My goodness!! What are you 12? The level of nonsense that comes out of your brain just makes me want to punch my computer because you sound like a damn child!!
2025 Israel - Iranian conflict
- Thread starter Maikeru
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Iran needs just one lucky hit to sink the Trump presidency along with his destroyers.
This is an American war of choice and I don't think Americans would stomach a Moskva like loss.
Not if Iranian anti-ship missiles are any good. If they are then those ships are minced meat
They are good to the extent that they can hit civilian ships/Western naval ships caught off guard without AA/EW enabled. Maybe saturation attacks can tilt it in their favor?
This upcoming fight will show why Command, Control and Kill chains are the key, not specific platform capabilities.
Houthis have been testing Iranian systems in the Red Sea for some time now. If Iran gets ISR from say, satellites or ELINT ships belonging to friendly nations, this could really spiral out of control. Not sure the US wants to see ships sunk, especially with how slowly they'll get replaced.
(Pls view this with critical think)
The IDF have released an infographic detailing the locations allegedly targeted in Iran during recent operations.
- Black: Military commanders
- Yellow: Nuclear facilities
- Blue: Air defense systems
- Red: Missile launchers
- Purple: Nuclear scientists
Source: IDF
Geography solves alot of problems. For Iran, the Gulf is now a huge buffer. US evacuated it because in a shooting war with Iran, anything in the Persian Gulf is a sitting duck, as I said before. So they're not going to put any ships there. This isn't like Desert Storm where Iraq had 0 control of the Gulf.
But that means their only options for carrier positioning are Mediterranean, even further than the Levant, or Arabian Sea, which means overflying empty (except for SAMs) Iranian Balochistan.
Then there's the fact that they only have a handful of F-35Cs. Its going to be mostly F-18s operating from the carriers. And they'll be at the end of a very long logistical tail.
I emphasize carriers because they're much harder to shut down for Iran than a fixed airbase. F-35As operating from fixed airbase need permission, which many Arab countries will be reluctant to give. Those that can't or won't do anything about it like Iraq and Syria can be attacked on the ground.
So apparently assistance was offered but rejected by Iran. We will see how long they intend to go alone. It would explain why there was no mutual defense clause in the Russia-Iran agreement. Combined with Putin saying the Iranians aren’t interested in Russian Air defense. They don’t want to be dependent on foreign equipment or receive protection from foreign militaries.