Posted on 08/27/2013 2:10:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
Unable to take advantage of such modern-day weapons as cruise missiles and smart bombs, Syrian rebels are employing far more rudimentary technology in their assaults on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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Currently the only Russian ship at their base in Tartus, Syria is the Amur-class floating workshop (similar to a US Navy destroyer tender) PM-138, which is stationed there to support the ships currently assigned to the Med.
Right now there are two destroyers, three medium-sized amphibs, seven support ships, and an unknown number of submarines operating in the area. If things start to get really troublesome, they might deploy their Black Sea Fleet, which has two cruisers, one destroyer, two frigates, and thirteen corvettes. A number of these ships are armed with the SS-N-22 Sunburn ramjet anti-ship missile. A wave-hugger with a speed in excess of Mach-3, this missile was designed to cripple US carriers and kill just about anything else.
Could not agree with you more.
“These people are ruthless and understand war is an ugly business, we want to fight it as if there are laws in warfare.”
If you can’t even piss on their corpse you certainly can’t eliminate them.
Bump!
It doesn’t say your jihad has to be succesful, you can fail miserably if you had purity of heart when you blow yourself trying to take out your enemy
Where is the one with the rebels using a giant slingshot to hurl chemical weapons at the Syrian Army?
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If you can’t even piss on their corpse you certainly can’t eliminate them.
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