TEEJWhy bother shooting them down when the reliability of those systems are just too low. 😀
Just 23 of the 59 reached the intended targets.
i.e 61% of the cruise missiles failed to reach its targets.
If we take the initial figure of 70 which was reported, it would be more pathetic.Probably even those 23 would not have reached the target if the target was much deeper.
How do you really know that only 23 out of 59 hit the target? You are relying on the claims of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Do you not think that is their job to discredit the attack and muddy the waters?
TEEJIf Assad really is behind this then all the logic goes out of the windows. There’s absolutely no reason to use chemical weapons in Idlib. I might believe if this had happened near Deiz-er-Zor. If there can be found a solid evidence that Assad made the decision, then he really is mad as a hatter.
Why does it have to be Assad that made the decision? Is he really in charge or just a figure head? Yes, such an attack is madness but what if it was a commander making that decision? Assad can’t exactly come out and claim that he doesn’t have full control and that such weapons are still in the inventory even in a small capacity.
TEEJSyria wont have chemical weapons because these weapons were removed under the supervision of OPCW.
They CW were verified by US Intel , Russians and OPCW before destroying , So much so SD then tweeted about the success of removing CW from Syria.
US or any other country did not complain to OPCW about the existence of chemical weapon to OPCW , These are verifiable treaty and OPCW can visit any time if any member nations complains about it.
Even if today US complains or suspects that Syria has chemical weapons at certain location it can lodge a complain to OPCW and Syrian/Russian would be oblige to Verify that.
Bottom line is there are no CW left over in Syria and if Obama felt all these time he was cheated in the deal he would have surely complained about it.
Syrian on the other hand had complained to UN/OPCW that CW chemicals are bought in syria via Turkey and other countries
That is rather silly logic. Put yourself in Assad’s shoes or his advisers? Do you really think that he is going to remove all his chemical weapons capability or the ability to produce them? It would be relatively easy for Syria to manufacture Sarin even in its most impure form. The OPCW could only verify what was disclosed. Gaddifi did the same and retained a stockpile.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/14/british-officials-help-libya-chemical-weapons
TEEJBreaking on CNN. 50 to 60 Tomahawks launched at Shayrat Airbase.
TEEJBye the way: thay are reporting about a strange smell, but according to U.S. CDC: “Sarin is generally odorless and tasteless”. Also the personnel treating people would like been long dead if it was sarin, because as you can see in published pictures, they were barehanded.
Incorrect. Why did you ignore the “generally” in the text that you quoted? Sarin can have an odor.
Odorless in pure form. Impure sarin can smell like mustard or burned rubber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
Industrial and Economic Aspects of Sarin:
Why poor quality is not an indicator of non-state manufacturePoint 2: Numerous odors were reported. High quality Sarin is odorless
Indeed. But this argument serves no great point one way or the other to tell who made
it. Pure Sarin is odorless. But lower quality Sarin, which can be produced by a large
state-run operation, will have impurities and decomposition products. The residual
acids will react to whatever the impure Sarin has been stored in. If a binary device was
used (see below), much of what may be smelled is precursors or byproducts rather than
the Sarin itself. Yes, there are many reasons why lower quality Sarin can smell funny.
But none of those reasons can be any kind of evidence to state that the Assad regime
didn’t manufacture it.
http://strongpointsecurity.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Sarin-Quality-and-Quantity.pdf
Your claim that the people assisting the casualties would be dead is also incorrect. About 30% of the first-responders and hospital personnel developed symptoms after the 1995 Tokoyo Sarin subway attack from secondary contamination. Ask yourself why the vast majority of those first-responders didn’t die?
TEEJYup, looks like it
No. As already pointed out it is a Royal Navy Merlin Mk2. You can see the radar housing under the nose.
TEEJThe WC-135 left RAF Mildenhall on the 13th March. Last noted on flight tracking software over Israel.
Video from Cambridge, UK.
Twitter link with WC-135 tracking info.
TEEJSo when was a harrier based on anything else than an air force base during those operations.
I’m pretty sure the Harrier works, but when has it ever worked on forward operating bases than another aircraft can’t use?
Nic
See following for USMC use of FOBs during Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
http://elementsofpower.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/f35b-agitprop-ala-sweetman.html
From AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Due to the potential for significant Taliban resistance, MAG-40 sought to capitalize on the Harrier II’s expeditionary basing capability and sought the AV-8Bs in support of the Marja operation. FOB Dwyer is located about 20 miles due south of Marja and at the time was the home of Regimental Combat Team 7.
At the time, Dwyer boasted and expeditionary runway that was only 4250 ft long and less that 100 ft wide. Only one attack jet in the world can take off from and land on a runway that short while carrying a full combat load- the AV-8B.
The use of FOB Dwyer by MAG-40 and VMA-231 completely validates the operational premise of the AV-8B. Marine Harrier IIs have certainly operated from austere FOBs in other conflicts, but VMA-231’s operating in support of the Marja campaign were unique because the runway was so short and Dwyer was located so close to the regiment assault.
TEEJThanks for this link, most interesting!
You are very welcome. 😮
TEEJThe implication being that there are no European aircraft capable of conducting such measurements?
British Aerospace Bae 146, registration G-LUXE, flew a mission that took it over Cherbourg, Northern France on the 16th February. Perhaps it was up sampling?
https://planefinder.net/flight/MET1/time/2017-02-16T16:45:00%20UTC#
https://planefinder.net/data/aircraft/G-LUXE
https://www.jetphotos.com/aircraft/BAE146RJ-E3001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWI8_IP3uRU
9th February.
Authorities have said there is no risk of contamination from an explosion that occurred at EDF’s Flamanville nuclear plant in northern France.
EDF said the blast at 9.40am on Thursday was caused by a fire in the turbine hall, which is outside the nuclear zones of the power station, located 15 miles west of the port of Cherbourg. Five people were treated for smoke inhalation.
TEEJThe implication being that there are no European aircraft capable of conducting such measurements?
The RAF VC-10s used to be fitted with a pod. It doesn’t appear that the RAF Voyagers took over the role after the VC-10s were retired.
During 2006 and 2009 the RAF deployed VC-10s equipped with the sampling pods to Okinawa after North Korean nuclear tests.
Footage of one of the pod equipped RAF VC-10s landing at Okinawa to assist the USAF WC-135.
See from 1:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-5ZsIFwIQ
Image of one of the pods fitted to an RAF VC-10 at Kadena. See following link.
Ground crew members work on a pod of a British Royal Airforce VC-10, modified to take air samples to check for radiation, at Kadena U.S. Air Force base in Kadena town on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa May 29, 2009. South Korea and the United States raised the military alert level for the peninsula on Thursday after the communist North warned the truce ending the Korean War was dead and it was ready to attack. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN MILITARY POLITICS)
TEEJThe WC-135 and RC-135 had completed their mission and had returned to RAF Mildenhall during 01 GMT (23 February)
https://twitter.com/EGUNnEGUL/status/834574660826193920
TEEJThe WC-135 so far hasn’t returned to RAF Mildenhall.
TEEJThe WC-135 is currently on a mission. It left RAF Mildenhall heading north around midday.
TEEJHmmm, these ones have it too…not sure it signifies an A2A victory in this case (unless we are talking makeshift rebel drones?)
Did not realize how many ground missions the Su-35s have flown though.
The Su-35s have also been involved in Tu-160/Tu-95 escort missions. Could the stars be a reference to those missions?
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