Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks kill hundreds'

[Oberon]

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.

Markus

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.

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

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.

, and only so much you can do from the air in general.

[mapuc]

When reading my friends posting on FB and reading the news I understand that there are a great fear that it could spread the war to the whole middle east and maybe a war between Russia and the west. I guess they got this fear by reading some of the international news

To those people I say do not fear

Yes some politician/militarian from Iran may say so and so and some other from that area may so this and that- That's typical middle east rhetoric

This is what's going to happen when such an attack have been made

Some pro Assad groups may send some mortar and rockets into Israel we can expect an increase of rockets and mortar from Palestine areas

Russia and China is calling their ambassador home for consultation-they will however be back after a few days or so

That's what going to happen

Iran would not be that mad and jeopardize their enrichment of uranium, by attacking Israel. Israel is just waiting for an excuse to attack Iran.

The iranian leader would of course speak with big words and calling for a crusade against Israel.

That's the most plausible outcome.

Markus

Originally Posted by August

, and only so much you can do from the air in general.

What's the old saying?
You don't own the ground until you put boots on it.

[Mittelwaechter]

“The terrorists are trying to push the Christians out of this area,” said Isan Bahri, the 44-year-old owner of a mechanical shop in the Kasaa district of eastern Damascus that the rebels have been trying to capture. “They are not shooting at the army, they are intentionally aiming for civilians.”

http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-e...nsing-1.236246