2026 Israel-US vs. Iran conflict [Military updates/News Only]

[sheogorath]

This likely means less CSAR assets available in theater until they bring more. There were only 6 HC-130J, and seems they already lost two, so the possibility of rescue of the next downed pilot have gone down quite a bit.

Also allegedly and Israeli navy ship got hit by a cruise missile

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2040694372400824679

 

[DriedDragonfruit]

This spot is around 50 km south east of Isfahan, pretty big city. There's a rough airstrip, ~1.2 km long. Probably used that.
Pretty deep into Iran, and right next to a pretty important city.

If the location is true then it's pretty embarrassing for the Iranians. It's one thing to let the Americans extract their pilot a few dozen kms from the border, but it's another thing to let them extract him from the literal center of your country. Isfahan is around 385 km to the nearest Iraqi border, the scenario would be roughly analogous to extracting someone from somewhere southeast of Las Vegas, which would be around 350 km to the Pacific and also near a major city. You can't really laugh at the Americans for losing some planes and helicopters then if the location is actually near Isfahan.

 

[PopularScience]

If the location is true then it's pretty embarrassing for the Iranians. It's one thing to let the Americans extract their pilot a few dozen kms from the border, but it's another thing to let them extract him from the literal center of your country. Isfahan is around 385 km to the nearest Iraqi border, the scenario would be roughly analogous to extracting someone from somewhere southeast of Las Vegas, which would be around 350 km to the Pacific and also near a major city. You can't really laugh at the Americans for losing some planes and helicopters then if the location is actually near Isfahan.

Each aircraft is worth 300 million.

 

[sheogorath]

If the location is true then it's pretty embarrassing for the Iranians. It's one thing to let the Americans extract their pilot a few dozen kms from the border, but it's another thing to let them extract him from the literal center of your country. Isfahan is around 385 km to the nearest Iraqi border, the scenario would be roughly analogous to extracting someone from somewhere southeast of Las Vegas, which would be around 350 km to the Pacific and also near a major city. You can't really laugh at the Americans for losing some planes and helicopters then if the location is actually near Isfahan.

Sure, if you take what the americans are claiming at face value right when they have been doing open cover up of their losses and have strong armed sat imagery companies into not releasing any more images of the damages in the middle, so its fair to say that lot more happened here.

And its fairly certain to recue team has taken casualties, you don't lose 3(or more) aircrafts in enemy territory with no deaths nor wounded, just to rescue a pilot. And you can indeed laugh at the americans as they were the ones who put themselves in this position in the first place.

On the other hand, the Iranian claims they were the ones who destroyed the aircrafts

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2040649956655243352

 

[siegecrossbow]

they f*cked so bad

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2040486281902477436

China can help, Tyler.

 

[CaribouTruth]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2040649956655243352

This image is a point of concern and hasn't yet been addressed, because this does not look like the area around Isfahan. Something else is going on in this picture.

 

[PopularScience]

A seal leaved underwear behind.

 

[mack8]

Looking at the overall picture, makes me wonder if the americans will be a lot more shy to fly fighters in iranian airspace from now on. These hectic two days and the appalling US observed losses (nevermind possible troop casualties censored from public) to get the pilots out show than another such operation is extremely dicey and could easily go a lot worse. Paedo Don hates bad publicity.

 

[Temstar]

I think this is a fairly good approximation of that crazy plan leaked a few days ago of an attack on Isfahan where they plan to air assault in, form a parameter and have engineers build an airfield, then use it to land heavy excavation equipment to then dig into Isfahan to allow it to be stormed and the uranium within captured.

Given the result this time I can say if the bigger plan is carried out you'll expect them to be able to get the ground ready enough to land a few C-130, but the excavation with heavy equipment part is likely to be disastrous given Iranian performance this time.

 

[Anlsvrthng]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2040694389509349536

Walkaround iof the debries.

How many rescue like this possible?

Three more before they run out of equpment?