---
title: "This Awesome Chart Shows All The Assets Used In The Trilateral Missile Strikes On Syria"
description: "It's by far the best visual depiction of the operation we have seen."
date: "2018-04-29"
modified: "2018-04-29"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway.md"
url: "https://www.twz.com/20509/this-awesome-chart-shows-all-the-assets-used-in-the-trilateral-missile-strikes-on-syria"
categories:
  - "Air"
  - "Air Force Munitions"
  - "Air-To-Ground"
  - "Around The Globe"
  - "Middle East"
  - "News & Features"
  - "Syria"
tags:
  - "Air launched cruise missile"
  - "chart"
  - "CIGeography"
  - "Cruise Missile"
  - "graphic"
  - "JASSM"
  - "Mediterranean"
  - "russia"
  - "SCALP"
  - "Storm Shadow"
  - "Syria"
  - "Tomahawk"
  - "Trilateral Strike"
---

# This Awesome Chart Shows All The Assets Used In The Trilateral Missile Strikes On Syria

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-twz/content/2018/04/jjajd91313.jpg>)
*www.twz.com*

Our [good friends at](<https://www.twz.com/20311/these-handy-graphics-show-the-entire-inventories-of-the-israeli-and-canadian-air-forces.md>) Contemporary Issues Geography ([CIGeography](<https://cigeography.blogspot.fr/>)) are back at it again, and this time they took it upon themselves to visualize the assets used in the April 13th trilateral cruise missile strikes on Syria.

Above all else, the chart dramatically illustrates how many support assets took part in the operation, not just so the shooters' missiles could successfully make it to their targets, but to set up a defensive screen in the case Russia decided to respond militarily to the operation. This chart largely vibes with our [real-time marathon](<https://www.twz.com/20055/united-states-france-and-uk-begin-air-strikes-on-syria-updating-live.md>) and [after-action coverage](<https://www.twz.com/20120/heres-all-the-details-the-pentagon-just-released-regarding-its-missile-attack-on-syria.md>) of the event.

![message-editor%2F1525034971253-bg755.jpg](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1525034971253-bg755.jpg>)
**CIGeography**

![message-editor%2F1525035585545-nhhu8.jpg](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1525035585545-nhhu8.jpg>)
**CIGeography**

This chart will likely be revised a bit in the coming days as there are a few disputed components, such as [the E-11 Raven](<https://www.twz.com/13562/we-chew-the-fat-about-bacn-with-program-boss-and-airman-who-used-it-in-combat.md>) which some sources say was just repositioning from Afghanistan to Europe at the time. Additional surveillance assets may also be added, and the name of the F-16 unit involved in the mission appears to be a typo, it should be the 555th 'Triple Nickle' fighter squadron based out of Aviano. But aside from those small discrepancies, this chart is far better than anything the DoD or other allied commands involved in the operation have released.

A big thanks once again to [CIGeography](<https://cigeography.blogspot.fr/>) for their amazing work, and remember [you can buy these charts](<https://www.etsy.com/shop/CIGeography>) in poster size for yourself or for the defense or aeronautical nut in your life. Our analysis of the mission is almost complete and should be posted in the coming days, so stay tuned for that as well.

*Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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