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To: Paul R.

Only if you buy the story being peddled. A large prefab tent and a few blast holes, with closeups to make sure you do not see that the Air Base is fully operational.

I have been in bombardments and seen a lot of collateral damage like that. It doesn’t hurt the mission capability of the unit at all.

Maybe the unit got real advanced warning, or short notice advance warning, but it would take a direct hit, maybe more than one, to hurt the people in the bunkers.


4 posted on 01/15/2020 7:51:54 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy
wbarmy :" ..it would take a direct hit, maybe more than one, to hurt the people in the bunkers."

True that, but according to the video, barracks were hit in several volleys.
Also the volleys were not simultaneous, but were timed out, with enough timing
to allow 'first responders' to be out looking for the wounded and assess the damage, when the next volley came in.
This seems to be a typical terrorist tactic to maximize casualties
That there were no fatalities was purely accidental.

7 posted on 01/15/2020 8:24:38 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: wbarmy

What are you stating “the story being peddled” to be? That Iran did a lot of damage, therefor we should be scared of them?

MY take* from the vid is that the attackers did not target “mission capability” — they targeted the area where the most people were, for political effect. Typical terrorist mindset.

*That’s a bit conditional. We really need to see a map of the base and a bit more perhaps — say, a 10 sq. mile area, to see where each rocket hit. For example, if all but one rocket hit in a loose group well away from buildings, etc., and one strayed over and hit the barracks, that’s one thing. If most of the hits grouped around the barracks and bunkers, that’s another. (Were BUNKER doors blown in?) Maybe the impacts were widely scattered. Listening to the soldiers’ comments, I lean toward several rockets hitting near the barracks & bunkers, but, maybe I am misinterpreting.


14 posted on 01/15/2020 10:53:52 AM PST by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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