A lot of the usual boastful rubbish of CptBork, not worth to be answered, except for a part where I can give some useful information about the general limits of air defenses:
It only takes 1 missile to knock out an S-300 radar or battery, you think it's designed to stop alien invasions?
Which alien invasion? S-300 is there to defend the Syrian airspace against invasions.
If a single US plane will be shot, while clearly over Syrian territory, the US will not start a war. As they have not even retaliated against Iran shotting that drone. They will simply stop flying over Syria. And, in fact, the Russians will insist that the information about the plane will not be published, at least not from the Russian/Syrian side. The US reaction will be similar - there will be information about an accident during a training flight somewhere in Iowa, to explain the dead US soldier flying that plane, that's all. So that losers like CptBork will not even learn about this, and there will be no public pressure to shot back, it will be known only to those who have to know about this. (Iran shotting down the drone was made public by those who tried to force Trump to start a war with Iran, but Trump nonetheless refused to start it.)
And, no, you need much more missiles to knock out air defenses. There should be simply more than the air defense is able to shoot at the same time. This is what the Palestinians have done with the Israeli "Iron Dome", except that they have not used cruise missiles but cheap ballistic rockets, so that even shooting one costs Israel more than the Palestinians had to pay for rocket itself, and to show the world that it not only possible but easy to defeat the Iron Dome was worth the game. Of course, this works too with cruise missiles against S-300, if you use enough of them at the same time. But in this case, the financial aspect will be different. The cruise missiles are more expensive than what is used to shoot them.
Moreover, you also need prepared places for starting them. There would be US bases and US ships for them, but once the first missile started, they are legitimate targets and will be shot too. So, they will be enough for the first shot, and take out some of the air defenses active as the first defense. But that's all.
Can't wait 'til the US starts freedom of navigation exercises in Ukrainian waters too, they don't need your invitation for that either.
Don't even hope, they will not do this. If they enter Russian territorial waters, they will be shot, and the Russians do not need an invitation for shooting them too.
I don't know what you think is so amazing about these antiquated missile systems, you act like they were made in the US or UK or Germany or something.
Even S-300 is better than what the NATO has, S-400 is beyond reach for the NATO.
It costs the US about $100 million to replace that drone, it costs billions to replace all the missiles, warehouses and militias that the US and Israel have been steadily blowing up for the last 3 years.
You have no idea about the prices.
Israel is in Syrian airspace all the time, you don't know about it because:
1) Assad doesn't want to openly brag every time Israel hits a target and Putin can't do a damn thing about it, it's not good to embarass your suzerains.
It was there because Russia said from the start that this issue between Iran and Israel is nothing they care about. But somehow the Israelis trespassed some Russian/Syrian red line, after that an Israeli plane was shot. And after this, the Israelis shoot missiles from far away (Lebanon or Mediterranian Sea) instead of flying over Syria.
2) Russia doesn't have the technology to detect most Israeli flights, especially the F-35. You guys are simply out of your league on that one, you won't have a working combat capable stealth aircraft even in 50 years, although you might manage to create a sweet looking mockup that could be useful in a film blaming America for all your problems.
LOL, even the Yugoslav army was able to shoot US "stealth" aircraft. They said, after this, "sorry, we didn't know it was stealth". ;-)
The Russian fighters are better in almost everything except stealth, and stealth is something you need if fighting some Papuas or so with weak air defenses unable to see them.
Almost 9 years of fighting and Russia still can't win even after bombing every school and hospital in sight and creating 11 million refugees.
Learn to count, the Russians came 2015, and the war was essentially won last year. The remaining cleaning of Idlib is nothing decisive, the remaining terrorists have no longer any power to do something really dangerous, it is more a game of diplomacy than a real war now.
"Poddubnyy also revealed that his interview with the boy and his father had not been recorded in Douma, but in Damascus, the Syrian capital, near the Dama Rose hotel. When asked directly if the piece had been filmed on the grounds of the Syrian Army Officers Club, which is next door to that hotel, Poddubnyy said that it had not."
And here's the conversation where it's established why the reporter lied about his filming locations and contacts:
"No, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There is no way to film on those grounds with permission, it is part of the club. How much time have you spent making television around military facilities in a police state at war?"
https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/988821241875320833
It was filmed on the grounds of the Officers' Club, which are not accessible to the general public without explicit permission.
Nonsense, it is clearly visible that nobody asks for badges at the entry into the garden. The checks are made inside. Look at the pictures, they are public.
The report which first presented this interview used film footage from 2016 as attempted proof the attacks were faked, does that not strike you as a serious credibility issue?
Because I'm not aware of this claim, so I was unable to consider this.
And why are you so open to forming your entire world view based on like two or three staged interviews backed by misrepresented footage, but you don't find it the least bit strange when teams of international inspectors are denied access to the attack site after they've already made their own security arrangements, and when they conclude that sarin gas was used but Putin says no, you assume that Putin knows more about bombs and chemicals than they do?
LOL. The gas attacks are obviously faked, and cui bono is already sufficient to show this. BTW, they did not even claim that Sarin was used during the Douma attacks.
Your internet sources do nothing but push the same story already published by Russian state-owned mass media.
No, they are much more actual and much more precise. Russian journalism in the mass media is not high quality, as usual everywhere. They have only the advantage that they don't have to care about political correctness. And there are exceptions, in particular, war correspondents who really work on the frontline. In the past, such correspondents have been in the West too, I remember some of them working in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and they were together with the jihadists also quite close to the frontline. But actually there is no longer such journalism in the West.
Your hypocrisy has actually given me a great idea- since western societies lack the resources to gainfully employ all the criminals, why don't we do what Russians do and make our criminals the judges, police and bailiffs instead?
That has been implemented in the West long before it has been, after the crash of communism, taken over by the Yeltsin government for Russia too. But this is already long-forgotten past, in particular, the youth does not remember this time because they were too young.
But maybe Schmelzer you really are right about Russia shutting Syrian airspace off to the US and Israel.
You have misunderstood, this has not happened yet. The actual agreement is that the US coalition can fly East of the Euphrates. But once everything else is secured, and it is time to throw the US out of Syria, this cooperation may be stopped. And if the Israelis fly East of the Euphrates, nobody cares too. (In particular, if they fake that they are US planes, as they have already done.)
The Israelis actually shoot the Iranian things with missiles from outside. This is a good exercise for the Syrian air defenses. As explained above, if they use enough missiles, something will go through. Moreover, the Iranian sites are not what Syria cares about most. So, they are protected yet by S-200 level air defenses.
