{"id":33278,"date":"2018-04-10T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33278"},"modified":"2018-04-10T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:21:29","slug":"u-s-navy-destroyer-armed-with-tomahawks-arrives-off-syrian-coast-harassed-by-russian-warplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33278","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Destroyer Armed With Tomahawks Arrives Off Syrian Coast, “Harassed” By Russian Warplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Navy Destroyer Armed With Tomahawks Arrives Off Syrian Coast, “Harassed” By Russian Warplanes<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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As the situation in Syria continues to\u00a0escalate, guided missile destroyer USS\u00a0Donald Cook has weighed anchor off Syrian territorial waters, and is reportedly being “harassed” by low-flying Russian warplanes, which have buzzed the “Arleigh Burke” class warship at least four times according to\u00a0CNN<\/a>\u00a0Turk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of note, the Donald Cook has 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles on board.<\/p>\n

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It is claimed that the US Donald Cook-named destroyer left Cyprus ‘s Larnaca port and landed near Syrian territorial waters. It was claimed that the missile destroyer named “Arleigh Burke” class Donald Cook (DDG-75) reached Tallus 100 kilometers and had 60 Tomahawk fuses on board<\/strong>. –CNN Turk (translated)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Navy source confirmed the deployment with the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>, who said that the guided-missile-destroyer had just completed a port call in Cyprus, while the Pentagon reportedly draws up plans for how to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n

U.S. military planners have drawn up more than one option for possible military action against Syria, including a strike similar to last year\u2019s attack in which 59 sea-launched cruise missiles inflicted heavy damage on a Syrian Air Force airfield in Homs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the options now are similar to those presented to President Trump after last year\u2019s chemical attack in northern Syria that killed and injured hundreds of civilians, including women and children.<\/p>\n

But officials said the president could decide to choose a more robust option this time, given that Syrian President Bashar Assad didn\u2019t seem to get the message last time. –Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is surprising is that according to the latest Stratfor naval map, there was no other major naval support – either amphibious or carrier strike groups – in the vicinity of Syria as of April 5.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Navy Destroyer Armed With Tomahawks Arrives Off Syrian Coast, “Harassed” By Russian Warplanes As the situation in Syria continues to\u00a0escalate, guided missile destroyer USS\u00a0Donald Cook has weighed anchor off Syrian territorial waters, and is reportedly being “harassed” by low-flying Russian warplanes, which have buzzed the “Arleigh Burke” class warship at least four times according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[694,776,19743,827,19742,4318],"class_list":["post-33278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-tomahawk-cruise-missiles","tag-united-states","tag-use-donald-cook","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33279,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions\/33279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}