Western military strike against SyriaOn the night of April 14, 2018, the armed forces of the United States, Britain and France struck the Syrian Arab Republic officially as punishment for the alleged chemical attack on April 7 by the Syrian government forces in the Duma on April 7, 2018.
According to US official data, during the attack on Syria on the night of April 14, Western forces produced 105 cruise missiles, including 66 American ship cruise missiles Tomahawk:
From the missile cruiser US Navy CG 61 Monterey (type Ticonderoga) from the position in the Red Sea - 30 cruise missiles Tomahawk
From the US Navy destroyer DDG 58 Laboon (type Arleigh Burke) from the position in the Red Sea - seven Tomahawk missiles
From the US Navy destroyer DDG 76 Higgins (type Arleigh Burke) from the Persian Gulf position - 23 Tomahawk missiles
From the atomic multipurpose submarine SSN 785 John Warner (type Virginia) from the position in the Mediterranean - six Tomahawk missiles
From the two USS Rockwell B-1B strategic bombers operating from the Al-Udeid airbase in Qatar, 19 AGM-158B JASSM-ER (JASSM) cruise missiles (the first combat application of JASSM-ER missiles) were fired, launches were conducted over the eastern regions Syria, controlled by US forces.
The British Air Force fired eight launches of Storm Shadow aircraft cruise missiles from four Tornado GR.4A fighter bombers operating from the Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus.
France produced nine launches of Scalp-EG airborne cruise missiles from five Dassault Rafale fighters departing from the Saint-Dizier airbase from France and three launches of MdCN (SCALP Naval) naval cruise missiles from the frigate D 653 Languedoc (FREMM type) in the Mediterranean Sea (the first military use of MdCN missiles).
Thus, the main attacks on the territory of Syria were inflicted from the south and south-east directions. It is reported that the trajectories of missiles launched by American and French ships and French and British aircraft from the Mediterranean side passed over the territory of Lebanon.
According to US data, the attack was carried out in only three locations on the territory of Syria - the research center of the Syrian Defense Ministry in the Barz area of Damascus (it was used 76 US cruise missiles), supposedly a "chemical weapons warehouse" in the Homs area (used 22 cruise missiles, including nine American, eight British Storm Shadow, three French MdCN and two SCALP-EG) and a command center located near that "warehouse" (seven cruise missiles were used - all French Scalp-EG). As one can judge, all three goals were chosen from the list of objects that were associated with the Syrian chemical program before its closure in 2013 and were well known to Western countries during the work of 2013. In this regard, the relevance of all three affected facilities raises considerable doubts, and the Syrian personnel from there in any case was evacuated in advance. All three targets were declared as successfully hit, while the research center in Barz in Damascus, judging from video materials, completely destroyed.
Apparently, these three goals were also chosen with the conscious goal of removing from Russian military facilities in Syria and from zones of action of Russian air defense systems in Syria.
According to US statements, none of the participating aircraft and none of the cruise missiles were shot down by Syria's air defense. The Syrian air defense released, according to US data, 40 surface-to-air missiles, but without success and allegedly after the defeat of cruise missiles their targets.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that Russian air defense systems did not participate in repulsing the western attack and that no cruise missile of the enemy was within the zone of operation of Russian air defense systems. Having determined (even before the US official data on 105 cruise missiles released) the amount of air attack of Western countries in 103 units, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that, in his opinion, 103 sea-air and air-based cruise missiles, as well as controlled GBU aerial bombs -38 and air-to-surface air missiles. At the same time, it was stated that the Syrian air defense allegedly shot down 71 missiles from the produced 103. At the same time, the Syrian air defense system used the S-125, S-200, Osa, Kvadrat and Buk SAM systems (curiously, the Pantsir-C1 "were not mentioned in this list).
The Syrian Defense Ministry stated that as a result of the attack there were no casualties among the Syrian military personnel and that three civilians were injured.
It is interesting that the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that a number of Syrian airfields were attacked, but all the cruise missiles that attacked them were allegedly shot down by Syrian air defense. At a briefing on April 14, Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy said:
"The objective of the attack was, among other things, the air bases of the Syrian air force.The objective control data show the following: 4 missiles were fired at the airfield of Duvali, 100% down, Dumeir airfield - 12 missiles, all shot down (100 On the airfield of Blai there were 18 missiles, all were shot down (100%), 12 missiles were fired at the airfield of Shayrat, all were shot down (100%), and nine of the missiles fired at the unused Mezze airfield were shot down (55, 5%). Of the 16 missiles at the Homs airfield, 13 (81.25%) were destroyed, no serious damage is observed at this facility.
30 missiles were involved in a strike against objects in the vicinity of the settlements of Barz and Jaramani. Of these, seven missiles were shot down (23.3%). These objects, allegedly related to the so-called "military chemical program" of Damascus, are partially destroyed. At the same time, they have not been used for a long time, there were no people and equipment on them. "
On the
bmpd side, we note that, since the US side in general denies the attack on the aforementioned airfields, the tremendous 100 percent efficiency of the Syrian air defense for their protection finds a very easy explanation. In general, in our opinion, the information about the allegedly shot down 71 Syrian air defense cruise missile is obviously overstated (most likely, many times) and can not be taken seriously, especially in light of the overall total obsolete nature of most of the material part of the Syrian air defense forces.
Among other statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense, mention should be made of its denial of the participation of French aviation.
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