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ORIGINAL: mikeCK

And yes, I believe an official US military briefing over the statements of a Russian General 13 hours after the strike

Why? Looks like both have the same credibility (close to zero).
Because Russians are communist?[:D]

ORIGINAL: mikeCK
Do you really think that Syrians - operating 20-60 year old Air Defense equipment shot down 70% of terrain following cruise missiles coming in from various axis of attack and accompanied by EW jamming?

What equipment operate the Syrian Air defense?

Any indication that the Israeli strike a few days ago may haven some sort of “recon by fire” to confirm the location of Syrian air defenses? Not sure how much the Israelis would share this sort of tactical information, but the thought occurred to me.

I agree. I don't believe that either wanted conflict, and it was "agreed upon" before that the strike would be limited, but that it was coming. Both sides left it at that, and each saves face.

Doug

If you think a Russian general in Moscow has the same credibility as to accuracy of a strike conducted by the United States As a US PENTAGON spokesman then I don’t see how we can have a conversation. Especially considering he claimed that nothing was damaged and 70% of the missiles were shot down

Anyway, anyone here anything new about the JASSM performance in particular?

ORIGINAL: Gunner98
Not sure why I should apologize for stating that the Russians are following their doctrine:

What mean this bulk of links?
US are much more "masters at misinformation, propaganda, controlling the press and using information as a weapon", but here we are discussing military and technical question, but nobody fantasy about Russian bear or American foozle.

ORIGINAL: Gunner98
So I won't

I don't ask you opinion. You must.

ORIGINAL: mikeCK
Do you really think that Syrians - operating 20-60 year old Air Defense equipment

Looks like you don't know real situation with Syrian AD and its equipment.

ORIGINAL: mikeCK

If you think a Russian general in Moscow has the same credibility as to accuracy of a strike conducted by the United States As a US PENTAGON spokesman then I don’t see how we can have a conversation

Russian general unlike his Pentagon vis-a-vis has access to targets. But Pentagon general can base their opinion only on satellite photo. So - yes. Russian have same credibility.

I don't ask you opinion. You must.

Well I'm afraid not. Enjoy your opinion - everyone's got one.

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/20 ... -dod-says/

Apparently United States military was so concerned with the deadly Syrian air defense that there were no EW escorts for any of the bombers except 1 EA-6B which is an obsolete version of the new EF-18. Because of the standoff weaponry they were not needed. I think the take away from the article is the lack of electronic warfare craft utilized. If they thought the air defense system would be significant or the Russians would take part, they certainly would’ve had more assets

So according to this article compared to our omniscient Russian General's statement:

77 Tomahawks out of the 57 fired were shot down by 40 SAMs fired after all the attacking weapons had impacted. Impressive.

B

ORIGINAL: Gunner98

So according to this article compared to our omniscient Russian General's statement:

77 Tomahawks out of the 57 fired were shot down by 40 SAMs fired after all the attacking weapons had impacted. Impressive.

B

There were 66 Tomahawks fired overall, 57 targeted the R&D facility in Damascus.
30 USS Monterey
23 USS Higgins
7 USS Laboon
6 USS John Warner

Still, downing 77 out of 66 is an impressive achievement! [:D]

ORIGINAL: mikeCK

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Yes! All 100+ missiles hit this 3 targets. US missiles so weak that to destroy three buildings needed 100 missiles. Past time, after Shailat hitting we can count shell holes. Do you count 100 shell holes on this photo”

Ok, so we are off the “70% of missiles were shot down” and moving into ridiculousness. The Tomahawk carries a 1000lb warhead and the JASSM carries a 450lb warhead. Have you ever worked in targeting? These complexes weren’t just 1 building. They had multiple buildings and there is built in redundancy. May want to hit 10 locations on a target...so you might launch 20 (2 at each) with another 8 split between the largest or most important

Your just being silly. I guess the Russian 1000lb warhead is far more damaging because.....it’s Russian

I have to think your just messin with me.

Please, count here 100 shell craters

http://uploads.ru/vXVYQ.jpg

http://uploads.ru/tG4UW.jpg

http://uploads.ru/DW2BO.jpg

Show, where on this photo this explosion repeats 70 times: https://youtu.be/8sa7ZX58Kk4?t=17

ORIGINAL: OldSarge
Still, downing 77 out of 66 is an impressive achievement!

Can you read or understand readed? 71 is total count of shot downed missiles. Tomahawks, SCALPs, JASSMs, Storm Shadows

ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Well I'm afraid not. Enjoy your opinion - everyone's got one.

Not everyone. Minion-countries not has. They can only repeat opinion of Great Powers.

ORIGINAL: Filitch

ORIGINAL: OldSarge
Still, downing 77 out of 66 is an impressive achievement!

Can you read or understand readed? 71 is total count of shot downed missiles. Tomahawks, SCALPs, JASSMs, Storm Shadows

I can read and do math just fine, thank you for asking. I was responding to Gunner.

I still say, downing 71 missiles with only 40 SAM launches is very impressive! [8D]

I can read and do math just fine, thank you for asking. I was responding to Gunner. I still say, downing 71 missiles with only 40 SAM launches is very impressive!

I stand corrected OldSarge. Thank you.

Also impressive that the first satalite photos of the area are Russian.

B

Oldsarge, surely you know that Russian missiles are so good that they can take out 2 American Tomahawks. What is amazing is all those tomahawks the Syrians intercepted over targets that were never fired upon.
Apparently they were able to incinerate the missiles
As well as no one has found the Remenants of any downed
Tomahawk.

I’m not sure if I really believe that anyone seriously believes that 70 out of 100 missiles were shot down By 30 year old ADA.

Would have been interesting if the Russians had attempted to target the attack with the S-400. I do question whether any air defense can protect a target from 20 low flying missiles coming from different directions

Not everyone. Minion-countries not has. They can only repeat opinion of Great Powers.

Sorry I was speaking about personal opinion. I'm not sure my government has made a statement except for deploring the gas attacks.

Do you have personal opinions where you come from? Where is that - oh I see.

ORIGINAL: mikeCK

Oldsarge, surely you know that Russian missiles are so good that they can take out 2 American Tomahawks. What is amazing is all those tomahawks the Syrians intercepted over targets that were never fired upon.
Apparently they were able to incinerate the missiles
As well as no one has found the Remenants of any downed
Tomahawk.

I’m not sure if I really believe that anyone seriously believes that 70 out of 100 missiles were shot down By 30 year old ADA.

Would have been interesting if the Russians had attempted to target the attack with the S-400. I do question whether any air defense can protect a target from 20 low flying missiles coming from different directions

It isn't just the equipment, it is also the quality of the soldiers at the controls (level of training, experience, initiative, will to fight, et cetera). It all comes down to getting inside the OODA loop, which at first glance appears to be what happened.

ORIGINAL: mikeCK

If you think a Russian general in Moscow has the same credibility as to accuracy of a strike conducted by the United States As a US PENTAGON spokesman then I don’t see how we can have a conversation. Especially considering he claimed that nothing was damaged and 70% of the missiles were shot down

Anyway, anyone here anything new about the JASSM performance in particular?

You did not wrote any reason. Why a US pentagon spokesman has more credibility than a Russian spokesman?
It is not reasonable. And you do not want have a conversation because you know that your position is not reasonable.
We are not supporting a team in a match, that's not the Superbowl, that's real life. People die every day in Syria.

I do not have proofs in any direction. I only have 2 statements about the same event. And I do not have any posibility to discover who is telling the true and Who is liying...Or maybe why not? both are lying. Maybe the true is between both versions of the event.

Some of you are trying to think....That's good. But pals. you are cheating. [:D] You have your pre-established ideas and from this conclusions your are building the evidences to support it (its the reverse order)....Yeah. Now some of you are using some fake statements of the russian spokesman...And Do you think that if the russian spokesman lie, the US Spokesman is telling the true? That's ridiculous [:D]
Normally we must prove true facts. False claims only serves to discard them, that's not bad, but it's not enough to know the true.

By the way, the russian spokesman didn't said tomahawks, he said cruise missiles (Tomahawks, SCALP, Storm Shadow and JASSM-ER). When this statement didn't work to support your own conclusion, you switched to another statement...It's impossible to Shut down 71 missiles with only 40 SAMs. And that's true. It is impossible. The problem again is...Who said that. US Spokesman. Why he has more credibilty? WMDs in Irak, remember? That's a fact now.
Then, what we have here.
Russian Spokesman: 71 missiles shot down.
US Spokesman: 40 SAMs launched.
Yeah, again. Someone lie, or maybe both.

We do not know what is happened last night in the skies of Syria. We wont' know the true. You must understand it.

ORIGINAL: mikeCK

I’m not sure if I really believe that anyone seriously believes that 70 out of 100 missiles were shot down By 30 year old ADA.

I asked you before. I will try again. You said that the Syrian air defense is 30 years old...so what's the equipment in use by the Syrian Air defense?