OT Syrian Airstrike

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Olefin

Have a feeling the planes that got hit in the shelters were operational ones - you could see that there were other planes parked around the area that were clearly non-operational that werent hit - i.e. why waste missiles on old Mig-21's that are rusting out in the open?

Maybe. I know that TLAMs are quite accurate, but I'm not sure that they're accurate enough to detonate in front of the open end of a particular one of those hardened aircraft shelters. If they were, none of those surviving aircraft in the photographs would still be there today.

@ArmySGT.: According to one of those articles I posted, there's some fear that the Russian SAM radars in Syria can detect, track, and target the B2. We probably don't want to risk the embarrassment of losing one of them. AFAIK, we only have about 20 total.