Now that the dust has settled, how effective was the Tomahawk strike on Syria anyway? I have heard shills say that half the missiles missed, nobody was injured, and no actual damage occurred. But of course the shills don't have sources. Do you, Sup Forums?
Now that the dust has settled, how effective was the Tomahawk strike on Syria anyway...
Noah Foster
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Charles Turner
Trump, who is in no way affiliated with Russia, called Putin before the strike to let him know about it. Putin did of course not tell Assad about the strike, because they're not allies, and this was something Trump knew in advance. So everything is fine.
Aiden Perez
>how effective
RTN is way up so I'm good
Levi Stewart
Obsolete weapons that cannot deal with heavy ECM situation like in Syria.
More would have been shot down if it weren't for the non-aggression agreement between Russia and the US, which has now been torn up.
They failed as precision weapons, as a swarming device with some potentially carrying nukes, they worked THIS time they probably won't work next time.
Dylan Parker
>Russia not allied with Assad
Kek
Caleb Cooper
ISIS made significant gains in Homs as a result of the strike.
Jaxson Hall
proofs
Liam Rogers
also need proofs
Thomas Williams
One malfunctioned due to some kind of engine failure, the rest hit their targets.
Easton Gutierrez
>The missile knows where it is based on where it isn't.
>The missile knows where it isn't based on where it was.
>However the missile does not know where it will be, only where it isn't.
Hudson Rivera
proofs?
Owen Myers
>compares stored image with infrared image of target
The fuck? You need previous footage? lool.
Isaac Phillips
Originally their guidance system was based off maps. Basically, the US used spy satellites and spy airplanes to make radar maps of everywhere on Earth. These maps were then stored electronically on ships, and would be loaded into the weapon's guidance computer before a mission depending on which maps were important. Then the missile would launch and use its own radar system to take images of where it was, and compare that to the maps loaded in the computer. In this way, very sophisticated flight plans could be created and followed with a relatively high degree of precision.
Of course, that was before GPS, which turned out to be so much simpler and more precise that the old guidance system was abandoned.
Bentley Moore
There are standard IR profiles stored. So the missile won't confuse, say, a tank with a house. But really what it's for is not getting confused and defeated by IR flares that are commonly used for missile defense.
Jose Sanders
Nvm. Ofc it makes sense. It adds redundancy. Also they might be susceptible to jamming which would make the GPS useless.
Joshua Hall
I think I read that gps doesn't work over a certain speed so it can't be used for missile guidance.
Any idea?
Oliver Sanchez
Yes goy 5 independent guidance systems failed to precisely deliver the missiles to their target.
Henry Bennett
Your source:
>It is believed the ISIS assault has not yet made any territorial gains
Jacob Long
That has to do with the receivers. Civilian GPS transceivers are required to be manufactured with a special circuit that will burn out the unit about 600 miles per hour, or roughly how fast jet liners travel. That is because the government was worried about technology proliferation becoming weapon development. It was deemed by the military that there could be no legitimate civilian use of a GPS going faster than that, and when President Clinton opened GPS for the public to use (it was originally a military project, remember) that was part of the stipulations.
But military GPS units can of course travel a lot faster than that.
Wyatt Ortiz
Cool. Cheers for the info.
Does the circuit literally burn out or would it be ok when you slowed down if a civilian device reached the speed?
Wyatt Hill
No, it burns out. The unit is physically destroyed, or "bricked," when it's triggered.
Leo Rivera
Microwaves travel at the speed of light.
Julian Brown
the guidance was based on inertial navigation. with the maps being used for mid trajectory updates. inertial navigation is shit for accuracy and poorly suited to slow, long range weapons. although it is one of the few (only?) guidance systems that is jam proof. which is why icbm's use it, with star map updates. the end of the world will literally be guided by the stars (also jam proof).
Ryan Price
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See for yourself
Asher Myers
tercom is not ins.
Ian Stewart
>microwaves
think you mean radiowaves bud
Eli Allen
Anyway, I got the limits wrong from memory. It seems it's 1,200 mph, and 60,000 ft maximum.
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Leo Martinez
Microwaves are radio waves. Doesn't matter, they all travel at light speed.
Eli Fisher
>liveleak.com
Red propaganda.
>uuuh I had better pretend I was wounded... lemme put a bandaid on my face.
I wouldn't believe the first thing of that "report."
Dominic Martinez
no, it's used to update ins.
en.wikipedia.org
Ayden Jones
Kek. Why would they do that? Why not stop making missiles with ins instead of using a better technology to update a shittier one?
Nathan Reyes
Your source doesn't say that.
Nolan Cruz
But it does.
Evan Mitchell
>a better technology
well, that's the problem. you can't laser guide a cruise missile and gps is very vulnerable to jamming.
Julian Scott
it literally doesn't
Dominic Evans
>Based on comparison results the missile's inertial navigation system is updated and the missile corrects its course.
Carter Allen
tercom is more accurate than ins. Why keep ins?
Am I making some semantic mistake?
Isaiah Nelson
Most modern intercontinental ballistic missiles use star trackers to figure out where they are and where they are pointing
Nolan Reyes
You can't shoot down what you can't see -- they're under radar horizon right up until they're on you.
SA-11/17 at the perimeter of the airbanse can shoot down 4 at most per system.
60+ inbound is just too many.
Jacob Russell
I don't see why ballistic missiles wouldn't be better.
They can't be jammed, for one.
Lincoln Barnes
Mattis stated in presser yesturday that 57 of 59 missles hit intended targets.
Ryder James
>star trackers
like how maoris used to navigate the south pacific on their sea faring canoes?
Parker Rivera
>Tomahawk
I notice our Indians or at least the white progressives who volunteer themselves as their spokeman do not say anything about us naming our military arsenal after them.