Posted on 04/15/2018 2:57:42 PM PDT by Simon Green
...The attack involved ships, aircraft and one submarine operating from the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Northern Arabian Sea against three targets -- one on the outskirts of Damascus and two others 90 miles to the north.
A total of 76 missiles -- 59 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMS) and 19 Joint Air to Surface Stand-Off Missiles-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) were fired at the sprawling Barzah Research and Development Center near Damascus, Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the Joint Staff Director, said at a Pentagon briefing.
At the same precise time, the Hims-Shinsar chemical weapons storage facility near Homs, about 90 miles north of Damascus, was hit with a total of 22 weapons -- nine Tomahawks, eight British Storm Shadow missiles, three French Naval Cruise Missiles and two French SCALP land attack cruise missiles, McKenzie said.
The third target, the Hims--Shinsar chemical weapons bunker facility also near Homs, was hit with seven French SCALP missiles, McKenzie said.
In the Red Sea, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser Monterey fired 30 Tomahawks and the Arleigh
Burke-class destroyer Laboon fired seven TLAMs.
In the North Arabian Sea, the Arleigh Burke- class destroyer Higgins fired 23 TLAMS, McKenzie said.
In the eastern Mediterranean, the French frigate Languedoc fired three naval versions of the SCALP missile and the Virginia-class submarine John Warner fired six TLAMs.
In the air, two B-1B Lancer Bombers fired 19 JASSMs. Britain flew a combination of Tornado and Typhoon fighters to launch eight Storm Shadow missiles. France flew a combination of Rafale and Mirage fighters to launch a total of nine SCALP missiles.
The strike represented the the first employment of JASSM-ER weapons in combat.
...The JASSM-Extended Range has a higher survivability rate due to it its low-observable technology incorporated into the long-range, conventional air-to-ground precision-guided missile.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Are you part of the welcoming committee or just acting like an ass?
What if I walked into YOUR house, then 15 minutes later started telling people to GO AWAY..?
I see the problem now, you have no clue what you are saying or doing. It’s ok, I’ll be nice to you, maybe you got bullied growing up. Whatever.
So...We hit chemical weapons and facilities...Why were there no releases?
If we DID hit these targets,,,wouldn’t there be collateral deaths?
Nobody knows but the perpetrators. I suspect you are right.
But Israel and the entire world will sleep better tonight because one of the largest chemical weapons facilities and storage depots of WMD materials in the world is no longer there,
Perhaps it was just an excuse, perhaps not, but the bottom line is that it is finally gone.
Get over your bitterness and smell the Sarin free rosesm
Bullshirt, the site of the attack was not bombed. Civilians done hang out in top security chemical weapons factories and weapon storage facilities.
I think your hatred has made you beyond reason.
You throw around the hate label like a college Antifa thug.
The only thing I hate is killing anyone without clear absolute moral necessity.
Are you completely sure that the USA, it’s citizens and our president have determined we have a clear absolute moral necessity to have our military engage and use deadly force there and else where in the ME?
How’ve our costly adventures there turned out since 2003?
Seems like kicking a scorpion’s nest has resulted in lots of killed US soldiers, Trillion+ wasted, and never ending pissed natives.
“Avoid foreign entanglements” - Thomas Jefferson.
But I guess that way of thinking must be beyond reasoning with you so what you don’t understand, you label as hate.
Funny thing about not fighting evil, it will not stop being evil.
Islam is evil.
Chemical and biological weapons are evil.
Destroying Chemical and biological weapons research facilities and depots in the hands of death cultists is a clearly a win win situation.
As to your hatred, your writings reek of it so bad I can smell it upwind.
Now that you pulled your head out, you might as well shove it back up there - having it out don’t make you no smarter....
You are such a smart articulate man.
Assad and supporters are christian.
We / you are supporting Islamic rebels set on overthrowing Assad, a man elected by his people.
The alleged chemical weapon attack was not investigated by independent body to determine facts - they were schedule to start Saturday, the day before the $200 Million dollar Friday missile attack.
We’ve again attacked a sovereign country that did not engage in aggression toward us. US Congress or world Security Council were denied review and vote to engage in military attack as law requires.
You do know that China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, NK and other adversaries will likely use the precedent we’ve repeatedly set to launch unilateral aggression on sovereign nations they disagree with, right?
China has sights on Tawain, and other South China Sea nations.
But I guess facts and reason you don’t understand is hate talk.
Good bye.
Assad is Christian? When did that happen? Last report I heard he was an Alawite.
Syria and Russia blocked access to the site so that it could not be inspected.
And Assad is a king, like his daddy before him. I am sue all the people elect him or his family every time, or at least those who desire to see their next birthday. That is why 99.7% of votes were for him. Obviously the civil war is a ruse if everyone votes FOR him...
I understand quite clearly, I have refuted all three of your misunderstandings, but still it’s the evil people who blew up the chemical weapons stockpile that should have just ignored it all so it would go away.
The hate is yours, attacking the western world for stopping a death cultist from using Weapons of Mass Destruction on civilians in accordance with international law.
It’s never the rapist or the murderer with you people, it’s the mean old cop arresting them.
You are sick...
Where do you get this stuff?!
Clueless. Sad.
Appears to be a DU troll.
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