you had a french frig ship in the med. all firing tomahawk missiles. of the 105 missiles fired, 75% were tomahawk missiles. it s 20 feet lodge. flies at subsonic speeds but very accurate. flies very low to the ground. very hard for air defense systems to pick up. it can do immense damage. you can see the range all the way out to 1,500 miles to keep you away from any russian air defense systems. it wasn t just a sea coalition effort. there was an air coalition effort. it looks like almost 40 now of these cruise missiles were actually launched from the air, sort of tomahawk missiles from airplanes and from b-1 lancer bombers, the jassm. the first time we think this has been used in combat. very, very effective. the u.s. officials are saying this operation is double the size of the mission in went. as you ve pointed out, these
power and air power can carry out that operation. it may take two, four, six weeks, we could do it. the concurrent risk is, do we force the russians into retaliating? they didn t unleash their what is that? if they had it was a different fight. what are those? the russians have on the ground a very tech know logically advanced defense system. radars are terrific. i doubt they can operate against our f-35 stealth fighters. i don t think they can operate again against jassm missiles. if they had, the range is 400 miles. if they had, we would have been forced to engage russian air defense. we would have done so successfully and killed a bunch of them. again, i think the national security council said, whoa, we don t want to go that far and