With a range of only 290 KM, US ships can sit well outside that range and launch Tomahawks with a range of 2500 KM.
What are the targets? Definitely not the chem-weapons depots that could disperse more chemicals once hit. So what? Lob a few cruise missles at Assad and his weapons systems to punish him? That is the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard.
If we ever had a reason to stay out of "foreign entanglements", according to George Washington, this is it. Let them all those shithead Islamist factions fight forever, while it keeps them from targeting western civilization. Think Iraq and Iran war that lastest 10 years as the muzzies killed each other and didn't have the time on their hands to target us.
25 yr. Navy commander wrote:
..”The Navy ships we currently have in the Med surounding Syria, ready to lauch their missiles are no match for the P800 Yahont missiles Syria has to defend itself from any attack.
The P800 missiles are simply too fast with advance radar and guidance systems and our ships have no counter measures to defend themselves from them....They could easily sink our carriers and their escorts without knowing what hit them.
Syria is also armed with the S300 SAM and the more advanced S400 anti-aircraft missiles which could shoot our fighter jets and drones down like shooting fish in a barrel.
Syria is not going to be a walk in the park like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya where we controled the skies.
I wonder how Americans would react if they start seeing some of our ships sunk and our planes dropping from the skies...... A strike against Syria will escalate rapidly to a major war which we will again lose and all for what?”