Originally Posted by
goldenequity
@/Partisangirl
Pentagon launching probe on US missile failure in Syria after a video emerged of Syrian air defence shooting their missiles down.
Pentagon Is Concerned About Results Of Syria Strike, Prepares To Launch Internal Probe – Sources
https://southfront.org/pentagon-is-c...probe-sources/
(bububuh..wat bout the lockheed stockholders????)
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If the above is true and an internal Pentagon 'probe' has been ordered....
then this is the obvious and reasonable analysis:
►48 hours after Western missile strike, undamaged Syrian air force resumes its operations
http://theduran.com/48-hours-after-w...es-operations/
A military strike that has no effect whatsoever on the country which it is supposed to be attacking
is or should be an object of bafflement.
The Western powers will no doubt say that the intention of the military strike was not to damage the Syrian military
but to damage Syria’s ‘chemical weapons capabilities’.
Even if that is true, how the destruction of a few empty buildings would achieve that objective I am completely unable to see.
The alternative explanation is that the military strike was more ambitious
than the US and the Western powers are admitting,
and that the reason the Syrian air force and the Syrian military were untouched by it
is because it was a failure.
The Russians and the Syrians claim that 71 out of the 105 missiles the Western powers launched at Syria were shot down by Syria’s air defense forces
and that
the major focus of the air attack was not the undefended civilian buildings which were destroyed,
►but Syria’s air bases,
and that this part of the attack – which was the main part – utterly failed.
Here is a supposed breakdown of the missiles which the Syrian air defense supposedly shot down
and of their intended targets provided by someone who calls himself “Bundy” on its twitter feed
https://twitter.com/igybundy/status/985156619209183232
There is a very large discrepancy between the Russian Ministry of Defense report of strike
and the description in the Pentagon briefing on the strike.
According to the Pentagon only three places related to non-existing Syrian chemical weapons were targeted:
This combined military strike was directed against three distinct Syrian chemical weapons program targets.
In summary, in a powerful show of allied unity, we deployed 105 weapons against three targets.
It does not make any sense
to send 35 cruise missiles against each of those not hardened, not defended targets like the now destroyed Barzeh research center
which was a small two story building complex and had been declared free of chemical weapons and weapon research by the OPCW.
Why
would the U.S. military use such a high number of precision weapons against only three targets?
This is extremely unusual and does not make sense at all.
The Russians, as well as other sources on the ground, report in detail of many more targets:
►Four missiles targeted the Damascus International Airport;
►12 missiles – the Al-Dumayr airdrome, all the missiles have been shot down.
►18 missiles targeted the Blai airdrome, all the missiles shot down.
►12 missiles targeted the Shayrat air base, all the missiles shot down. Air bases were not affected by the strike.
►Five out of nine missiles were shot down targeting the unoccupied Mazzeh airdrome.
►Thirteen out of sixteen missiles were shot down targeting the Homs airdrome. There are no heavy destructions.
►In total 30 missiles targeted facilities near Barzah and Jaramana. Seven of them have been shot down.
At least six airports were targeted according to the Russian report.
The Pentagon reports no strike on Syrian airports...
but claims to have launched way too high of a number of cruise missiles for each of the claimed three targets.
So...
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The Syrian opposition outlet SOHR reports of eight targets and says that at least
65 of the cruise missiles were downed by the Syrian air defenses.
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The Russians say
71 were shot down
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the Pentagon says
none of its cruise missiles were hit.
At least three other sources confirm the Russian version of events.
The Pentagon is lying.
The attack was a U.S. attempt to disable the Syrian air force by destroying its airports.
It failed and the Pentagon is hiding that failure.
Will the U.S. media report this discrepancy?
To which I would merely add that if the missile strike was as big a debacle as Russian and Syrian reports claim it was,
then the Pentagon will certainly know of it,
and the failure of the strike will be the cause of huge dismay to the senior officers of the US military.
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