already said about the deconfliction channel with the russians, a multi-level, robust communication we have deployed for some time. i m not able to give you more information on a particular conversation. what was the second part of the question? the military balance of the civil war. does assad s regime i think the strikes were targeted to send a message and i think they were successful in achieving that military objective. i want to get to someone who hasn t spoken. thank you, dana. follow up on the question of mission accomplished. if the mission is to deter president assad from producing from spreading chemical weapons, is it possible to know whether that mission, as described, was accomplished? last night, operations were successful. we met all of our objectives. we hit all of our targets,
deployed, eight storm shadow missiles, three naval cruise missiles. this target was attacked by all coalition forces. our tomahawks, the british storm shadow and the french missiles went against it as well. against the third target, the bunker facility, we deployed seven scalp missiles. i would like to talk about the specific platforms that were part of this strike. let s go back to the first slide, please. the missiles i have described were delivered from british, french and u.s. air and naval platforms in the red sea, the northern arabian golf and eastern mediterranean. all weapons hit the target close to the designated time on target at 4:00 a.m. in syria, 9:00 on the east coast. i m going to give you more details about the platforms.
to your first point, last night operations were successful. we hit the site, the heart of the weapons program. it was mission accomplished. give me your second part. the authorities question. if there are future strikes, does the same process go to nfc, what is the process now? as it has secretary said last night, the president has it has authority under article ii to defend u.s. interests and national interests. i m not going to speculate on anything that happens in the future. this was a fully legitimate operation. ryan? general mckenzie, did chairman of the joint chief communicate in the days and hours leading up to the strike and then, in addition, do you assess this is fundamentally changed the military balance of the syrian civil war or is the assad regime maintaining its advantage? i go back to the things i
hearing on the ground in that regard? reporter: the phrase that leapt out at me is when general mckenzie said precise, overwhelming and effective. he spelled out in great detail why it was effective. he said the barzah research facility, 76 missiles fired at it. it doesn t exist anymore. a storage facility outside of homs. u.s. and french ships used u.s. and french warplanes used. an overwhelming list of none of the coalition aircraft were successfully engaged. russian air defenses were not deployed. he is confident all missiles reached their targets, no agreements beforehand and no syrian weapons had any effect. the 40 that were fired were largely ineffective. no missile was shot down.
chlorine. is that a new red line? it s important to understand the assad regime has a pattern of using chemical weapons used against its own people. despite the fact they agreed to it and despite the fact that the russians were there. what happens next has everything to do with what the assad regime decides to do and everything with what the russian government decides to enable as well. stephanie? thanks. why does the administration touched on this, but why does the administration feel these strikes are enough to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. i ll pass it to the general in a second. we were very method cal in making the decision about these sites. it was a deliberate decision to go to the storage facilities, to go to the research and