Intanto non sono 59 quelli lanciati contro la base Siriana, sono 61, i 59 menzionati sono quelli che hanno superato la prua della nave per piu di qualche metro.
Il pentagono parla di base completamnete distrutta, SAM distrutti, 20 aerei inceneriti ecc.. ecc..
Pare abbiano distrutto 6 aerei fuori uso usati come ricambi, un radar, e poco altro, la base e' pienamente operativa, un bel successo.
La VERA storia del Tomahawk:
The failure of the Tomahawk is hardly surprising, because it has failed us every time we've used it it will fail us again the next time, too;
In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, 300 Tomahawks were launched at Iraq; 12 fell into the sea, half went off-course and never reached their target, some were shot-down by Iraqi air defenses, and most that his hard targets failed to destroy them as promised.
In Operation Deliberate Force in 1995, it took 13 Tomahawks to destroy a single command post, and this was the only use of the Tomahawk in that war due to it's cost and scarcity.
Another 75 were launched into Sudan and Afghanistan in 1998, in retaliation to Al Qaeda's bombings of US embassies. The targets in Sudan alleged to be chemical weapons factories turned out to be a medicine factory, while the Al Qaeda leadership the Afghan strike was meant to kill had left the targeted training camp only minutes before the missiles arrived. More Tomahawks went off-course, and several that failed to detonate were captured virtually undamaged.
330 Tomahawks were launched during Operation Desert Fox in December of 1998. Again, they landed all over the place --- one landed in a
neighborhood in the Al-Kadhimiah of Baghdad, killing 27 civilians
and wounding 37 more. That missile landed miles from it's intended target.
318 were launched as part of Operation Allied Farce (it was NATO that spelled it wrong, not me) in 1999. Again, tons of them went off-course, failed to explode, and some may have been shot-down. Three of them hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, and every Tomahawk in the entire US European inventory was expended.
50 Tomahawks were launched into Afghanistan in 2001, deliberately aimed at such valid military targets as the UN de-mining headquarters for Afghanistan, and a shortwave radio tower that had been inoperable for a decade.
A whopping 802 Tomahawks were launched in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, but contrary to promises that guidance systems improvements would make the Tomahawk more accurate (integrated throughout the 1990s, in the fallout from the GAO's findings from Desert Storm), their accuracy was even worse. Now they were not only landing in the wrong areas, but the wrong *countries* Tomahawk impacts were confirmed inside Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.




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