Brian is a very good source of military and technical issues in the Middle-East.
I agree with your layered Air-Defense description.
I remember the two attacks by Trump with Tomahawks from the East-Mediterranean US-Navy and how they failed.
About the first one in 2017 i speculated, based upon the known facts, that the Russians had been using Electronic Warfare (GPS take-over) from the North of Syria where they are based, to let more than half of about 60 Cruisemissiles drop into sea and only a few, directed more southward, hitting an airbase that had been evacuated before the strike (in a deal with Trump).
The second one in 2018 should have been a dummy attack (another deal Putin-Trump).
The so-called SARIN-sites were hit and appeared to NOT contain Sarin. The sneaky attempts to hit Airfields and other military Targets were mysteriously all missing their targets
https://open.substack.com/pub/marksleboda/p/a-critical-look-at-the-kursk-incursion?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
Real work on the failure of Putin's idiots.
Then hmmm.
https://open.substack.com/pub/slavlandchronicles/p/the-uaf-literally-saved-putins-smo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
LOL
Great work again.
Brian is a very good source of military and technical issues in the Middle-East.
I agree with your layered Air-Defense description.
I remember the two attacks by Trump with Tomahawks from the East-Mediterranean US-Navy and how they failed.
About the first one in 2017 i speculated, based upon the known facts, that the Russians had been using Electronic Warfare (GPS take-over) from the North of Syria where they are based, to let more than half of about 60 Cruisemissiles drop into sea and only a few, directed more southward, hitting an airbase that had been evacuated before the strike (in a deal with Trump).
->https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxTmphLWwAA9oV-?format=jpg
The second one in 2018 should have been a dummy attack (another deal Putin-Trump).
The so-called SARIN-sites were hit and appeared to NOT contain Sarin. The sneaky attempts to hit Airfields and other military Targets were mysteriously all missing their targets
->https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxTmrODX0AA2hH4?format=jpg.
I am certain, that the Electronic Warfare system that Putin brought to Iran is even much better...
Well... We will see...
Sander
I think you are right, I did not emphasize the importance of Russian EW enough.