Those have been just retired.
(and maybe F-22s) before the raid.
Well, certainly possible that, and I should also note that B-2s are also available. Plus, some of the newer F-18s have been retrofitted with an analogous radar system as the F-22 (to call it a radar system is really wholly inadequate...it is now also our primary Electronic weapons platform). It allows many deceptions to be played on the enemies sensors. It can insert virus packages. It can take over their systems. It can simply send false or phantom reads, and completely conceal the actual source. It's capabilities are profound. No reason to advertise them too much, but suffice it to say, I just hope we can keep these systems out of the clutches of the Red Chinese.
A few minutes later, without warning, the Syrians’ vaunted air-defense network sites began mysteriously blowing up, one site at a time. Once the bad guys’ AAD network was blown to pieces by JDAMs launched from our stealth platforms outside of Syrian airspace, the IAF strike team flew through the gaping hole in their coverage and struck the target.
That is simply the easy way.
(Egress was over “friendly” territory — Turkey — to avoid any AAD we kight have missed.)
Don't know if that would actually be "friendly" ...they didn't let us tranship or overfly during the Iraq war for example...and they are notably ruled by an increasingly theocratic anti-secular Islamic lately...
President Mrs. Bill will send them immediately over. Mr. Bill set the precedent for that and he will be there, too.