2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]

[Temstar]

also one of the greatest ironies is that you know how China refused to supply Iran with the HQ-9 probably to avoid pissing off the GCC?

at some point we are likely gonna see HQ-9 missiles in Saudi Arabia being used to defend US/Israeli bases against Iranian attacks especially with the depletion in US air defence stocks.

Any friendly fire of HQ-9 against US aircraft will be spicy in that case. Someone's going to blame HQ-9 launching interceptor in an uncontrolled way once it detects a LM aircraft since it was built to do that.

 

[enroger]

Any friendly fire of HQ-9 against US aircraft will be spicy in that case. Someone's going to blame HQ-9 launching interceptor in an uncontrolled way once it detects a LM aircraft since it was built to do that.

I certainly hope Pakistan has some spicy operator like that legendary Kuwaiti pilot.... But seriously I hope Pakistan has the good sense to stay out of it, or at least half ass their effort

 

[janmichaeldave]

Wouldnt this mean that HQ-9 would finally get a scan of F-35?

 

[horse]

Hopefully no but I'm losing faith little by little as the hours go on.
I think US government has been taken over a literally suicide cult.

It is World War 3.

That is why I never thought the Americans would attack this time.

Nothing was accomplished the last time. Nothing has changed since that 12 day war a few months ago. The Iranians may have improved some of their stuff, but really that is no big deal. Iran was not going to invade other countries in West Asia.

What is at stake here is the American Empire, and those US bases are already gone. Throughout the Middle East, Iran has attack those US bases at will.

Those US bases in the GCC will not be returning. What is point for a GCC country to host a US base? Just another US target that cannot be defended.

How can the American Empire exist without forward bases?

It cannot.

 

[Faisal Iqbal]

The topography of Afghanistan is worse; the terrain is more rugged, mountains are higher, valleys are narrower, and the existing infrastructure (in 2001) was severely degraded compared to Iran's. The weather is also harsher in Afghanistan, especially from Autumn to Spring. But US got in anyway and occupied it for 20 years. Although the US did not have a good time, they still wrecked Afghanistan for decades to come. I think it is doable in Iran; not saying it is easy (especially as Iran is more developed as a fighting force, but maybe not as experienced at resistance as the Afghan veterans of the civil war and preceding Soviet War).

The most important area to occupy is this flat land where majority of the oil is.
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I suspect US wants to break this piece off just as Kuwait was once splintered from Iraq. The demographics of this area - Arabs and Lurs - have a history of conflict with the state, as well as some active separatist groups (Lurs are often labeled as Kurds),

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This map was suggested once by an American decades ago. It probably won't happen but you can guess what the thought process is in Washington,
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What a lucid American who created the map above, by the way did he worked as butcher?

Eyewitness Indian from Israel claims Israel is hiding casualties. "100ft deep bunkers and people killed in them by missile strikes".

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030088732280295429

Nothing lasts forever, but that invasion was successful.

Replaced the orignal video, with the one having English subtitles.

 

[plawolf]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030022944919794011

The question is how fast they can ramp up production

The only things that will be quadrupled will be cost and profits.

 

[Chevalier]

The possibility of ground forces reaches the mainstream which means this is no longer a rumour now

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030181000916127958

 

[bsdnf]

The UAE purchased some FK-2000s, should be used for intercepting Shahed. But guess where these air defense weapons went?

RSF

They deserved it.

 

[horse]

Do it US, i am sure you have spares , And Iran can blow it up again.

That is just too damn funny!

They want to rush in and re-build the same military asset, that was destroyed because they were unable to protect it in the first place!?

That is why I am laughing my ass off the last few days!

Freaking total panic now!

Now. Now, now, now, now!

 

[TPenglake]

Usually the history doesn't repeat but rhymes idiom is applied to events 100 years apart. Didn't think it would apply to two events with a five year gap from eachother. Two wars from great powers against a smaller adversary, preceded by a Winter Olympics characterized by controversy over the loyalty of Chinese American athletes and Korean netizens being mad racist to other Asians, that they thought would be over in days and then dragged out to prolonged campaigns.

The possibility of ground forces reaches the mainstream which means this is no longer a rumour now

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030181000916127958

Building what I wrote a few days ago, the real world just keeps busting out these rhymes.

Newest bar being the US 82nd Airborne potentially meeting the same fate the VDV did.