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Thanks for the map.

It seems proved one of a point, that no matter how worse the North Korean could be (by nuke test and throwing BMs to Japan Sea), Trump's priority is still AM (I am not hinting what it means), and Assad had 'disappointed' him. "A country without nuke is a target practice." seems legit in Cold War standard.

Not sure how much practice the USN need launching Tomahawks. They are the bread and butter of post cold war mid east geopolitics. I guess many members of the crew never did so in an actual operation. Hats off to them. BTW, how many times have USN destroyers launched cruise missiles at enemy targets? I would enjoy reading a history on that.

Kevin

PS: just heard it was the Tomahawk E - the most recent rendition. "The RGM/UGM-109E Tomahawk (Block IV TLAM-E) is the latest member in the Tomahawk missile family. It carries a 1,000lb class unitary warhead for a maximum range of 900nmi." "The variant currently being purchased by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) - for the Navy - is the RGM/UGM-109E Tomahawk Block IV aka Tactical Tomahawk features a two-way satellite data link that allows the controller to switch target during flight to pre-programmed alternate targets or redirect it to a new target. The targeting flexibility also includes the capability to loiter over the battlefield, while waiting for a more critical target."

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USNI: How the U.S. planned and executed the Tomahawk strike against the al-Shayrat airfield in Syria

https://news.usni.org/2017/04/07/us-planned-executed-tomahawk-strike

ORIGINAL: redcoat


USNI: How the U.S. planned and executed the Tomahawk strike against the al-Shayrat airfield in Syria

https://news.usni.org/2017/04/07/us-planned-executed-tomahawk-strike

Part of which states...
The runway itself was not targeted – the TLAM, based on its size and capability, would have had little impact on the runway and would be “a waste” for that target set, a senior defense official said.

So maybe we finally have closure on this subject? [;)]

The conclusion is too soon to tell. Putin has demanded an emergency meeting of UNSC:

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201704 ... ack-syria/

Boeing's commercial for F-15 upgrades

Someone's played too much Ace Combat [:D]

For someone who want to learn more about the history of Tomahawk:

https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... ic-killer/

EDIT: I know you saw I wrote "Oblivious" and I edited it out. Apologize if it offended you.

Anyone have some tactical details on the recent tomahawk strike? I am curious if the Russians tried to engage but failed or did they just watch the missiles hit home? Did the US employ any jamming or cyber activity to support the operation? Are the s-300 s-400 systems compromised?

Separately, not that is matters a whole lot, I found it interesting that the captain of the Porter is a women.

http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/MCM2/ ... OoztIjytPY

The previous 11 captains were men.

Kevin

Reports say that the Russians did not attempt to engage. This is likely due to a desire to avoid escalation rather than direct US efforts.

Russia was warned about the strike beforehand.

ORIGINAL: raptorx7

Russia was warned about the strike beforehand.

Odd that they (The Russians) in turn didn't warn the Syrians who in turn didn't remove their aircraft from the base.

Even if they had, I imagine the time constraints would have prevented many options for Syria. That said, apparently Russia was able to protect their personnel assets.

-Wayne

USS Porter with the same commander has done a very important work the last months, in exercices Sea Shield 2017 (Black Sea) and Dynamic Manta 2017 (Sicily).
On the fifth photo you can see cdr Andria Slough in the bridge of USS Porter, in a relaxed but military posture, in an incredibly atmospheric photo:
http://www.c6f.navy.mil/news/exercise-d ... 017-begins

"WE WANT WAR!! WAKE UP!!"

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hackers-set-o ... 55025.html

Unidentified hackers set off all the 156 emergency sirens in Dallas in one of the largest known breaches of a siren warning system waking up city residents in panic.

The sirens most often used to warn about extreme weather conditions like tornadoes were triggered at 11:42 pm CDT on 7 April. It continued for nearly two hours until engineers manually shut down the sirens' radio system and repeaters. Within 15 minutes of the sirens going off, emergency hotline numbers received around 800 panic calls from residents.

-more at link-

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Meanwhile, the increasing tension in Syria cannot make Korean less dangerous. Trump decided to give the world a message: "Either die or die." (Meaning the termination of rogue dictatorships whom used/tested nuke and WMD.), Russia and China will eventually be the next.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-warships-s ... 00985.html

The US has sent warships into waters near the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear threat.

It comes days after North Korea condemned America's strike on Syria as an act of "intolerable aggression", claiming the move justified "a million times over" their reasons for developing a nuclear deterrent.

President Donald Trump talked to China's leader Xi Jinping this week about the need for Beijing to encourage Kim Jong-Un to halt his nuclear weapons programme.

Ahead of the meeting, North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.

Now, in the latest sign that tensions are increasing, the US has deployed a Navy strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier from Singapore.
It described the decision to divert the fleet from scheduled calls in Australia as "a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the Western Pacific".

Despite UN resolutions barring North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology, Mr Kim has been busy developing missile capabilities. So far five nuclear tests have been staged, two of them last year.

-more at link-

Anti-piracy operation should be sounding for maritime safety, but when it's involved with nationalism, then it's not.

Chinese navy successfully retake a foreign merchant ship from Somali pirates, at the same time Indian navy was still en route to the incident area. The Indian journalism reported the success of operation "By the aid of Indian navy". However, Chinese official statement denied such claim, and said that are no other foreign navy except Chinese to save them.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/india-china-n ... 53198.html
http://www.china.com/act/military/11132 ... 07010.html (Simplified Chinese)

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... yped-20111\

Small but current opinion on S400 in Syria.

"That said, all types of air defense systems, including the S-400, are still in large part untested as to whether they can resist multiple missile attacks. India and China should take that into account while focusing on the reinforcement of their own air and missile defenses. In this sense, the S-400’s mixed performance in Syria against the US Tomahawks should at least raise some doubt in Delhi and Beijing over the capabilities of this Russian arms system."

Poker on a geopolitical scale.

Kevin

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... yped-20111\

Small but current opinion on S400 in Syria.

"That said, all types of air defense systems, including the S-400, are still in large part untested as to whether they can resist multiple missile attacks. India and China should take that into account while focusing on the reinforcement of their own air and missile defenses. In this sense, the S-400’s mixed performance in Syria against the US Tomahawks should at least raise some doubt in Delhi and Beijing over the capabilities of this Russian arms system."

Poker on a geopolitical scale.

Kevin

Not sure I understand the quote from the article about the effectiveness of it against Tomahawks...Russia didn't try and intercept them.

I guess that's an open questions among like minds. Try and fail = embarrassment or try and succeed = escalation. In either case, the Russians give away valuable intel and fire off ordnance that is not easily replaced. So, the likely scenario is they watched on the couch.

[>:]

Kevin

I don't think all the current S-400s in the world are armed with 40N6, as Russia stated its still evaluating before the mass production.

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Meanwhile Chinese Foreign Minister arrived to South Korea, and directly state the concerns of THAAD's X-Band radar threatening the Chinese airspace (as I was predicted before), cancel the deployment is the only hope to avoid further conflict and economic turmoil. He also denied the Chinese government is sanctioning South Korean commercial enterprises in retaliation.

http://www.china.com/act/military/11132 ... 12430.html (Simplified Chinese)