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Al-Nusra Dirt Bike Assault on Abu al-Duhur Airbase in 2015
Published 2 years ago
Members of the al-Nusra Front conduct a high-speed dirt-bike assault against a Syrian Arab Army airbase in 2015. The plan does not survive first contact.
This one goes hard and fast, and it fails equally as hard and fast. The video you're watching here was recorded by the al-Nusra Front in 2015 during their blitzkrieg assault against the Abu al-Duhur Airbase. While from this perspective it doesn't look like the battle is going according to plan, these guys on dirt-bikes were only the initial tip of the spear in the larger assault.
Shortly after these guys bail from their dirt bikes, technical vehicles pull up and started suppressing the Syrian Arab Army positions on the airbase. That gives these guys, and the rest of the maneuver element time to get into cover and continue assaulting forward. Ultimately, the airbase falls within hours, and the al-Nusra Front takes control of it, denying the Syrian Arab Army a base of operations to maintain air superiority.
