Russian involvement in Syrian crisis

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Russian MOD speaker Konashenkov: US SLCM strike on Al Shagrat AB in Syria was increadibly ineffective - only 23 Tomahawks from 59 launched have reached airbase but only few of them hitted the proper targets:
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Who said s400 are in Syria? Maybe s300 is.
US might have found a way to jam it?



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Russia sold the Syrian army with S-300, but there are still Russian crews. Probably it was decided not to exacerbate the conflict because the US army could retaliate against the air defense systems.
 

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One thing though ...

If it takes 25-60 tomahawks to target one airbase, how many Brahmos would be needed by us in a full fledged war with pak?
 

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Nothing less than 1000 for sure .. Plus the range of brahmos is very less compare to the Tomahawks with 1000 kms range .. So our ships and our TELs can only hit very few bases in PAK ..Brahmos may be more useful in destroying PN ships than land bases ...

One thing though ...

If it takes 25-60 tomahawks to target one airbase, how many Brahmos would be needed by us in a full fledged war with pak?
 

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Thats so much huge gap between fired and hit missiles..59 missiles fired and only 23 reached the airbase and in that also only few hit the targets .. Ha ha ha Looks like age is catching up with the Tomy .. Does Pakistan uses Tomahawk or did they reverse engineering with chinese any missile based on Tomahawk ?? then we are sure in for a treat they need to fire 100 missiles to hit one indian base ..

Any reason for this low number of accuracy from launched to target destroyed ?


Russian MOD speaker Konashenkov: US SLCM strike on Al Shagrat AB in Syria was increadibly ineffective - only 23 Tomahawks from 59 launched have reached airbase but only few of them hitted the proper targets:
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One thing though ...

If it takes 25-60 tomahawks to target one airbase, how many Brahmos would be needed by us in a full fledged war with pak?
2000 tomahawks fired from subs around the clock over 48 hours greatly weakened saddam and most of the defenses before a ground assault was launched on baghdad


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One thing though ...

If it takes 25-60 tomahawks to target one airbase, how many Brahmos would be needed by us in a full fledged war with pak?
Tomahawk: Subsonic with 2,500 km range.
BrahMos: Mach 2.8 with 450 km range.

I did not answer your question, but the data should add some value to come to a conclusion.
 

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Nothing less than 1000 for sure .. Plus the range of brahmos is very less compare to the Tomahawks with 1000 kms range .. So our ships and our TELs can only hit very few bases in PAK ..Brahmos may be more useful in destroying PN ships than land bases ...
how did you come to this conclusion?

Pakistan lacks quality air defence. if the indian ared forces undertook SEAD then India should need far less Brahmos to overwhelm them on their eastern and southern areas..??
 

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I didn't made any conclusion i just given a comparison .. USA Launched 59 and 23 reached the Target base and Few made the damage ..Now what happened to rest offcourse the obsolete syrian Air defence has surely intercepted few of them ..Now i read an article which was even Questioning the use of Tomahawks for this mission as the result is pathetic runway is intact . Hangars too not much damaged and most important the Air defence of the base was not taken out . So Flights resumed from the base again today for bombing ..

Now coming to our scenario with pakistan has some kind of air defence but not ones which can stop Brahmos .. But what s important here is they will get something from the chinese sooner or later which will give them an Air defence to counter our Brahmos attacks ..pakistan they have their Missiles in TELs now that needs lot of numbers from our side to attack them .. So 1000 is a reasonable number if its a long war anything above 10 days if it drags ...

how did you come to this conclusion?

Pakistan lacks quality air defence. if the indian ared forces undertook SEAD then India should need far less Brahmos to overwhelm them on their eastern and southern areas..??
 

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