The Syrian Civil War Update Thread

[Slimebeast]

mai said:

If we do believe open sources Syria got SAMs, new deliveries:
- Tunguska x 6, delivered by 2008
- Buk-M2E x 18, delivered by 2008
- Pantsir-S1 x 36 delivered by 2008, additional 6 systems by the end of 2013
- Strelets of unknown quantity, delivered by 2006 (this is basically a MTLB chasis with 6 Igla MANPADS mounted on it)
- S-125 Pechora-2M x 8, delivered by 2012
- Tor-M1, unknown quantity, unknown status
- S-300, unknown quantiry, to be delivered by 2014

Older stock:
- Igla MANPADS of unknown quantity, approx. over thousand
- S-125 Neva of unknown quantity, approx. over hundred (few dozens of them were supposed to go through modernisation to upgrade them to S-125 Pechora-2M, status unknown), thoug I doubt all of them are operational
- S200VE of unknown quantity, approx. few dozens
- Multiple older SAMs

Syria got ASMs, only new deliveries:
- Bastion-P x 2 or 4 , 36 missiles per system

Given current forces of 1st rank ships US Navy has got in the region, available Pantsirs alone could chew out every single Tomahawk they've got to offer -- it's relatively easy, subsonic target (there're multiple known precedents when Tomahawks were downed by portable systems not designed for the task) and more importantly there's simply not enough of them to create sufficient volume of fire.

Is it really that easy to intercept and shoot down missiles being fired from warships? I strongly doubt it. What's the typical shoot down rate with that gear? Doubt it's anywhere near 100%. And the Americans have lots of missiles they can fire rom those ships.