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    Was reading in an article yesterday that we used several of a new stealth air-to-ground missile launched from a couple of B-1B bombers in the attack. They apparently hadn't been used in combat operations before.

    I bet the attack cost us a lot more in missiles than it will cost them to rebuild the facilities.


    ETA: Link to article I read yesterday;
    Warship Ruse, New Stealth Missiles: How They Attacked Syria
    As the president addressed the nation at 9 p.m. Washington time, on Friday, a barrage of 105 U.S., U.K. and French missiles converged on Syria. They came from the Red Sea, the Arabian Gulf and the Mediterranean, homing in from three directions to overwhelm whatever missile defenses Assad’s regime might deploy. Russia’s more advanced air defense system didn’t engage the allied weapons.

    According to the Pentagon, the allied weaponry included 19 new “Extended-Range” stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Attack Munitions launched by two B-1B bombers based out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and six Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the Virginia-class USS John Warner submarine. The bomber-launched missiles, build by Lockheed Martin Corp., had never been used in combat.
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