Two missiles that were used in the US and their allies' attack on targets in Syria on April 14, but failed to achieve their targets (a Tomahawk and a surface-to-air missile), are in Moscow for study. The data from their study will be used to modernize Russia's weapons systems, said today the head of the operations department of the Russian General Staff, Colonel Sergei Rutskoi.
"A number of missiles failed to achieve their targets, apparently due to some technical errors, posing a threat to civilian targets resulting in the death of civilians," Rutskoi said, adding that "two of these missiles, including a Tomahawk missile and "A high-precision air-to-surface missile was flown to Moscow." He even presented the findings on a slide, and told reporters: "You can see the head of the Tomahawk missile on the slide."
The General Staff showed reporters parts of the missiles. "There are evidence of US Tomahawk surface-to-air missiles and British-French surface-to-air missiles, SCALP and Storm Shadow," General Sergei Beznog, an anti-aircraft defense expert, told reporters. He added that large parts of the missiles themselves, as well as their engines and their steering systems via satellites are presented.
Rutskoi noted that parts of these missiles bore signs of cracks from anti-aircraft missiles, as well as construction code numbers, construction date and factory, as well as other items from which experts could easily identify who they belonged to. these missiles.
Sergei Rutskoi also said that the Russian General Staff carried out a detailed analysis of the strikes, which were carried out by the USA, Britain and France and identified traces of 22 missiles out of 105, as claimed by the US military.
He also said that there were no chemical weapons in the targets hit by the US and its allies and this fact is confirmed by the analyzes of samples made by Russian experts in the field of radioactive, chemical and biological protection at the research center "Barza".
He added that 30 of the 76 rockets officially announced by the United States and its allies were found at the research center.
No more than seven rockets fell, not 7 as the Pentagon claims, at the two Him Sinsar underground depots in Homs province, Rutchoi said, adding that this had been captured on a satellite image.