Red is submunitions, black/blue canisters is penetration aids.
2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]
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The last time they struck a hotel, the 1st night they got 40 people, us naval personal (not deaths) news reported as casualties.
With religious fervour going in the country esp after today, this is a matter of time if land-invasion begins.
Khamenei being martyred in the month of ramazan really struck home for many.
Damn my post got deleted just because I mentioned strait hormuz n the C word. Even tho it was actual news.
Israeli aircraft presumably flying over Iran, including a tanker.
Edit: Comments say it's most likely refueling over Iraq
Quite frankly, I cannot fault Iran for not having the ability to shoot these down. But Iran can be faulted for not going harder after Israeli aircraft when they're on the ground at their bases. They should focus the majority of their drones and missiles on IDAF forces and infrastructure. Especially now that USAF infrastructure in the Gulf States has been sufficiently hit.
Greatly diminished... you know that even $50k USD gas powered delivery drones with mortars and MLRS has the range to hit Iraq, and there's the precedent of Serbia, in which during 3 months of NATO bombing, they killed only single digits of tanks, APCs and artillery, and Iran is a country with thousands of tanks, APCs and artillery pieces, and now even infantry have FPVs? And are you aware that even Iraqis themselves know that the Shia militias aren't under government control?
Serbia threw in the towel because they had no win condition. Iran has a simple win condition: block the straits of Hormuz.
I mean, you can see the F-35's don't venture near Iranian air space as much as the US and others like to claim.The israelis are less risk averse but they don't seem to attempt it nearly as often.
Not even the Russians flew this cautiously at the start of the war against a better air defense network
They're going to do the same thing with Russia aren't they? Where Xi would hang out with Putin and go "bro we'll build new world order" and the west asks "could China be helping Russia?"
CNN was able to drive from presumably Pakistan or Turkmenistan to Tehran and get coffee at rest stops with trucks parked there like nothing's happening.
Any one of those trucks and tractor trailers could be parts for drones and missiles, the trucks themselves launchers, totally civilian of course, just like with Russia.
But yeah let's ask if Iran sold all that oil to China for nothing.
Is Incredible for the US this war is becoming a performative reality TV show.
I wonder. As of now they missed quite a few shots which normally should lead to high intercept chances, but they consistently don't.
Iranian ADs just don't appear to be able to process high performance aircraft well, and frankly appear to work well only against drones.
This is beyond good tactics; they miss even in situations where bluefor package visibly screwed up, yet escapes unpunished for that. This is "something is bloody wrong".
Furthermore, some of their high level force design choices are weird. It's possible to understand why their PGM or ABM intercept capabilities are limited; ultimately it's tech/money question for a "3rd world" nation with rather late and incomplete industrialization.
But coming up with underground fortresses without ensuring ability to cover entrances of those fortresses is sad level of mental negligence.
Haha. Bush succeeded only because Iraqis did not fight. US won Iraq without a fight. If they decided to do urban warfare, it would have taken years and years to conquer Iraq.
What a shot:
Baudrillard would be proud
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