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The Russian military’s chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov announced the deployment in mid-December 2019, according to TASS.
"The fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft is being tested,” Gerasimov said. “They were re-tested in Syria, during which all the planned tasks were successfully completed."
But it’s unclear what those tasks might have been. The Su-57’s first deployment to Syria apparently did not involve any actual combat. It’s possible the 2019 deployment didn’t, either.
The two T-50s that took part in the 2018 deployment appeared in Syria along with a Russian air force A-50 radar plane, four Su-25 attack planes and four Su-35s fighters. The warplanes arrived in Syria following weeks of intensive airstrikes by Russian planes targeting areas controlled by anti-regime rebels in Idlib and East Ghouta.
Since the start of the Syrian uprisings against Bashar al-Assad, Russia has supported the Syrian regime politically and with military aid, but in September 2015 Russia has backed Assad through direct military involvement, where it tested its weapons on the Syrian people, committing hundreds of massacres and killing thousands of civilians, as well as forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to fell their houses towards safer places.
Source: National Interest.