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hemeimim was attacked\u00a013 drones with\u00a0a US Poseidon-8 plane flying over\u00a0the Mediterranean Sea simultaneously, Fomin said, without specifying the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThirteen drones moved according to common combat battle deployment, operated by a single crew. During all this time the American Poseidon-8 reconnaissance plane patrolled the Mediterranean Sea area for eight hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The general also noted that the drones switched to a manual guidance mode and flew at a specific distance from\u00a0Hmeimim when they faced the Russian equipment electronic warfare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen these 13 drones faced our electronic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/25\/578041\/Russia-Syria-Hmeimim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says its Hmeimim air base in Syria \u2013 where it is involved in an anti-terror mission \u2013 once came under attack by over a dozen remotely-piloted American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs.) Colonel General Alexander Fomin made the remarks at the 8th Beijing Xiangshan Forum on security partnership in China on Thursday. Hemeimim was attacked\u00a013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}