The Official Syria (and all things about it) Thread

[Risottia]

Apparently, about seventy five minutes ago, Russian air defence radars detected two "ballistic objects" launched toward the "eastern Mediterranean" from "the central part of the sea".

?

wat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AC20130903

From Euronews, it appears as if it was earlier this morning. Now it's 12.47 CET (11.47 CEST). So, some three hours and a half earlier.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/03/russ ... terranean/

Interfax news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying the launch was detected at 10:16 am Moscow time (08:16 CET) by an early warning radar station at Armavir, near the Black Sea, which is designed to detect missiles from Europe and Iran.

[Australasia]

Apparently, about seventy five minutes ago, Russian air defence radars detected two "ballistic objects" launched toward the "eastern Mediterranean" from "the central part of the sea".

?

wat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AC20130903

Eh?!

Couldn't be the US strike, now could it?

[Australasia]

Apparently, about seventy five minutes ago, Russian air defence radars detected two "ballistic objects" launched toward the "eastern Mediterranean" from "the central part of the sea".

?

wat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AC20130903

From Euronews, it appears as if it was earlier this morning. Now it's 12.47 CET (11.47 CEST). So, some three hours and a half earlier.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/03/russ ... terranean/

Interfax news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying the launch was detected at 10:16 am Moscow time (08:16 CET) by an early warning radar station at Armavir, near the Black Sea, which is designed to detect missiles from Europe and Iran.

In that case surely we'd have further news of it by now. Perhaps the detection was a false alarm?

[Beta Test]

Israeli military "not aware" of any incident

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-russia-defence-idUSBRE9820AC20130903

The article makes no mention of that statement.

At the top of the page it say something about the Israeli military.

Well it did. I don't know why it changed.

[Australasia]

Apparently, about seventy five minutes ago, Russian air defence radars detected two "ballistic objects" launched toward the "eastern Mediterranean" from "the central part of the sea".

?

wat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AC20130903

So, I guess that's the French acting up...

Lol. I rather doubt they'll run out of patience and jump ahead themselves like that.

[Costa Alegria]

The article makes no mention of that statement.

At the top of the page it say something about the Israeli military.

Well it did. I don't know why it changed.

RIA is now reporting that a contact in Damascus says that the objects fell into the sea.

[Srboslavija]

False flag op by Assad perhaps.

[Imperializt Russia]

Apparently, about seventy five minutes ago, Russian air defence radars detected two "ballistic objects" launched toward the "eastern Mediterranean" from "the central part of the sea".

?

wat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AC20130903

From Euronews, it appears as if it was earlier this morning. Now it's 12.47 CET (11.47 CEST). So, some three hours and a half earlier.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/03/russ ... terranean/

Interfax news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying the launch was detected at 10:16 am Moscow time (08:16 CET) by an early warning radar station at Armavir, near the Black Sea, which is designed to detect missiles from Europe and Iran.

FOREX was reporting the article at 9am GMT exactly, hence why I made the "seventy five minutes" remark.

10:16am Moscow time would have been quarter past six in the morning GMT.

[Beta Test]

It's a false alarm. If it was three and a half hours ago, we would know a lot more and we would know if anything reached Syria.

[Costa Alegria]

False flag op by Assad perhaps.

And how did you come to that conclusion?

[Costa Alegria]

It's a false alarm. If it was three and a half hours ago, we would know a lot more and we would know if anything reached Syria.

So now begins the short debate of what and who.

[Srboslavija]

False flag op by Assad perhaps.

And how did you come to that conclusion?

The inner CIA agent in me has been following Twitter reports.

[Imperializt Russia]

"Shot across the bows" by American warships?

[Costa Alegria]

"Shot across the bows" by American warships?

Obama isn't that stupid. And why waste the money on whatever it was that was fired?

[Risottia]

In that case surely we'd have further news of it by now. Perhaps the detection was a false alarm?

Doesn't seem likely that the Russians would be so stupid as to raise a false alarm there, they have nothing to gain from it but revealing the capacity of their Caucasus-based radar, which goes against the fundamental doctrine of Russia, that is, maskirovka.

It's either a false flag by the Russians (launch a couple missiles, make everyone get the impression a Western country or Israel did it), a Western sub commander who went off his rocker (but in that case the missiles wouldn't have fallen short), France or America sending a message "we're ready to attack", or (extremely unlikely) Iran pulling a stunt - iirc they had a couple of subs in the Mediterranean some years ago, right? But firing ballistic missiles, that seems out of question for them.

[Risottia]

It's a false alarm. If it was three and a half hours ago, we would know a lot more and we would know if anything reached Syria.

Russia says the missiles went down into the sea - they didn't reach Syrian territory.

[Beta Test]

It's a false alarm. If it was three and a half hours ago, we would know a lot more and we would know if anything reached Syria.

Russia says the missiles went down into the sea - they didn't reach Syrian territory.

Ok...It's a stunt by someone.

[Costa Alegria]

Doesn't seem likely that the Russians would be so stupid as to raise a false alarm there, they have nothing to gain from it but revealing the capacity of their Caucasus-based radar, which goes against the fundamental doctrine of Russia, that is, maskirovka.

It's either a false flag by the Russians (launch a couple missiles, make everyone get the impression a Western country or Israel did it), a Western sub commander who went off his rocker (but in that case the missiles wouldn't have fallen short), France or America sending a message "we're ready to attack", or (extremely unlikely) Iran pulling a stunt - iirc they had a couple of subs in the Mediterranean some years ago, right? But firing ballistic missiles, that seems out of question for them.

The Russians said that the missiles came from the central Mediterranean. That's about Italy, isn't it? And Iran doesn't have any submarines that are capable of launching any missiles. And the Israelis are saying that they don't have any knowledge of any launch taking place whatsoever.

[Imperializt Russia]

In that case surely we'd have further news of it by now. Perhaps the detection was a false alarm?

Doesn't seem likely that the Russians would be so stupid as to raise a false alarm there, they have nothing to gain from it but revealing the capacity of their Caucasus-based radar, which goes against the fundamental doctrine of Russia, that is, maskirovka.

It's either a false flag by the Russians (launch a couple missiles, make everyone get the impression a Western country or Israel did it), a Western sub commander who went off his rocker (but in that case the missiles wouldn't have fallen short), France or America sending a message "we're ready to attack", or (extremely unlikely) Iran pulling a stunt - iirc they had a couple of subs in the Mediterranean some years ago, right? But firing ballistic missiles, that seems out of question for them.

There's a gulf of difference between "ballistic trajectory" and "ballistic missile".

[Australasia]

"Shot across the bows" by American warships?

I rather doubt it.

[Imperializt Russia]

Doesn't seem likely that the Russians would be so stupid as to raise a false alarm there, they have nothing to gain from it but revealing the capacity of their Caucasus-based radar, which goes against the fundamental doctrine of Russia, that is, maskirovka.

It's either a false flag by the Russians (launch a couple missiles, make everyone get the impression a Western country or Israel did it), a Western sub commander who went off his rocker (but in that case the missiles wouldn't have fallen short), France or America sending a message "we're ready to attack", or (extremely unlikely) Iran pulling a stunt - iirc they had a couple of subs in the Mediterranean some years ago, right? But firing ballistic missiles, that seems out of question for them.

The Russians said that the missiles came from the central Mediterranean. That's about Italy, isn't it? And Iran doesn't have any submarines that are capable of launching any missiles. And the Israelis are saying that they don't have any knowledge of any launch taking place whatsoever.

We don't know where the missiles fell, it could have been out of Israeli radar coverage.

[Australasia]

The Russians said that the missiles came from the central Mediterranean. That's about Italy, isn't it? And Iran doesn't have any submarines that are capable of launching any missiles. And the Israelis are saying that they don't have any knowledge of any launch taking place whatsoever.

We don't know where the missiles fell, it could have been out of Israeli radar coverage.

Surely Israeli radar coverage extends over most of Syria at the very least.

[Costa Alegria]

We don't know where the missiles fell, it could have been out of Israeli radar coverage.

Depends on how much radar coverage Israel has.

[Imperializt Russia]

We don't know where the missiles fell, it could have been out of Israeli radar coverage.

Surely Israeli radar coverage extends over most of Syria at the very least.

If they fell into the sea, they didn't reach Syria.

[Australasia]

Surely Israeli radar coverage extends over most of Syria at the very least.

If they fell into the sea, they didn't reach Syria.

Well, duh, I was imagining it might have been the sea just off Syria.

So, where did it fall into the sea?

What a curious situation.