Syria Strike Puts Lockheed Martin's Stealthy New Missile to Test

Yahoo News linking to Bloomberg ^ | April 14, 2018 | Anthony Capaccio

[odawg]

“So we’re blowing up sovereign nations to show off our new hardware?”

Looks like someone came out with some talking points about the U.S. blowing up a “sovereign nation.”

Would it not be nice if the Islamic extremists were so cautious about blowing up a sovereign nation?

Would it not be nice if Syria was cautious about flooding sovereign nations with millions of refugees?

And Trump merely blew up three buildings that intelligence certified were concocting chemical warfare components.

[Navy Patriot]

If all those stealthy new missiles hit their targets at chemical weapons plants....where are all the dead bystanders? Wouldn’t these explosions create huge clouds of toxic gases?

You can get in a heck of a lot of trouble asking questions like that.

[Scooter100]

You are assuming what...that these centers are nicely situated among the trees above ground? I’ll bet they are hundreds of feet UNDER ground.

[Navy Patriot]

New but still subsonic.

Who are you to question Lockheed's tactical genius? Next thing, you'll be complaining about the price.

[Henchster]

If all those stealthy new missiles hit their targets at chemical weapons plants....where are all the dead bystanders? Wouldn’t these explosions create huge clouds of toxic gases?

They hit three plants that were making components - the components then need to be CAREFULLY mixed and assembled.

[Cementjungle]

Nope. I bought some as soon as Trump got elected... up ever since.

[Zhang Fei]

Thanks for the link. Sounds like if the Germans had better guidance systems, they could have taken out most of the D-Day invasion fleet.

[Snickering Hound]

They hit three plants that were making components - the components then need to be CAREFULLY mixed and assembled.

Shhhh, the conspiracy theorists are in the midst of discovering yet another insidious plot.

[Zhang Fei]

Sooo...

Now all of our REAL enemies will know the actual capabilities of them.

Great.

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We now know whether the S-400 can intercept them. Maybe.

[Pontiac]

Nope. I bought some as soon as Trump got elected... up ever since.

That seems odd.

I don’t think there has been a more war monger president than Obama.

I would think that all of the armament vendors stock would have been dipping as he left office.

And as Secretary of State Hillary was ready to blow up everybody. I would think that she would be the Raytheon’s choice candidate.

Trump campaigned on getting us out of Syria.

[Zhang Fei]

So we’re blowing up sovereign nations to show off our new hardware?

If Assad goes down Syria will go the way of Libya post Kadaffy, with a rabid Erdogen itching to take new ground.

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Given how Assad fed, paid, armed and dispatched any number of Syrian and other Islamic radicals to kill GI’s in Iraq, he’s only getting what he deserves, and from many of the same radicals he egged on. If he had played nice ... Anyhow, it’s the road not taken.

[PAR35]

Well, they got to the moon and back, something that no one else has been able to replicate in the last 40 years.

[cba123]

Trump is very pro-Defense.

He is not for America going around lording it all over everywhere else though.

He is for more quiet, controlled strength, basically.

But he is pro-Defense. No question.

[Zhang Fei]

Trump campaigned on getting us out of Syria.

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Not that I could see. He campaigned on a strong America that did things he, not America’s hangers-on, thought were in the country’s interests. The bombing of Syria for gas attacks was presumably meant to ensure that such attacks did not become routine in Middle Eastern wars.

It was also a sop to our allies in the Gulf kingdoms, whose restive troglodyte populations really, really hate their rulers for allying with the Great Satan aka Uncle Sam, and would just as soon see us killed to the last man, woman and child. Now, some may prefer to see us nuking the Middle East till it glows, in the aftermath of a terror attack dwarfing 9/11. I don’t. I think this Cold War we have with the murderous Muslim majorities of the region, with the Arab rulers keeping a lid on things is a good thing. Because a Hot War with us killing them by the tens of millions with nukes would be far worse.

People rag on the Cold War but we emerged from it without tens of millions of dead on both sides. I’d say it was an era that achieved a good balance of deterrence and diplomacy, even though these factors weren’t always present at the same time. But deterrence needs to be fed from time to time with concrete demonstrations of both capability and willingness to act. That was what this rap on the knuckles was all about. Conduct a gas attack, and we will destroy hundreds of millions of dollars of your equipment.

[enduserindy]

Iran owns Syria. Has for a while now..

[WildHighlander57]

See hechster’s post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3647592/posts?page=25#25

[DarthVader]

See your email for response.

[llevrok]

We now know whether the S-400 can intercept them. Maybe.

I've been wondering all day whether the Rooskies had them stand down to save face or the local operators were just horribly incompetent.

[llevrok]

So we’re blowing up sovereign nations to show off our new hardware?

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

[UCANSEE2]

Now all of our REAL enemies will know the actual capabilities of them.

Yep. For instance they know that they got their asses kicked.