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Its somewhat ominous because at first sight it could appear more to be a demonstration of capacity to the US and NATO/ Europe rather than a particularly cost-effective or effect-justifiable weapon selection.If I was trying to be generous I could suggest Russia's relative lack of precision weapons (particularly with "bunker-busting" type warheads which one assumes the Kh-55 or KH-101 would be armed with to take out high-value fixed targets, like its US and European equivalents) as a potentially legitimate reason for using these cruise missiles. It was speculated that Russia's stocks of modern precision weapons wouldn't be particularly deep.To any ones knowledge has Isis taken over and is using many ex-Syrian regime command bunkers etc? (would appear counter intuitive as Isis would appear to be setting themselves up for attacks, particularly at this stage of the various air campaigns against Isis.).As for your reference to NATO countries weapon selection I can't really think of too many recent examples. The use of cluster bombs in Kosovo is the last I can recall, that conflict being a bit of watershed for NATO countries re: the universal recognition of the need for more advanced targeting pods and tailored precision weapons (for many Syrian civilians it will be a pity Russia didn't learn the same lessons as quickly) .
Its somewhat ominous because at first sight it could appear more to be a demonstration of capacity to the US and NATO/ Europe rather than a particularly cost-effective or effect-justifiable weapon selection.
If I was trying to be generous I could suggest Russia's relative lack of precision weapons (particularly with "bunker-busting" type warheads which one assumes the Kh-55 or KH-101 would be armed with to take out high-value fixed targets, like its US and European equivalents) as a potentially legitimate reason for using these cruise missiles. It was speculated that Russia's stocks of modern precision weapons wouldn't be particularly deep.
To any ones knowledge has Isis taken over and is using many ex-Syrian regime command bunkers etc? (would appear counter intuitive as Isis would appear to be setting themselves up for attacks, particularly at this stage of the various air campaigns against Isis.).
As for your reference to NATO countries weapon selection I can't really think of too many recent examples. The use of cluster bombs in Kosovo is the last I can recall, that conflict being a bit of watershed for NATO countries re: the universal recognition of the need for more advanced targeting pods and tailored precision weapons (for many Syrian civilians it will be a pity Russia didn't learn the same lessons as quickly) .
