it's apparent Russia turned off their S400 systems how so? it dint stop the Israeli strike
No biggie unless you are on the receiving end.
It takes a Marie Harf class of stupid to look at this incident and decide the important consideration is the price of the ordnance.
So what was accomplished other than angering a not insignificant portion of DJTs base?
Just burning through the stocks of Tomahawks to justify expense of a new missile system or more JASSMs (first use & delivered by B-1b).
It is if you’re a cruise missile vendor.
...Or target!
Did the Rooskies turn off their system....or did we? Or someone else a little south of Syria?
There are piles of aging, obsolete cruise missiles.
You can put acquisition costs on them, but they certainly aren’t worth that anymore.
The best way to use up old munitions is in near-war conditions target practice.
Like this exercise was.
Note that the WWII torpedo scandal (US torpedos turned out to be worthless in 1941-42) was because of insufficient realistic testing pre-war.
Another $100M pissed away.
it's apparent Russia turned off their S400 systems how so? it dint stop the Israeli strike
U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, the Director of the Joint Staff, said the Syrians had been unable to have any “material interference” in the operation and all the missiles reached their targets.
The operation “significantly crippled” Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities and despite reports of evacuations of some production equipment and other materiel, some fixtures were likely too large to move to another, safe location.
76 missiles struck the Barzah Research Center in Damascus, including 57 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) and 19 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) air-launched cruise missiles.
22 missiles impacted the chemical weapon storage facility west of Homs, including nine TLAMs - all from U.S. ships - eight Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles from UK aircraft, three Missile de Croisière Naval (MdCN) cruise missiles from French frigates, and two SCALP air-launched cruise missiles from French aircraft.
Seven French SCALP missiles hit the associated bunker complex near the second target.
The Laboon and Monterey engaged targets from the Red Sea, Higgins fired missiles from the North Arabian Gulf, and John Warner was in the Mediterranean Sea.
In total, Monterey launched 30 TLAMs, Higgins launched 23, Laboon launched seven, and John Warner launched six.
The French Aquitaine-class frigate Languedoc also took part in the operation from the Mediterranean.
Air assets operated from bases throughout the region included US Air Force B-1B bombers, which fired all 19 JASSM-ER missiles, escorted by Air Force fighter jets. (snip)
Lieutenant General McKenzie said the Syrians attempted to shoot down incoming missiles with 40 surface-to-air missiles using a "ballistic trajectory" and "without guidance."(snip)
The U.S. government also noted that there had been a noted uptick in Russian-enabled disinformation regarding the situation in Syria in the aftermath of the strikes.
At no time have we ever won a war with so so few cruise missiles.
Depends on what they actually hit.
If you lose your life or a loved one (or even your property) that is a completely different story.
The continued demonization of Assad and Russia is hugely worrisome. Wake up.
Let’s set the wayback machine to 1880. Back then Britain had the largest, most powerful navy in the world. No nation - including the United States - could match the Royal Navy.
And it can be argued that the US government had mistreated American Indians, at least once or twice.
It sure would be a major event in the United States if Britain had decided to shell a few US ports, as punishment for mistreating the Indians.
(No, I’m not equating America’s Indian policy with the recent chemical attacks. But what is no big deal for one nation is often a very big deal for other nations. And sometimes the lessons learned are not the ones you were hoping to teach.)
They didn't know about the biological weapons stored next to the chemical weapons.
Soon the civil war was a forgotten afterthought...
Alex Jones went nuts;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wug9BhSshFU
Cernovich was blabbing WW3, we were going to have to restart the draft, we were killing civilians, ISIS was attacking Christians.
Completely unhinged.
Syrian air defense shot down a good number of our Tomahawks. The video is there.
So very proud of our President & the U.S. military for the AWESOME job they did in Syria. They crippled Assad’s ability to create chemical weapons, and they did so without casualties & chaos. The international community cannot sit back and allow chemical weapons to spread the world!
How much is one American serviceman’s life worth?
