ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

Yesterday at 5:51 PM
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A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!
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The Syrian raid was so perfectly carried out, with such precision, that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term “Mission Accomplished.” I knew they would seize on this but felt it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back. Use often!
 

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Missile found in Suwayda, has been claimed by Facebook to be American. It's actually Syrian A Russian made SA 6 What I find funny is not only the miss identification but that it managed to pull of a Space X landing.

Yep, once the warhead detonates the heaviest part of the missile are the tail fins, which seem to have pulled it down arse backwards! LOL
 

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do you believe seventy-six

(it's 76; 57 TLAMs and 19 JASSMs:
Department of Defense Press Briefing by Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Dana W. White and Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. in the Pentagon Briefing Room
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missiles were used to flatten about three acres:
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(concerns the compound, spelled "Barzeh" in that Pentagon document, shown Today at 8:50 AM)

of course, if there were a single Tomahawk carcass in Syria, we would have it photographed from 105 different angles, LOL!
 

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The Syrian raid was so perfectly carried out, with such precision, that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term “Mission Accomplished.” I knew they would seize on this but felt it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back. Use often!

YEP! this really is a lot of fun!
 

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Yesterday at 8:06 PM
this:
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is reportedly (
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) "from about 10:45 a.m." [of yesterday] so
Yes or No: would this damage be consistent with the claim of 57 TLAMs and 19 JASSMs hits? Yesterday at 8:06 PM

LOL I love maps so couldn't resist to go to maps.google.com to see that place 'before' ...:
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EDIT it's at something like [33.55775, 36.31619]

Unless the smoke is hiding anything, its the large building in three blocks and few annexes.
So would it take one third of the missiles launched to achieve that damage? that would be what 35 missiles?
I would have thought that half a dozen precision strikes and the resultant fires would do the job very well.

Based on this it suggest a high interception rate was at least anticipated by NATO forces, which is why the otherwise massive overkill quantity of missiles were launched.

As to what happened, who knows for sure. It was widely reported before the strikes, that Russia had connected their S-400 systems into the Syrian National AD network and it seems most likely that the S-400's were supplying identification, tracking and maybe even targeting to the Syrian batteries. I agree with Wolfie that given AD were not targets and that Cruise Missiles are relatively simple to target, once found, so a high knock down rate is certainly credible. I also wonder how much jamming was also being done on Saturday morning.

All of which fascinating though it may be, is in the event, largely irrelevant, as it is now clear that this has been as much a pantomime as anything else and one that appears primarily to save face and allow Trump to withdraw US forces from Syria with the appearance of grace.
 
Today at 4:50 PM
OK then let me tell you the impact of about 60k pounds of warheads is feeble (note just normal buildings got hit, by the way I've read somewhere they were inspected under Obama), but what do I know LOL
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found in Twitter (
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); please tell me
"Against the first target, the Barzeh Research and Development Center, which is located in the greater Damascus area, we employed 76 missiles; 57 of these were Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, and 19 were joint air-to-surface standoff missiles, or JASS's. "
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Department of Defense Press Briefing by Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Dana W. White and Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. in the Pentagon Briefing Room
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bd popeye

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This thread is an endless arguments of two sides. It is useless and non-productive. All sides of the arguments can draw their own conclusions...Oh by the way none of us were there. Not a single one.

Thread closed..ooppss..I'm no mod so I can't do that....sorry.:rolleyes:
 
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