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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,301 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:45 PM Dec 2019

Russia Got Its Hands On A U.S. Tomahawk Missile In Syria (And Plans To Counter Them)

Key point: If it’s just a question of jamming the Tomahawk, then the United States will modify the missile’s systems to compensate for that jamming.

Here’s a tip: if you don’t want the enemy to capture your weapons, then don’t use them.

But if you’re afraid to use them because they might be captured, then what are good are they?

Russia is crowing that it has recovered America’s Tomahawk cruise missiles that were launched in Syria but failed to explode. Russian officials have promised that examining two unexploded Tomahawks, salvaged by the Syrians and turned over to Moscow, would enable Russia would develop new jamming equipment. “Having this missile in hand, we can clearly understand what channels of communication, information and control, navigation and range finding it has. . . . And knowing all these parameters, we will be able to more effectively counter these cruise missiles at all stages of their combat deployment,” said Vladimir Mikheev, an adviser to the first deputy general director of Russia’s state-owned KRET electronics group.

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-got-hands-u-tomahawk-220000784.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

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Russia Got Its Hands On A U.S. Tomahawk Missile In Syria (And Plans To Counter Them) (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2019 OP

We should shove a Tomahawk right up Pootie's ass. roamer65 Dec 2019 #1

Hear, hear. onecaliberal Dec 2019 #2

He is a murderous dictator. 3 or 4 years ago when I said that I took shit from even liberals. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2019 #3

Yeah. We should. nt coti Dec 2019 #4

true. rockfordfile Dec 2019 #8

I want to see a well placed Tomahawk bomb Putin's Internet Research Agency into the stone age. Initech Dec 2019 #14

And Iran was successful in Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #5

I think a refund is in order. OneBro Dec 2019 #6

the president is the greatest threat to our national security spanone Dec 2019 #7

Uhmm...we've been using the Tomahawk for roughly fifty years now pecosbob Dec 2019 #9

The Tomahawk was first deployed in the early 1970s ripcord Dec 2019 #12

Yeah...I was on a Navy ship in the seventies when they were deployed and had to guard them pecosbob Dec 2019 #13

"Failed to explode" ck4829 Dec 2019 #10

Another gift for Putin. kairos12 Dec 2019 #11

roamer65

(36,747 posts)

1. We should shove a Tomahawk right up Pootie's ass.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:48 PM

Dec 2019

FUCK RUSSIA.

onecaliberal

(32,928 posts)

2. Hear, hear.

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:50 PM

Dec 2019

Eliot Rosewater

(31,126 posts)

3. He is a murderous dictator. 3 or 4 years ago when I said that I took shit from even liberals.

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 11:05 PM

Dec 2019

Hopefully there is no confusion now.

People in Russia live under a dictator who takes all their natural resources for himself and his buddies.

coti

(4,612 posts)

4. Yeah. We should. nt

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 11:13 PM

Dec 2019

rockfordfile

(8,708 posts)

8. true.

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 02:59 AM

Dec 2019

Initech

(100,108 posts)

14. I want to see a well placed Tomahawk bomb Putin's Internet Research Agency into the stone age.

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 01:06 PM

Dec 2019

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. And Iran was successful in

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 11:27 PM

Dec 2019

hacking into and landing one of our better Drones a few years ago. Way to go Moscow Don,you failed once again to protect one of our frontline Offensive Weapons.

OneBro

(1,159 posts)

6. I think a refund is in order.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:06 AM

Dec 2019

Taxpayers should get a refund if the damn thing was essentially an expensive rock dropped from the sky.

"With an estimated cost of $1.4 million each, Raytheon’s Tomahawk missile has an intermediate range of 800 to 1,553 miles and can be deployed from more than 140 U.S. Navy ships and submarines. What also makes the Tomahawk exceptionally lethal is its capability to carry a 1,000-pound conventional warhead which can be reprogrammed midflight." https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/syria-airstrikes-cost-to-us-taxpayers.html

spanone

(135,900 posts)

7. the president is the greatest threat to our national security

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:08 AM

Dec 2019

pecosbob

(7,545 posts)

9. Uhmm...we've been using the Tomahawk for roughly fifty years now

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 10:52 AM

Dec 2019

minus some odd upgrades I would be very surprised if the Soviets (when they were still the Soviets) didn't know it's design inside-out. It's like they're just making this statement for PR value.