HOLY FUCKSTIX!
Lest anyone had the slightest doubt this was an orchestrated sham . . .
VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb, citing an unnamed U.S. military official, said the airfield’s runway was deliberately not targeted so Russian military efforts would not be effected.
The official also told Babb the Tomahawk cruise missiles used in the raid were precision, and not cratering, to minimize damage.
They didn’t use cratering munitions. They didn’t even use cratering munitions. They deliberately went out of their way to not harm the runway.
For those who don’t grok military, “cratering munitions” are bombs designed to penetrate down into a runway and blow big, deep, hard-to-repair holes in them. Runways aren’t roads. They are built deep and heavy because very heavy vehicles are traveling down them very fast and sometimes they crash down into them from the top. If you put a big hole in them, you can’t just fill it in with gravel and throw some asphalt over the top like it’s a pothole in a city street. At least not and sustain any kind of sortie rate. But doing that takes a bomb designed to penetrate through ferroconcrete and down into the substructure before exploding, preferably somewhere right on the centerline.
Not using them is the difference between punching a hole in drywall and knocking down a structural wall in a house, or between putting a big dent in a door and pouring sugar in a gas tank on a car.
They deliberately went out of their way to make sure that the big sixty bomb boom show didn’t render the airfield unusable by the Russians. Oh, and the Syrians.
Oh yeah, this is totally legit.