So, what is the outlook now? The MSM is baying for blood and

>>33562849

>be syrian air defense truck driver
>i'm napping after eating a kosher hotdog
>BOOM BOOM BOOMB00M BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOM
>my TC looks over to me
>'FAMIR FUCK FAMIR WE ARE GOING TO BE OF DEAD SOON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'
>50 more tomahawks coming down on me
>i fall out of the truck and i sprint in the opposite direction of flames bursting in air

>>33562882
I thought they just shot up the Airfield, were they going after Air Defense too?

>>33562897

i've never really seen 60 tomahawks hitting the earth in one location but i imagine if i were there on the end that i didn't want to be seeing it then i would get the fuck as far away from that place as humanly possible

>>33562849
The US warned the Russians beforehand. So the vatniks moved to cover. The Syrians seeing the vatniks move, started to move, too. That's why in the end only a half dozen or so people got killed. That's 10 tomahawks per person killed. Could as well crash land a nuclear carrier on an empty fishing village.

>>33562849
>According to the Russian Defence Ministry only 23 of the 59 launched US cruise missiles made it to their target.

>Runway completely undamaged, most bunkers and aircraft intact, out of the 23 of 59 Tomahawk that did not crash many missiles hit empty fields

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>>33563204
>According to the Russian Defense Ministry

>>33563218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtJjPypT7I

It's either that or most of those missiles had water balloons for warheads.

>>33563218
>>33563235

SAA is claiming it shot down 30 missiles. Kinda bold statement but we'll see.

>>33563235
You know, it's also possible that they used the advanced warning from the White House and the knowledge that most of the missiles were only being fired for show to discredit American military capability. If your enemy tells you that they're going to fire 60 missiles but most aren't going to do shit, you're going to run with that.

Trump set up a propaganda slam dunk for the Kremlin, and I doubt they'd be dumb enough not to take the chance there.

>>33563257
wait, who is 4D-chess'ing who now? I've completely lost the big picture with all the "muh shill/false flag/zionist plan/TRUMPTRUMPTRUMP/ObamaBTFO/ASSadMAD" posting going on today

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>>33562897
Heres a map of the area they targeted.

>>33563257

Back when nato was bombing Serbia I've heard cruise missiles suffered quite high losses from manpads fired from tall residential buildings so who know, maybe some where really shot down.

>>33563283
The point I am making is that the US made an intentionally limp-wristed attack on a Syrian/Russian base as a show of force against Assad and for the American people, but Russia is exploiting this in an attempt to discredit American military capabilities.

>Tell Russia we're sending missiles
>But it's cool because most won't do shit
>"Sounds good, American comerade!"
>Missiles fly into Syria and do shit
>Russia turns to the rest of the world
>"haha, look at weak American missile!"
>howcouldthishappen.jpg

>>33563243
Well Konashenkov said that "only 23 missiles have reached the airfield", but didn't specify what happened to the rest, he didn't mention anything about AA systems except that some radars were hit. Either they're not satisfied with their AA and are downplaying their involvement or didn't shoot any of them down and they simply crashed on their own.

>If your enemy tells you that they're going to fire 60 missiles but most aren't going to do shit, you're going to run with that.
This scenario doesn't benefit Washington at all, the only thing it achieves is (hopefully) silences the masses of people who only read the headlines and are upset with the use of chemical weapons which the US had blown out of proportion in the first place. So first they make up a problem, then pretend to fix it by using force, jeopardizing all the recent progress and playing into the hand of Russian propaganda machine and isis?

>>33562849
s-300 can't even shoot down israeli f-15s

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Fox and Friends just reported 58 of 59 targets struck.

>>33563320

There are photos of at least one crashing in someones backyard on the Syrian coast.

>>33563329

SAA is claiming it shot down 30 missiles over some kind of mountain range. We'll see.

>>33562849
Bring it on commie bastards. I've been waiting for some payback.

>>33563354
SAA also was claiming they won the war years ago

>>33563329
>s-300 can't even shoot down israeli f-15s
no reason to protect hezzies after all.

>>33563320
>Either they're not satisfied with their AA and are downplaying their involvement or didn't shoot any of them down and they simply crashed on their own.
It'd be a much bigger egg on the face for the US military if more than half of their cruise missiles just straight up failed in the air. That's memetic Russian-tier right there. I'd like to think they are downplaying their involvement because as impressive it may be on account of huge disadvantage in engagement geometries and sheer amount of ordinance, the defences still failed in the end. Which is ok, IMO, because SAMs are really the last line of defence when it comes to cruie missile saturation attacks- the vanguard of which are the MiG-31 interceptors ofc. It would be interesting if they bring those to Syria in light of recent developments.

>>33563373
>no reason to protect hezzies after all.

even when those jews are bombing your own adn?

says a lot famalam

>>33563348
>Fox and Friends just reported 58 of 59 targets struck.
pretty fucking impossible given that the airbase is still standing for the most part and there haven't been any reports of any other targets outside of said airbase. Fake news MSM crap

CNN also has 58 of 59

Slavshit AD BTFO

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-military/

So this is what WW3 looks like

What a time to be alive

>>33563377
>even when those jews are bombing your own adn?
Where did they bomb elements of Russian IADS? That'd be news. No, the Russians simply allow the IAF to bomb hezzies whenever those sandniggers come to collect on their tolls for figthing Assad's war in advanced weapon systems. They are still terrorists, even if they are fighting fellow terrorists after all.

>>33563389
wait for the grand nuclear finale, coming to a city near you

>>33563348
Who the fuck wants to be friends with Fox?

>>33563391
>russian

lel, we are talking about syrians here you retard

the israelis already proved that russian made adns are a joke and have done so numerous times in the past four years

>>33563383
>fox
>Base hit in strike 'almost completely destroyed,' early reports say | About 20 Syrian jets destroyed by airstrikes

>>33563348

well if the target was the ground they sure did not miss it

>>33563309
>misses do shit
Except they didnt.

>>33563422
>missiles do shit
>as in missiles do nothing

Threads like these are why /k/ needs /pol/ style flags and IDs.

It's pretty clear that we've got some /pol/ crossover and Cheeky-Breeky-Defense-Force.

>>33563407
>lel, we are talking about syrians here you retard
>your own adn?
use of pronouns is way above you. please try again.
>the israelis already proved that russian made adns are a joke and have done so numerous times in the past four years
if they did then why would they kvetch about the S-300 if it was indeed shit?

>>33563409

High res pics

http://sputnikimages.com/en/site/search/?q=Voskresenskiy&field=author

>>33563505
>vatniks BTFO
thanks for the pics

>>33562849
>to lob Scuds into Israel if there are more airstrikes.
LOL.
Yea that will work.

>>33562849
>Assad is threatening to lob Scuds into Israel if there are more airstrikes.

Is this true?!!? Someone give a link this sounds like bull.

>>33563505

So they hit some open IDGAF exhausted oil tanks
Some facility with UB-32 rocket pods
Couple of hangars with old as fuck Su-17M3
Something something with shapes and drop tanks

All of this cause they gassed some towelheads
of a third world country

Nice way to start a WW3 and waste millions of hardware on 70's tech

>>33563539
If anything, those pictures show the opposite.

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>>33562849

>>33563204
59 launched. 58 hit their target. One lost due to gps failure.

>>33563554
>>33563559
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4353586/Syria-threatens-use-SCUD-missiles-Israel.html

>>33563583
Seems to me like most hardened shelters were struck, the 5 MiG-21s that are sitting in the open were probably towed away as the most precious aircraft when they received the warning of the strike

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>>33563295
>drawing a penis with tomahawk craters
As expected of President Donald "What am I even doing" Trump

>>33563348
Fake news.

>>33563554
I wouldn't mind watching the IDF show the Syrians how they handle all the Palestinians who tried that kind of shit.

>>33563637
kek

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>>33563583

>"Fuel storage facility"

Jesus Christ wasting tomahawk on this.

>>33563583
>Couple of hangars with old as fuck Su-17M3
That's like bombing a museum, Americans should learn some damn respect for history

>>33563627

Was wrong about Su-17 as the spine of the survivors tells me that those are M4 but anyway the spine of those Mig-21s are yelling Mig-21MF if not ex Iraqi Air Force J7 that are no longer fly worthy

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>>33563295
>>33563637

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>>33563637
>As expected of President Donald "What am I even doing" Trump

>>33563752
Holy shit my sides

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Lel, fake news president goes to war based on fake news.

How's that BLOMPF working out for you burger blasters?

>>33563783

>Intel agencies accuse you of colluding with Russia and tease the media with evidence to keep the public guessing if he is a puppet.

>THE SAME intel tell Trump that Assad gassed his people "for sure".

How does that even work? Like in a meeting, how do you talk to the people actively sabotaging your government?

>>33562849
Because the S-300 and S-400 system is a meme

>>33563820
>Like in a meeting, how do you talk to the people actively sabotaging your government?
It's very hard, but the CIA is maintaining their professionalism in the face of the Traitor in Chief's blowhard, hotheaded nature.

>>33563637
Do you even know what a penis look like you fucking dipshit?

>>33563783
>Defending Trump up to this point.
No anon, you are the Jew.

>>33563608

How is it a harmless gesture and an effective message at the same time?

>>33563430
THIS THIS THIS

IVAN, CHING CHONG, ABDUL PLEASE GO

>>33563235
hahahaha, notice how its so edited because they cannot got more than a few seconds with seeing something on fire, or blown up.

>>33562849
Nothing

Absolutely nothing will happen

>>33563243
>>33563354
>>33563366
remember zabandi? "We have taken 95% of the town, and will conquer it completely in a matter of hours." next week "We have taken 75% of the town, and will conquer the town in a day or two." next week "We have retreated from the town."

>>33563554
You can see Damascus from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. This could be fun.

>>33563191

The objective wasn't to kill people, but to destroy materials and disable the airfield.

>>33563430
They just proxy up, newfag

>>33562849
nothing will happen

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>>33562849

Can someone give me a quick rundown on the tomahawk situation? I keep reading that half didn't strike their targets, or were airburst? I didn't think tomahawks had an airburst function. I think I'm being shilled on.

Also doesn't Assad have point-defense CIWS systems like the Pantsir at his disposal? I'd think that slow non-stealthy tomahawks would be pretty easy for a system like that to down if they were defending that airbase.

>>33567025
Russians claim only 23 hit their target.

US news reports 58 out of 59 hit.

US is known to have shot 2 missiles per target to ensure maximum target destruction.

>>33567025
Based on pass successes, I believe the 58/59 number.
If only 30% 23/59 actually Worked, there would be a huge shit storm.

I work in aerospace, and if our parts had a 60% failure Rate, heads would roll.

>>33567355
Pentagon reports a different number

60 Launched, 59 hit. 1 Failed midflight.

>>33567355

I'm aware that 30% success is nonsense, in that they failed or just missed. Just wondering if they were possibly intercepted.

Using an S-300 on a tomahawk seems like a waste of resources though, hence why I asked about the Pantsir.

>>33567400
Unlikely they were intercepted. If they did we would be hearing so much meowing about "muh air defenses, muh s300"

So far reports indicate a single S-300 system present and it was hit.

>>33567400
Tomahawks fly NOE and too fast for ADA systems, generally.

>>33563307
Well, they are non-stealthy subsonic tubes with stubby wings and a turbo-fan engine.
If they knew the approximate flight path, and with a bit of luck, they could hit them with any SHORAD / MANPAD System.

>>33567025
>Also doesn't Assad have point-defense CIWS systems like the Pantsir at his disposal?
No, he does not. Russians do. Russians are 150 km away from that airfield.

>>33563309
You realize that notifying them after the fucking missiles are launched is no different than them detecting them? The only reason that is even done (it's standard practice for situations like this genius) is because we don't want an escalation because they didn't know our objective

>>33563429
As opposed to
>missiles don't do shit
?

> hurrr half the missiles missed
> they barely even damaged the airfield

> closeup footage of the airfield on major news stations shows extensive damage and shit got fucked up
Really boggins the noggin

>>33567415
There was no S-300 there you mong. It was a SA-6 that was hit.

>>33562849
Wish we'd launch tomahawks on Swedens capitol buildings.

Everyone is their government deserves to die horrible deaths.

>>33563466
>vatniks not able to follow a conversation or understand english

not a real surprise tbqh

Ultimately it looks like there's not a lot of reason to panic about Iraq 2.0, yet.

I still think it's prudent to try and make it obvious to the Trump admin that the people who voted him into office definitely don't want to practice more failed Middle-East interventionism.

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>>33563295
haha benis :DDD

>>33562849
>Assad is threatening to lob Scuds into Israel
"You better stop destroying my sarin stashes, or I'll start a totally unprovoked and unwinnable war with a wealthy, well-armed country that's been salivating over my territory for decades!"

Terrifying. Assad is truly the greatest statesman of our time. How can the West ever hope to resist him?

>>33563382

But Glorious State Run Media of Russian Ministry Of Defense is all truth, right comrade?