Guess they were too damned busy retasking birds to spy on Home Grown Terrorists...
You know, like all of us here...
Bad Conservatives, bad bad...
Children, they need more than just a time out...
Did they violate the airspace of other countries?
OK, so the Rooskies can launch their version of Tomahawk from small ships.
I’ll bite. Why does the US need large ships? It isn’t the physics of launching the missile.
Maybe because the command and control infrastructure for the Tomahawk needs it, and Russia has offloaded that capability to other ships, and/or ground based stations, we aren’t seeing. Which has its own mix of virtues and drawbacks.
Are these the awesome missiles, some of which landed in Iraq instead of Syria? Good shootin tex!
The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.
“This was another demonstration of Russian weakness”, said our Community Organizer in Chief. “Did they destroy any hospitals? Our missiles can destroy hospitals.”
Let’s see China’s toys now.
Lay all the Bravodo behind. They’re gaining and we’re losing.
‘Even close watchers of the Russian military were surprised to see them.’
Especially those ISIS clowns, I’ll wager.
The last thing they ever saw.
Article neglects that they can be 200kt+ loaded.
Sorry, but our LGBTs can take out ANY cruise missile battery that the Russians can throw at us.
SERIOUSLY - what do YOU IDIOTS think the Russians have been doing with their oil wealth and open access to Western Technology for the past 20 years, designing video games? Just because we GUTTED OUR MILITARY does not mean the rest of the world did nothing.
YOU IDIOTS calling for war with Russia over Ukraine (and here now), BETTER UNDERSTAND that this is not the only surprise they have in store for us, there will be PLENTY MORE if we decide it’s time for WW3.
No doubt it’s the same with China. So how about a compromise, WE BUILD UP OUR MILITARY before running around the world trying to start WW3 - at least we’ll have a chance then.
Your attention to this thread, please.
Also note that we’re almost out of Tomahawks and we don’t have more coming in the production pipeline for a few years. The Russians don’t have this problem.
Putin’s foray into Syria is or should be taken as a sales presentation
he is putting his wares on display for all the tinpot’s wanting weapons to salivate over.