Originally Posted by
Herod
Astonishing pair of pictures on the front of today's "Times" Before and after of the Barzeh research centre. The site is totally destroyed, but it looks as if the perimeter fence might still be standing. The trees lining the road are still there. Now that's precision.
This is strange indeed and seems not to fit the announced numbers. More than 15 Tomahawk per building (equivalent of 6-7 tons of serious, not improvised, explosives) would eliminate everything around, as there were not underground explosions - buildings "are ordinary civilian boxes". This only means that not all 100+ missiles hit them, but much less.
For those really interested, here are recent numbers from Russian MOD per SAM complex used:
Pantzyr: 25 missiles fired, 23 targets hit
Buk: 29 and 24
Osa: 11 and 5
C-125: 13 and 5
Strela-10: 5 and 3
Kvadrat: 21 and 11
C-200: 8 and 0
C-200 (SA-5 in NATO classification) is the main loser and this is not a surprise. It was designed (in early 60's) to deal mainly wih airplanes, and Syrian crews were probably not enough trained to work on CM.
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