This is a hardened aircraft shelter

[toomuchtime_]

It's practically immune to a tomahawk missile, which has low yield and low penetrating capabilities. There are several of these on the Shayrat Airbase.

If they did launch chemical weapons from this base, I guarantee you that all the aircraft stationed there were evacuated or housed in one of these immediately after.

The purpose of the strike was to destroy the airfield so Assad couldn't launch any more attacks from there.

 

[Lewdog]

60 rockets coming in with an average flight time of 14 minutes so you are NOT going to have time to hide shit.

WTF are you talking about? If this attack was carried out several hundred miles away, then it would of taken several hours.

And if a chemical attack was carried out from this airbase, then they would of hid the aircraft immediately after the attack. It's just common sense.

Why do you keep saying it was hundreds of miles away??? The airbase was on the sea...and the missiles were positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean.

 

[Billy_Bob]

It's practically immune to a tomahawk missile, which has low yield and low penetrating capabilities.

Depends on what warhead the Tomahawk is carrying. It can carry anything up to a W80 or W84 thermonuclear warhead with an equivalent yield up to 150 kilotons of TNT.

It can also hold the bunker buster... which is a 1,000lb warhead.. MOST ship based armaments are of this type as they are designed to hit steel plating. I would bet there isn't much left of those hardened aircraft hangers. IN about an hour satellite's will tell the tale.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Why do you keep saying it was hundreds of miles away??? The airbase was on the sea...and the missiles were positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Same reason he insists that the shelters shown in the OP are “practically immune to a tomahawk missile, which has low yield and low penetrating capabilities”—plain ignorance, or possibly lying. He's making stuff up, and putting it forth, in defiance of facts that are easily learned by basic Internet searches.

 

[Onyx]

The purpose of the strike was to destroy the airfield so Assad couldn't launch any more attacks from there.

This was a critical blow! It will be at least one week before they repave the runway.

 

[westwall]

It's practically immune to a tomahawk missile, which has low yield and low penetrating capabilities. There are several of these on the Shayrat Airbase.

If they did launch chemical weapons from this base, I guarantee you that all the aircraft stationed there were evacuated or housed in one of these immediately after.

Yeeeeeeaaahhh, no. The Tomahawk will hit the door. Even the unitary 1000 pound warhead will wreck whatever is inside. The shelter is good for overhead attack, but hitting the door is a game changer (the missile, even though not designed as a penetrator, will still punch a hole into a 1" steel plate, 3.5" if the hit is perfect.) The doors are not hardened. If they were they couldn't open them up to get the aircraft out. The Swedes DO have hardened shelters with hardened doors (they're built into the sides of mountains) but this type of shelter is toast.

 

[Onyx]

plain ignorance, or possibly lying. He's making stuff up, and putting it forth, in defiance of facts that are easily learned by basic Internet searches.

Nope, stating facts. I'm educated in this, unlike you.

 

[DarkFury]

60 rockets coming in with an average flight time of 14 minutes so you are NOT going to have time to hide shit.

WTF are you talking about? If this attack was carried out several hundred miles away, then it would of taken several hours.

And if a chemical attack was carried out from this airbase, then they would of hid the aircraft immediately after the attack. It's just common sense.

"Several hours"? Are you a moron? The projected flight time of a ICBM from Kansas to Moscow is only 4 hours! "Several hours"? damn.

 

[toomuchtime_]

The purpose of the strike was to destroy the airfield so Assad couldn't launch any more attacks from there.

This was a critical blow! It will be at least one week before they repave the runway.

And then another 20 minutes to blow it up.

 

[Onyx]

Yeeeeeeaaahhh, no. The Tomahawk will hit the door. Even the unitary 1000 pound warhead will wreck whatever is inside.

Nope. Tomahawk missiles are low yield and high explosive. They wont bust through several feet of reinforced armor designed specifically for that type of attack.

The uneducated are always under the impression that big explosion = big penetration. Reality check: It doesn't.

 

[westwall]

The purpose of the strike was to destroy the airfield so Assad couldn't launch any more attacks from there.

This was a critical blow! It will be at least one week before they repave the runway.

If they are competent they can get the runway operational again in less than 9 hours.

 

[DarkFury]

It's practically immune to a tomahawk missile, which has low yield and low penetrating capabilities. There are several of these on the Shayrat Airbase.

If they did launch chemical weapons from this base, I guarantee you that all the aircraft stationed there were evacuated or housed in one of these immediately after.

Yeeeeeeaaahhh, no. The Tomahawk will hit the door. Even the unitary 1000 pound warhead will wreck whatever is inside. The shelter is good for overhead attack, but hitting the door is a game changer (the missile, even though not designed as a penetrator, will still punch a hole into a 1" steel plate, 3.5" if the hit is perfect.) The doors are not hardened. If they were they couldn't open them up to get the aircraft out. The Swedes DO have hardened shelters with hardened doors (they're built into the sides of mountains) but this type of shelter is toast.

With 60 Tomahawks coming in they were NOT hiding aircraft they WERE shitting their pants!

 

[westwall]

Yeeeeeeaaahhh, no. The Tomahawk will hit the door. Even the unitary 1000 pound warhead will wreck whatever is inside.

Nope. Tomahawk missiles are low yield and high explosive. They wont bust through several feet of reinforced armor designed specifically for that type of attack.

The uneducated are always under the impression that big explosion = big penetration. Reality check: It doesn't.

Yeah, I know. A friend of mine builds them. I know EXACTLY what they can do and this type of shelter provides NO shelter vs. them.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

plain ignorance, or possibly lying. He's making stuff up, and putting it forth, in defiance of facts that are easily learned by basic Internet searches.

Nope, stating facts. I'm educated in this, unlike you.

Apparently you aren't.

 

[Lewdog]

Yeeeeeeaaahhh, no. The Tomahawk will hit the door. Even the unitary 1000 pound warhead will wreck whatever is inside.

Nope. Tomahawk missiles are low yield and high explosive. They wont bust through several feet of reinforced armor designed specifically for that type of attack.

The uneducated are always under the impression that big explosion = big penetration. Reality check: It doesn't.

Hate to tell you...but the Pentagon is already saying that the airfield is "Severely Damage" if not "Destroyed."

 

[Onyx]

Why do you keep saying it was hundreds of miles away??? The airbase was on the sea...and the missiles were positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Because it was. It is 317 miles between Cyprus and Syria, and we can assume it was undertaken at least several hundred miles west or south of Cyprus.

 

[Billy_Bob]

The purpose of the strike was to destroy the airfield so Assad couldn't launch any more attacks from there.

This was a critical blow! It will be at least one week before they repave the runway.

tell me, Most runways for larger air craft and military use are 3-6 feet thick and re-enforced... How do you suppose they destroyed the runways? The bunker is a zit on the ass compared to that runway.

 

[leftwinger]

60 rockets coming in with an average flight time of 14 minutes so you are NOT going to have time to hide shit.

WTF are you talking about? If this attack was carried out several hundred miles away, then it would of taken several hours.

And if a chemical attack was carried out from this airbase, then they would of hid the aircraft immediately after the attack. It's just common sense.

"Several hours"? Are you a moron? The projected flight time of a ICBM from Kansas to Moscow is only 4 hours! "Several hours"? damn.

It was 120 miles. They fly at 500mph.

 

[Lewdog]

Why do you keep saying it was hundreds of miles away??? The airbase was on the sea...and the missiles were positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Because it was. It is 317 miles between Cyprus and Syria, and we can assume it was undertaken at least several hundred miles west or south of Cyprus.

No, they specifically said "the Eastern Mediterranean." And even if it was, 300 miles for a missile that has an effective range of 1,000 miles is no big deal.

 

[Onyx]

Hate to tell you...but the Pentagon is already saying that the airfield is "Severely Damage" if not "Destroyed."

The airfield was 'severely damaged.' Not the airbase. Not the aircraft. They probably just messed up some concrete.

By the way, the pentagon is wrong 100% of the time in its first public intelligence briefings. This has been the reality of the past few decades.