The UN Security Council MUST convene given the missiles today landed in Iran, not Syria..
October 7, 2015
Russia's move Wednesday (click here) to hit Syrian targets from more than 1,000 miles away using ship-based, long-range cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea was a dramatic display of military power designed to taunt the U.S., experts say.
"This was specifically done to show bravado ... it's chest thumping," said Christopher Harmer, a retired Navy officer and senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.
The Russians announced 26 missile strikes on Syrian rebels using a first-of-its-kind act of power projection, firing ship-based supersonic "Klub" missiles, roughly similar to American-made Tomahawk missiles and sometimes referred to as "carrier killers."
The Russians easily could have hit the same targets with the dozens of warplanes forward-deployed at their Latakia air base in Syria....
There are several variants of the Klub, including the India-Russia varient. They are anti-ship missiles.
The point 1000 miles allows these missiles to reach maximum speed for the impact that results.
This method Russia has taken is very expensive. Each missile is upwards of a million US. That doesn't necessarily apply to a communist country, but, they are suppose to be extremely accurate and still expensive.
I am not sure if the Russian missiles into Iran was a mistake. Are there advances by Daesh or otherwise in Iran?
Russia's move Wednesday (click here) to hit Syrian targets from more than 1,000 miles away using ship-based, long-range cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea was a dramatic display of military power designed to taunt the U.S., experts say.
"This was specifically done to show bravado ... it's chest thumping," said Christopher Harmer, a retired Navy officer and senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.
The Russians announced 26 missile strikes on Syrian rebels using a first-of-its-kind act of power projection, firing ship-based supersonic "Klub" missiles, roughly similar to American-made Tomahawk missiles and sometimes referred to as "carrier killers."
The Russians easily could have hit the same targets with the dozens of warplanes forward-deployed at their Latakia air base in Syria....
There are several variants of the Klub, including the India-Russia varient. They are anti-ship missiles.
The point 1000 miles allows these missiles to reach maximum speed for the impact that results.
This method Russia has taken is very expensive. Each missile is upwards of a million US. That doesn't necessarily apply to a communist country, but, they are suppose to be extremely accurate and still expensive.
I am not sure if the Russian missiles into Iran was a mistake. Are there advances by Daesh or otherwise in Iran?
