(April 20, 2017 at 2:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 1:35 pm)Jehanne Wrote: For starters, the Syrian base was partly operational within a few hours after the 59 Tomahawk missiles (nearly 3 times the blast of one MOAB) hit it (assuming that they all made it; at least one did not) and was fully operational within a day later.
Attacking an air base (which is likely ringed with SAM and triple-A defenses) with a turboprop that can't quite pull 400kts IAS empty, much less lugging 11 tons, is probably not a successful mission profile. You have to use the right weapon for the job.
Over a dozen years we've had those and not used them because the right target hadn't come up.
