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from AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY:

There are new details of Israeli's attack on Syria that suggests the U.S. had knowledge of the event and perhaps some back-channel involvement. The Pentagon was monitoring the electronic emissions coming from Syria during Israel's Sept. 6 attack and, while there was no active Pentagon engagement in the operation to destroy a nuclear reactor, there was advice provided, say military and aerospace industry officials.
The first event in the raid involved slipping Israel's strike aircraft over the border into Syria without alerting the air defenses. The actual target, a nuclear reactor, was at Dayr az-Zawr. But the main attack was preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site at Tall al-Abuad near the Turkish border. It was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the Israeli force to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved.
Subsequently the whole Syrian radar system went off the air for a period of time that included the raid, say U.S. intelligence analysts. However, there was "No U.S. active engagement other than consulting on potential target vulnerabilities," says a U.S. electronic warfare specialist. Elements of the attack included some brute force jamming, which is still an important element of attacking air defenses, U.S. analysts say. Also, Syrian air defenses are still centralized and dependent on dedicated HF and VHF communications networks which made them vulnerable.
The analysts don't believe that any part of Syria's electrical grid was shut down. They do contend that network penetration involved both remote air-to-ground electronic attack and penetration through computer-to-computer links. "There also were some higher-level, non-tactical penetrations, either direct or as diversions and spoofs of the Syrian command and control capability, done through network attack," says a U.S. intelligence specialist.

[skydriver]

Wow, I only wish I could sit in on one operation like that and see how it is done.

[flyXwire]

IAF once again 'gets it done' ! Reminds me of the very brilliant execution raid on the Iraqi facility by the Israeli airforce back in 1981. Iran's facility should be next....

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[david cotton]

Originally Posted by flyXwire

IAF once again 'gets it done' ! Reminds me of the very brilliant execution raid on the Iraqi facility by the Israeli airforce back in 1981. Iran's facility should be next...

Ruddy hell....I hope not ...my Iran visa has just arrived........don't fancy being used as a human sheild .

[Shawn 507]

OK so I don't see an issue with helping Isreal, am I missing something?

[1250ships]

I read an analysis of this a few days ago that contended that what was hit was not a reactor. Someone had dug up several years of commercial satellite images and said that the site lacked one critical element that would mean it was a reactor- there was no cooling tower. Instead this guy thought it was something much scarier, a bomb assembly plant. Implication is that Syria got the plutonium from North Korea. He said that would explain why after the attack the Syrians had buried the entire site. They had to because the entire area would have been covered with plutonium and plutonium is extremely toxic.

Two US Congressmen who were briefed on what happened wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal saying they couldn't talk about what happened because it was classified but based on what they knew they thought it should be made public. If it was only a reactor hit that makes no sense- wouldn't be a huge out cry over it. And of course the Syrians have said nothing about it and the first country to make a statement condemning Israel was North Korea.

Whatever happened it was something important!