| Thresher01 | 18 Apr 2019 10:54 p.m. PST |
According to this report, it appears that there are "aerial cities" in Syria, since "ground to air missiles" have been fired at them: link Now something else to worry about. We have a significant, and I suspect insurmountable, "aerial city" gap with those in the Middle East. |
 Aurochs  | 19 Apr 2019 1:42 a.m. PST |
For more than 1000 years they are flying on carpets. Arial cities are just the next step. |
 Legion 4 | 19 Apr 2019 6:42 a.m. PST |
Well you hit anything with enough HE it will fly … at least for a little while … |
| Musketballs | 19 Apr 2019 7:37 a.m. PST |
What goes up, must come down…somewhere. In the Falklands War, the obsolete Sea Slug surface to air missile was used to attack ground targets. |
 etotheipi  | 19 Apr 2019 7:54 a.m. PST |
Unless it breaks into or beyond orbit, every missile is "to ground". Sometimes it even brings other additional stuff with it! the obsolete Sea Slug surface to air missile was used to attack ground targets And let's not forget the Gulf of Sidra Incident where the Libyans used their ground-to-air missiles to attack themselves. |
| Stryderg | 19 Apr 2019 8:34 a.m. PST |
Are you sure they meant "cities in the air"?
I think a better interpretation would be "cities full of antennas". |
| mghFond | 19 Apr 2019 11:22 a.m. PST |
Well………most of their surface cities are all wrecked after all this fighting. Sad place to live. |
| von Schwartz | 19 Apr 2019 2:12 p.m. PST |
The flying bit is not all that hard, the ground is though, and the sudden stop, well…
It's easy, just throw yourself on the ground, and miss, simple. Just takes some practice |
| Legion 4 | 20 Apr 2019 9:05 a.m. PST |
Well even the old Nike AD missile could be used on ground targets. We were briefed that decades ago and it generally was not well known. Now I'm sure it can be found online. Of course we don't use the Nike, Nike/Ajax, etc., anymore … AFAIK |
| David Manley | 20 Apr 2019 9:47 a.m. PST |
SA-4 missiles were used as surface to surface missiles in Chechnya. And many naval SAMs can be used surface to surface too |
| Legion 4 | 20 Apr 2019 2:52 p.m. PST |
Well it only makes sense … firing a SAM to hit an area/target on the ground. With the tech of the past few decades or more. And IIRC, the Nike had a nuke warhead.  |
