Posted on 10/01/2015 11:57:17 AM PDT by lodi90
The U.S. Air Force’s senior intelligence officer said Thursday that Russia lacked precision-guided weapons for its bombing campaign in Syria and would likely inflict substantial civilian casualties as a result.
Lt. Gen. Robert P. Otto, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, told reporters in Washington that it appeared the Russian forces were using “dumb bombs” instead of weapons guided by lasers or satellites. The Russian air strike campaign began Wednesday in areas north of the city of Homs that are controlled by anti-government rebels.
“To me, it was representative of what you’d expect from dumb bombs, being dropped from airplanes at medium altitudes, which is not that impressive,” Otto told journalists from the Defense Writers Group.
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cheapskates
Putin does not care about civilian casualties.
That is why he is going to smash ISIS.
If I were a ruthless Russian, I’d clean out my stockpile of dumb bombs left from WWII first.
They want a “pretty war” in the media where they can hide out in the hotel bar
Dumb bombs beats a dumb president.
Well there you go. No need for taxpayer dollars; they have their sugar daddy.
This.
He’s going into war to wage war. Not a PR campaign like we do.
I noted this yesterday just from watching the hits.
The Russians do have fairly able PGB, but don’t have the budget or the need to use them.
They want EVERYONE to die and to break their spirit.
It’s actually a far more effective bombing strategy that pinpoint hits, if you can take the political heat and don’t have a soul.
So these are the JV bombs?
Dumb bombs are cheap; you can use a lot of them.
“Quantity has a quality of its own” - Josef Stalin
The video I saw on TV this morning showed the Russians using cluster bombs. The US uses the same kind of bombs so this faux outrage to me is just that, a faux outrage from the Obama camp that’s upset that the Russians are doing the job that Obama doesn’t want to: killing ISIS regardless of what name they’re going by.
Oh my GOODNESS, will Russia “create more terrorists” this way?!
Not.
Why waste high priced ordnance on mussies?
They don’t need to shoot up the expensive stuff first just to resupply the defense contractors before election time. :)
Now let’s all go home, put our heads in are pillows and have a god cry!
Well, we have pretty well proven that you cannot win wars against muslim savages by building them new hospitals, airports, highways, bridges, sewerage plants, power plants, water works and schools for girls.
Maybe bombing the living crap out of them will yield better results.
“Russia lacked precision-guided weapons for its bombing campaign in Syria”
I find that hard to believe.
I doubt that the Russians are overly concerned about collateral damage.
Their bombing strategy is usually “bomb first, sort the casualties later” type of campaign. When you’re going after a force that isn’t easily identified, no uniforms or mixed population/militants and such, carpet bombing tends to be messy, yet effective.
Poor Lodi90, she wanted an anti-Putin response when she posted up this thread...
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