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Originally Posted by mapuc
If the allied have to send fighters and bombers into Syria, do you think that the Syrian air force could be threat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Air_Force
and not to forget their air defense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Air_Defense_Force
Expect that most of the air defense and their air force may be heavy damaged after the tomahawk campaign.
But there after...
If I was Assad I would let the west bomb my old air force (MIG 21 and MIG 23) my modern air force I would hide very very deep under ground.
After this tomahawk campaign I would take every plane I have left from my old air force fleet and some of the new fighters load them with long range ASM(IF they have some) and AA-missiles
I'll do the same with my air defense. Activate it when the Allied fighters and bombers comes.
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Airforce is debatable, depends on how much of it is usable. Saddam had some good jets, but he decided to bury them all, presumably to avoid detection and destruction...but it also seems he forgot to dig them up again until after it was too late.
Air defence is fairly potent, the mobile SAMs will be harder to take out with TLAMs than the static launchers, but if they leave their radars on too long then a HARM will do the job.
That's not to say that it'd be a cakewalk, there's risk, there's always risk, if they put people over Syrian airspace then people may die, that is war after all, but there's only so much you can do with cruise missiles.