[McGruff]

...About 60 U.S. Tomahawk missiles hit the Shayrat air base, southeast of Homs, a small installation with two runways,...

Couldn’t a B-52 with a load of dumb bombs do this.

[Enchante]

It would be foolish to risk US aircrews when we don’t need to do so. Syria does have fighter aircraft and SAM batteries. A B-52 would be a sitting duck.

[redcatcherb412]

An sa300 would be able to take out the b52 easily, terrain following NOE cruise missiles, not so much.

[NormsRevenge]

It might take a couple runs.. but , Yeah.. a few 117s could do a mess of a job too.. we may need the practice and soon.. plus we got to dump a few older Tomahawks.. so if ya hear of a goatherder that got a herd blow’d up by accident, well..

[Bogie]

May not have been too much damage either. Go to Syria, and plug in the air base on Google Earth. Everything seems to be dug in.

Seems like a direct hit would be needed.

[P-Marlowe]

Couldn’t a B-52 with a load of dumb bombs do this.

The company that manufactures tomahawk missiles would have lost a Yuge replacement contract.

[Bryanw92]

>>Couldn’t a B-52 with a load of dumb bombs do this.

Yes, if you want to have to suppress the Russian air defenses. (Hint: suppress means blow up).

[TheStickman]

“Couldn’t a B-52 with a load of dumb bombs do this.”

Planes can be shot down. Missiles, not so much.

[bert]

The US Navy had the vessels with the Tomahawks on site in the Med.

The mission intent was to send a message and disrupt the capability of the air field