2025 Israel - Iranian conflict

Gloire_bb

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but why would they use the much riskier ATGM? it is more mass per munition, shorter range and requires line of sight. harder to smuggle and transport, riskier to use.

that would suggest ideologically motivated operators who accept additional risk.
Well, they had similar attacks during last year, as well as in 2010s(both with spikes, remote controlled turrets and kill teams on site).

IMHO the answer is simple: Iran is big, country with very rough terrain and enough insurgency/resistance problems. They just always could, and activated their existing network. Which worked just fine, though of course it limits the tempo of such operations to whatever can bring/bribe its way through.

Ukraine being this drone-minded is sort of global (forced) exception, other militaries adjust slower. Note that last year, most effective hezbollah precision attacks were also through Almas(i.e. Iranian spike-sr), not by FPVs.
 

xyz4321

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Compare Iran to Pakistan.

Pakistan is poorer in every way yet they couldn't even be infiltrated by either the US or India.

This is while Indians can literally speak Urdu and some of top Indian leadership was even born in Pakistan ie PM Manmohan Singh.

Israel and Iran share no significant demographic groups, how the f they infiltrate if it wasn't for willing traitors?
There is the Mizrahi Jew - migrants from Iran and Iraq - which comprise a significant chunk of the Israeli population (+40%). Iran still has some Mizrahi that did not leave. You can see then how infiltration into Iran works. Infiltration into Israel is probably through the 2 million Arab population of Israel, some of whom serve in the IDF, or.. Iranians pretending to be Mizrahi and possibly having migrated to Israel as moles.

Indians don't speak Pashto which is very common in Pakistan, and only a few of them speak Punjabi which is even more common in Pakistan.
 
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