{"id":16660,"date":"2016-06-23T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16660"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:30:49","slug":"modern-war-incendiary-munitions-appearing-on-russian-jets-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/modern-war-incendiary-munitions-appearing-on-russian-jets-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern War: Incendiary Munitions Appearing On Russian Jets In Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RAW: Russian defense minister meets Assad, inspects Khmeimim airbase in Syria\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNbIRD8Cq48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week analysts found that\u00a0RT, a government-funded Russian media company, edited\u00a0out footage that initially showed Russian jets in Syria armed with incendiary munitions. The original clip\u00a0was restored after RT\u00a0said it had\u00a0deleted\u00a0the footage out of concerns for the pilot\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>The use of incendiary weapons in Syria is nothing new \u2014 they\u2019ve been dropped\u00a0by Syrian government forces, albeit\u00a0intermittently, since 2012. However, the munitions\u2019\u00a0recent appearance, namely a pair of RBK-500 ZAB-2.5SM bombs strapped to the bottom of a Russian Su-34,\u00a0comes among increasing reports of their\u00a0use, namely around\u00a0the besieged city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/06\/18\/images-suggest-that-russia-cluster-bombed-u-s-backed-syrian-fighters\/\">Images suggest that Russia cluster-bombed U.S.-backed Syrian fighters<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Russia is party to a United Nations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unog.ch\/80256EDD006B8954\/(httpAssets)\/B409BC0DCFA0171CC12571DE005BC1DD\/$file\/PROTOCOL+III.pdf\">protocol<\/a>\u00a0that bans the use of air-dropped incendiary munitions onto areas that have concentrations of civilians; the Syrian government, however, is not.<\/p>\n<p>According to N.R. Jenzen-Jones, director of the company\u00a0Armament Research Services, the last time incendiary munitions were used in large concentrations, of the likes seen since the beginning of June, was in early\u00a02013, indicating that the Syrian government has either been resupplied or is relying on the Russians to drop their own. Incendiary bombs, however, are somewhat trivial compared to the casualties caused by\u00a0other weapons used in the conflict such as barrel bombs, improvised explosive devices and rifle fire.<\/p>\n<p>Recent clips posted to YouTube show a number of strikes in the suburbs of Aleppo, where Syrian government forces have fought for months in an attempt to take\u00a0the city from opposition forces. The footage, taken mostly at night, shows streaks of what looks like fireworks blossoming downward and erupting into flames on the ground. According to Mary Wareham, the arms advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, the type of incendiary munitions seen most frequently in Syria appear to be thermite-based weapons, and are often misidentified\u00a0as napalm and white phosphorus. Similar in purpose, napalm and white phosphorus have checkered pasts that began with their use by the United States during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/06\/23\/after-appearing-on-russian-jets-incendiary-munitions-make-a-resurgence-in-syria\/?wpisrc=nl_check&amp;wpmm=1\">Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week analysts found that\u00a0RT, a government-funded Russian media company, edited\u00a0out footage that initially showed Russian jets in Syria armed with incendiary munitions. The original clip\u00a0was restored after RT\u00a0said it had\u00a0deleted\u00a0the footage out of concerns for the pilot\u2019s safety. The use of incendiary weapons in Syria is nothing new \u2014 they\u2019ve been dropped\u00a0by Syrian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8454,6182,2426,5582,1898],"tags":[12447,10431,3766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}