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L.A. Times: How Russia's military campaign in Syria is helping Moscow market its weapons
Over the last year, Russia’s Defense Ministry has released dozens of videos showing how its bombers and fighter jets hit targets in Syria or supported President Bashar Assad’s ground troops with gunfire and missiles.
Major international networks have played the videos — along with the images of visually stunning, albeit militarily insignificant, launches of cruise missiles from Russian warships and submarines in the Caspian and Mediterranean seas.
A shaky YouTube clip showing how a Russian-made T-90 tank and its Syrian driver survived a shot from a U.S.-made “tank killer,” a tube-launched BGM-71 TOW missile, in Aleppo has 2.8 million views. Other videos feature Russian-made weaponry being used in Syria.
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WNU Editor: Arms exports is the #2 money maker for the Kremlin (after oil and gas) .... so yes .... anything that can help Moscow sell and market its weapons will be taken advantage of.
