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MJB, a quick glimpse on broadcast video showed what appeared to be an impact crater to the top of the shelter suggesting penetration before detonation.
Sputnik news agency have released a series of images from the base. Looks like some of the Tomahawks used were the TACTOM variant with the penetrating warhead? At lease one image shows the inside of one of the shelters with a hole in the roof. Obviously one shelter didn't receive a strike and the two Su-22 Fitters inside survived.
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Archive footage of Shayrat Airbase from April 2016. Fitters and Floggers based there.