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Its been a while since I could enjoy reading news
They also hit a radar and two blackhawks with drones. And the best part part is, the radar taken out was a short range radar that was supposed to be used to track drones.
And you can see the bases are now completely abandoned too with the drones flying through them uncontested.
Significant strike. Each one of these that bite the dust means 5-10 less planes raining bombs on Tehran. Iran has excellent targeting prioritization, much better than going after schoolchildren.
You can really tell they’ve planned this out. They took out all the early warning systems in the first days, and now they’re hunting these high value targets.
Good.
Nice, keep it coming Iran
With a fleet of around 14,500 aircraft and substantial ongoing investment, five grounded aircraft doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy.
Curious why this is being highlighted as major news.
There are around 800 C-135 in existence, not all of them are operational, and not all can be deployed in the region. It’s a major news because the US is losing assets worth billions of dollars on daily basis, and is unable to protect its based and airfields where Iran now operates with impunity.
Ty for the reply. Two points I’m struggling with:
First, one-eighth of a percent isn’t statistically meaningful. This is a top-priority system and aircraft are still flying. Any C-135 that can fly can operate there without issue.
Second, the claim that the U.S. is losing significant assets feels like a stretch, especially given the first point. Can you share sources to support that?
Because people expected Iran to roll over like Venezuela or be sitting ducks like Gaza. And America has a recent history of picking fights with countries without much capability to hit back. And Iran has been a little bit different. That and the administration is probably lying or hiding a lot of it.
It feels like Iran is exposing the traditional US military as a bit of a paper tiger unless you count nukes. I’m sure I’m at least kinda wrong, but that’s the vibe I’m getting
US seemingly watched russia get rekt by ukrainian drones and decided they’d like a punch in the face as well. But who am I to judge those masochistic tendencies.
The US military did a Tobias Funke “but maybe it’ll work for us”
This is the first time the US actually tried to fight a technologically advanced army since WW2, and the results are frankly embarrassing.
So we’re forgetting about Iraq then?
Iraq had mostly 70s tech, and the US did manage to break their army initially and topple the government. It was a disaster in strategic terms, but Iraqi regular army was no match for the US. This time around, Iran actually appears to have the upper hand. They’ve pushed out the US out of their bases across the region, destroyed billions if not trillions in the infrastructure that the US built up over many decades, and they’re eliminating American air power which was thought to be untouchable. This is truly unprecedented.
It’s ok, they couldn’t afford the fuel anyway
China will be capturing a lot of this data.
The odds are that they provided the intel; since it’s thanks to Chinese satellites that we visually can confirm the hits. American companies have blacked out all sat pictures coming out of the middle East and Israel. Something, something about freedom of information.
according to the news article, they were not destroyed but just damaged and are being repaired
They were grounded and hit with explosives.
Those birds are toast.
The report also stated that the aircraft were damaged by the missile attack, but not completely destroyed. The affected aircraft are currently being repaired, and no casualties were reported in the incident.
Destroyed in title. Damaged in article. Top tier journalism.
