In September 2015 , six Su-34s arrived at Latakia airport in Syria , for attacks against rebel and ISIL forces . Russian air attacks in Syria started on the 30 September , in the Homs region . On 1 October , the Su-34 was used to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria . The Russian Air Force Su-34 fighter-bombers destroyed an Islamic State command center and training camp south-west of the city of Raqqa . These included precision strikes from an altitude of over 5,000 m ( 16,400 ft ) . Russian Su-34 and Su-25 attack aircraft carried out air strikes the next day against Islamic State targets in Syria 's Hama province using precision bombs . According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov , Su-34s hit an ISIL fortified bunker in the Hama province with guided bombs . Fortifications , ammunition depots , seven units of the military equipment near Syria 's Maarrat al-Numan were also destroyed by the Russian Air Force . An ISIL command center and underground depot were also destroyed with explosives near Raqqa . Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on 3 October , " Accurate delivery of a concrete-piercing bomb BETAB-500 launched from a Su-34 aircraft near Raqqa destroyed a hardened command centre of one of the illegal armed groups as well as an underground bunker with explosives and ammunition depot . " A Russian Air Force representative stated Su-34s acquire targets using the GLONASS satellite system for bombing . During this time six Su-34s were in Syria maintaining a 70 percent availability rate for sorties . Eight more Su-34s arrived in Syria on 20 November 2015 . Following the shooting down of a Su-24 by Turkey , Russia announced on 30 November 2015 that Su-34s in Syria had begun flying combat missions while armed with air-to-air missiles . On 16 August 2016 , Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 bombers , having taken off from their base in Hamadan Islamic Republic of Iran , carried out group airstrikes against targets belonging to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups in the provinces of Aleppo , Deir ez-Zor and Idlib . On August 17 , 2016 , Russian Su-34 bombers carried out strikes from the Hamadan airfield on the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran against targets of the ISIS terrorist group in the province of Deir ez-Zor . Aircraft carried high-explosive bombs OFAB-500
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2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
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