(Damascus) Last night Syria reported it had shot down 9 Israeli missiles aimed at a couple of its Military airfields, which was strange as they hadn't done even half a job of shooting down any missiles coming their way these past few years. Which hasn't been helped by how the grounded missiles they have paraded for the media have all been their own ordnance which have fallen back to earth.
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#Syria Photos of a missile being spread around this morning claiming to be one of the Israeli / Israel missiles shot down by the Syrian Air Defence yesterday pic.twitter.com/SvKLhS8tkF— Ivan Sidorenko (@IvanSidorenko1) 17 April 2018
data-conversation="none" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en-gb">Anyway back to last after doing so well against this latest attack, which was picked up by many western Media outlets, it has now cone out in the wash that actually the above attack was a false alarm caused by the US and Israel.
This picture is being shared as showing a by Syria intercepted American/British/French missile of the #SyriaStrikes. But it doesn't look like any of that. Instead, it strongly resembles a Soviet air-to-air missile, the AA-6 ACRID R-40. H/t @pfc_joker. pic.twitter.com/L4XHf3y59t— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) 15 April 2018
