It is assumed that the air base will be used as a transit airfield on the way to Syria, where Russian military and military transport planes will be refueled. Syrian sources say that we are talking about several fighters and 4 air tankers IL-78.

The base in Noea was already used by the Russian Civil Aviation Committee - in April of this year it was reported that Russian long-distance bombers flying to bombard the positions of militants in Eastern Syria stayed at it.