There was film from Russian TV that showed some did hit runways. They made a hole about two feet deep and a few feet across. Looks like it could be fixed in a couple hours with some concrete. Not much of a return for a $1,410,000 missile.
You seriously believe everything the Russian news media tells you?
It is very difficult to disable runways and easy to repair them. You have to crater a lot of the concrete. There are special munitions for trying to do this such as the JP233. But these must be delivered at low-level. Very dangerous for the attacking aircraft.
In the first Gulf War, the RAF lost four Tornados trying to disable runways with JP233’s and had to change tactics and drop bombs from medium altitude using many sorties.
Do you think a couple of potholes is all the US achieved in this raid? That’s certainly what your comment implies.
Those tamls are like Zatarain’s rice dinners you’ve had in your pantry for two years and know you need to make else throw them out. Sorting out the expired spices from the stable rice would cost more in effort than worth it.
Maybe so, but most everything that was shown, was that we drove those Tomahawks right through the open front doors of those aircraft shelters and there’s nothing left inside but some scrap metal.
That money could pay for a lot of research and engineering.
Russian TV!!!? Good God Hugin you are smarter than that! C’mon!
I saw the drone footage with IR of craters. Not much bang for the American buck. It was Clintonesque. How did it stop the proliferation of WMD and punish Assad exactly (even if he was culpable?)
That was taken locally here in S.E. Michigan about two miles from my house. It was a typical winter pot hole here on M-59 that likely won't be patched till mid May......