RT EXCLUSIVE: Mi-24 gunships guarding Russia's hub of anti-ISIS ops in Syria

RT's Murad Gazdiev watches Mil Mi-24 helicopters patrolling the Russian air base in Latakia preventing possible militant raids. Bomber jets are at their most vulnerable during takeoff and landing when portable shoulder-launched missiles can be fired at them. The job of the mighty gunships is to take out any would-be saboteurs approaching.

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