Russian sub bombs ISIS stronghold from 1,500 miles away in the Med

MOSCOW launched a barrage of cruise missiles to take out oil infrastructure, ammunition depots and a mine-making factory belonging to ISIS.

Calibre cruise missile honing in

The aerial assault took place yesterday and was aimed at the terror group’s de facto capital city of Raqqa in Syria. 

It was also the first time President Vladimir Putin's navy attacked from the Mediterranean Sea, signalling a change in tactics. 

Previously they had only launched from the Caspian Sea which is much further from ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria than the Med.

Oil infrastructure targeted

During a broadcast on state television, Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin: “We used Calibre cruise missiles from the Rostov-on-Don submarine from the Mediterranean Sea.”Cruise missiles are capable of travelling for 1,500 miles at low altitude to hit targets and the Rostov-on-Don sub is considered one of the world’s best for stealth missions.


 
The 4,000 ton vessel is so quiet and hard to detect that NATO has called it a ‘black hole’.
Shoigu also said that the Russian air force had conducted 600 combat sorties and destroyed “300 targets of different kinds” over the past three days.