The more advanced, anti-TOW T-90 A tanks have been recently deployed to the battlegrounds in Eastern Homs to serve as a game-changing weapon against the ISIS jihadists.

Occasionally dubbed T-90 Vladimir, the tank has a welded turret, V-92S2 engine and ESSA thermal viewer.

Fierce battles are currently being fought by the Syrian Armed Forces, backed by paramilitary fighters and Russian airstrikes, against ISIS jihadists who control parts of the strategic Shaer gas field.

The two warring parties have been trading blows since the terror group launched a surprise attack on the gas-rich area on May 2nd.

The radical group also attempted to attack the Tiyas (T4) airbase and managed to capture the abandoned battalion. The offensive was soon repelled and the battalion was recaptured.