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| Reports: Syrian air base destroyed in missile attack from sea |
| 2013-10-31 |
| Unclear who is behind the attack on base located in stronghold of Assad's Alawites, but Syrian, Lebanese media accuse Israel; Lebanese media reports IAF planes flew over southern Lebanon on Wednesday night. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 These things happen. No big deal. Best to worry about the coming reduction to FOOD stamps. 16 meals a month lost... o' heartless, o' me, o' myo, gonna have great fun on the buyYo.... wait, wrong blog, sorry. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-10-31 18:10 |
| #6 Clearing a path toward Iran? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-10-31 17:38 |
| #5 linker. Was that before or after? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2013-10-31 15:01 |
| #4 "Channel 2 reports attack's target were S-125 surface-to-air missiles. ... Satellite images of the area obtained by Channel 2 show the Russian-made Neva missiles, as well as a SA-3 missile battery, that also includes a command center with a radar to track the missiles' targets and broadcasting anthenas to track the missiles as they are launched. The missiles have a range of 35km. and a 70k. warhead." |
| Posted by: linker 2013-10-31 12:33 |
| #3 tipover, If I read the article correctly--if it's written correctly--the AT weapons involved seem to be the guided type. Like a TOW, possibly even a Javelin. A pile of those would be more interesting than a pile of RPGs. 'course, the question is whether the article got the details right. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2013-10-31 11:31 |
| #2 If the IDF made this strike I suspect that there were more than just rpg's on site. Or perhaps it was defending a "target of interest" to the IDF. |
| Posted by: tipover 2013-10-31 08:36 |
| #1 Air base or air defense base? Why would either one have a bunch of anti-tank missiles? If it were AT missiles as targets, who's got tanks to worry about? IDF. OTOH, in 2006, the paleos had enough AT missiles to use them as anti-personnel weapons, at least at strong points or groups of IDF soldiers. Rebels don't have tanks. IOW, not much beef to this report. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2013-10-31 07:06 |