05/20/2026
U.S. Gunship STRIKES Russian Convoy — Then THIS Happened…
In February 2018 in eastern Syria, thirty US special operations troops at the Conoco gas plant faced a four-hour assault by five hundred pro-Assad fighters and Wagner Group mercenaries — and the deconfliction line that was supposed to prevent it failed. This Battle of Khasham breakdown reconstructs the tactical engagement minute by minute, from the opening 122mm Russian artillery bombardment through MQ-9 Reaper Hellfire strikes, AH-64E Apache top-attack runs, M142 HIMARS rocket fire, and the AC-130U Spooky gunship orbit that broke the assault.
Inside the breakdown: how a single Combat Controller called in air support across multiple platforms, why F-22 Raptors scrambled when two Russian aircraft launched from Hmeimim Air Base, how an Igla-S MANPADS engagement nearly downed an Apache, and how the AC-130's three side-firing cannons, pylon turn, and 105mm howitzer dismantled the column. The video covers Wagner Group operations in Syria, US Special Forces tactics, modern combined arms doctrine, drone warfare, electronic warfare, deconfliction protocols, and the Syrian Civil War strategic context that made the Khasham gas plant a flashpoint between American and Russian-backed forces. A complete tactical analysis of the night the deconfliction line broke.
