I keep wondering if there isn’t a smoke and mirrors trick going on here. They keep telling us about the F-15’s and the F-16’s and then they go on from there.
What if we slipped in a few F-22’s and did the nasty act and then slipped them back out.
The fact is that no one except for our two governments know exactly what aircraft carried out this operation.
I think these stories may me a huge misdirection. While we are pondering these stories the Ruskies and the rest of the rag head world knows that we can have them any place at anytime. You can bet their collective pants are full by now. Somehow we have become invisible and there is nothing they can do about it. Ain't it sweet!!!!!
"What if we slipped in a few F-22’s and did the nasty act and then slipped them back out." The Syrian radar *did* track the F-15I's over Turkey, which is why the Israeli drop tanks were found so fast in that remote, rugged, rural terrain (because the drop tanks left a radar track to the ground).
It's that the Syrian systems didn't see the Israelis until *after* the IDF missiles were launched, and didn't hit any of the attackers even then, that makes a big deal.
That target was in deep Syria. Syria can't defend any of its airspace, clearly.