FairAndUnbiased
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None of the cruise missiles in the 2018 Syrian attack were shot down. That’s simply a lie. In fact, US cruise missiles have proven to be extremely accurate and effective in past conflicts.
And they are much harder than ballistic missiles to shoot down. Ballistic missiles fly predictable trajectory arcs. US BMD has advanced considerably since the days of Desert Storm. The US routinely intercepts ballistic missiles in tests.
A subsonic cruise missiles speed means nothing when you can’t see and track that missile. Why do you think DARPA chose a VLO subsonic design for LRASM? Because it’s much harder to intercept. Supersonic missiles light up radar.
Ballistic missiles are predictable, cruise missiles are not.
US has intercepted cruise missiles itself since the 1980s with terrain hugging cruise missiles launched by Soviet naval aviation being it's first target. That's what AEGIS was invented for.
Ballistic missiles were an add-on later. The simple physics of the situation and the real world results in the Gulf War show this is true.
There's no evidence that the US strike in Syria inflicted any substantial damage. All we know is that for a supposed massive strike there were zero fatalities, yet the US has never cared in other cases about enemy casualties.