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Syria fired missiles for 40 minutes after Israeli strike, hitting Russian plane
2018-09-22
[IsraelTimes] Israeli army report finds massive uptick in Syrian anti-aircraft barrages during IDF attacks, in hopes of repeating the downing of an IAF F-16 in February

The Israeli report into the downing a Russian plane off the coast of Syria during an Israeli Arclight airstrike on Monday runs some 40 pages in English and Russian and shows that Syrian anti-aircraft batteries fired dozens of barrages indiscriminately for 40 minutes after the initial Israeli attack.

In a highly unusual move, the IDF acknowledged the airstrike and released some of the findings of its initial investigation, which concluded that Syrian air defense units fired without aiming and "did not bother to ensure that no Russian planes were in the air."
Posted by:trailing wife

#3   "Linebacker", author Karl J.Eschmann.

This is quite the read and describes the air raids over North Vietnam. In the end they were indeed reduced to launching missiles aimlessly.
Posted by: Roger29 Palms   2018-09-22 17:13  

#2  ...During Operation LINEBACKER II in 1972, the USAF started off taking losses - but by the end, they had gotten their ECM and AAA suppression to the point where the North Vietnamese were simply salvoing missiles into the air blind (no tracking or lock) in the desperate hope that they'd hit something. All they did, of course, was blow through priceless missiles that couldn't be replaced as fast as they were shooting them.

Looks like Assad's people are to that point.

Good.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-09-22 07:27  

#1  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-22 03:50  

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