@Jason The Iranian coastline is over 1000 miles long. We aren't even patrolling at sea, just blockading large vessels out past the straits. It's like trying to secure all of the California coastline with a handful of ships.
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Philip Wasserman
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Philip Wasserman
@Portland_Phil
Loyal Duck, Blazer Maniac, and avid sports enthusiast
Portland, OR Beigetreten Temmuz 2012
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@PebMet1 @booster_10 These metal deflector-style trenches are proven, but they are disposable. All those steel panels wear away during each launch, meaning they must be replaced for each flight. This limits your launch cadence to repair times. You need water cooling for high launch rate usage.
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Flame trench looks great, we still have to see it survive a flight but it looks like a very successful design change so far.
RGV Aerial Photography@RGVaerialphotos
A look inside the flame trench post Booster 19 static fire
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@Cappyarmy Does it have a minimum range? Will there be CQB ammo, or do they need a secondary weapon?
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I’m test firing the army’s new 30mm grenade gun tomorrow. What questions do you have about the ‘Precision Grenade Systems’ capabilities, tactics , etc?
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@Osinttechnical They probably flew the littlebird into the area on the HC130, and didn't have the space or the lift to take it when they blew up the plane.
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Appears that at least one MH-6 Little Bird helicopter was destroyed as well.
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Remains of the USAF M/HC-130 Hercules transport aircraft destroyed by US forces before departing their forward base in Iran, used successfully to recover the downed F-15 aircrew.
The aircraft had reportedly become stuck in the soft ground and were blown up to avoid capture.
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@POmi7798 @LekhtNaya @daoudkuttab Ghandi didn't support terrorism; to co-opt his legacy of nonviolent protest into support for genocidal terrorism is disgusting. The IRA is a terrorist group, which failed until it gave up violence... The American Revolution was fought by uniformed soldiers. Try harder, please.
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@LekhtNaya @daoudkuttab That’s what every colonialist state has said about those they occupy. The Brits called Ghandi a terrorist, the original 1916 IRA, the Provisional IRA, the Americans during the revolutionary war, South Africa called Mandela a terrorist.
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Nothing reveals the truth quite like an unintended admission. Critics of the death-penalty law passed in the Knesset are busy calling it “racist,” insisting it targets Palestinians. But the law itself is clear: it applies to terrorists who carry out murderous attacks. It names an act, not a people. The question writes itself: who made the leap from “terrorist” to “Palestinian”? Not the law. The critics. In trying to expose prejudice, they’ve exposed their own. A law about behavior becomes, in their reading, a law about identity, which tells you far more about their assumptions than about the text. 🫢
dw.com/en/israel-pass…
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@Osinttechnical Nothing about the "Iraqi" militias backed by Iran has made me think destroying Iran was a bad idea. Iran is the poison that has destroyed the Middle East's chance at peace post-Saddam.
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An Iranian-backed militia successfully used a (likely fiber optic) FPV drone to carry out a reconnaissance mission through the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad yesterday.
Seen here, the drone flies unchallenged through the embassy complex for nearly two minutes.
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@JustinHaubrich His policy failures caused all of the wars in the Middle East since. He betrayed our ally, the Shaw, leading to a Shia theocracy taking over, leading to the Iran-Iraq war, which pushed Iraq to invade Kuwait to avoid debt. Iran spread terror to Leb, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. ect..
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He dropped Khomeini on Iran. That is worse than any bomb.
Remarks@remarks
🇺🇸 Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) was the last US President who did not drop a single bomb on a foreign country during his presidency.
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@Joel_P_Atkinson With half of SK pop in range of conventional artillary from the north, what good was THAAD doing in korea? Stopping Nukes? Thats what our Nukes are for, the ranges and altitudes of NK missiles are to low for THAAD to cover Korea, Patriot is much more useful.
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Korea THAAD episode expert here. THAAD is not being removed, one/ some launchers are (THAAD is comprised of a radar & multiple launchers). China was upset about THAAD's radar, which remains. As does the site. No one will probably even notice when the US brings the launcher back
Saagar Enjeti@esaagar
Reading Korean media and there is great fear that the removal of THAAD will precipitate another diplomatic crisis with China if they are ever redeployed: In 2016 the initial deployment caused a serious crisis and they anticipate another may happen if we try to return it
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@DEricSayers What exactly was THAAD going to do in a war with NK? Soul is in range of artillery from NK. NK isn't going to nuke SK because we would nuke them, not because of THAAD. NK has mostly short-range, low-altitude missiles, which THAAD doesn't target anyway. Patriot is more useful.
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It took massive political and alliance capital to move the THAAD system to South Korea in 2016-2018. China pushed back hard and eventually lost because the ROK concluded their security and sovereignty came first and China didn’t get a veto power. This is the reality of how things have unfolded in CENTCOM but also a very unfortunate outcome for the US-ROK alliance. What are we doing to reassure Seoul this is temporary? What is our messaging on the decision? Is our posture in INDOPACOM from a year ago now net-negative after this decision?
Saagar Enjeti@esaagar
AND THERE IT IS: Pentagon is cannibalizing THAAD parts from South Korea and Patriot interceptors from the Indo-Pacific It only took one week to dramatically lower US defense capabilities in Asia
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@esaagar South Korea's capital is so close to NK that it falls under threat of regular artillery. In the event of war, ballistic missiles are the least of their issues. If SK wants THAAD, they should buy their own. Or have a copy produced at home.
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Bilateral trade with South Korea: 240 billion
Bilateral trade with Israel: 50 billion
UK Report@UK_REPT
NEW — 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇷 Korean media published an image from today, showing the US dismantling its THAAD and Patriot systems from S-Korea, to send to the Middle East.
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@clashreport Why would you allow your enemy to do an open-source battle damage assessment of their targets? How about Israel lets people film bomb sites when Iran opens their internet access?
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
Netanyahu doesn't want you to see how Iran's Powerful Armed Forces are punishing Israel for its aggression.
Here's what our men & women on the ground report: utter destruction caused by our missiles, panicked leaders, and air defenses in disarray.
And we're just getting started.
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@snarwani Unit cost is not the same as replacement cost. When people say it's a billion dollars for a radar, they are including the development price, i.e., the program cost $10 billion, and we got 10 units out of it. They aren't cheap, but they are not a billion dollars.
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NOTE: The US has only eight THAAD systems globally, including in South Korea and Guam. The batteries cost about $1 billion each. That's half the US THAADs obliterated in one week.
Ali@MerruX
Here are the confirmation for the 4 Thaad systems Taken out by Iran Saudi Prince Sultan Air base - 24.074218, 47.681327 UAE - 24.677595, 54.697818 Abu Dhabi 24.061942, 52.717325 Al Ruwais Jordan Muwaffaq Salti Air Base 31.801428, 36.758280
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@clashreport He is like Steve Jobs, eating organic food to stop cancer. Nobody is saying eating healthy is a bad idea, but sometimes you have to get chemo and radiation to kill cancer. Iran's regime of terror long since metastasized beyond talk and diplomacy.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney on Iran:
The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order:
Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran’s nuclear threat remains.
And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada. So where to from here?
With a rapidly spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life, Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East.
And we implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving this goal.
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@sentdefender People wondered why the US spent so much time training the Ukr operators on Patriot; it's because incompetent AD is worse than no AD. These jets have IFF; you would have to ignore their friendly tags to launch on them. To do that more than once invites questions about intent.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that a total of three F-15E Strike Eagles with the U.S. Air Force, flying in support of Operation Epic Fury, were mistakenly shot down this morning over Kuwait in “friendly fire” incidents involving Kuwaiti Air Defenses. All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered, and are in stable condition in Kuwait.
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@PfeiffCj4424 @Osinttechnical They were designed and built when precision attacks on airbases were pretty much a dream, and if you were being bombed and didn't scramble your own jets, you had bigger issues. These stop many threats, including the cluster munitions they were built for
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One guided bomb directly through the roof of each hardened shelter at Iran’s Konarak Airbase.
Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc
@vantortech @GeoConfirmed Also in Konarak, at the International Airport (فرودگاه بین المللی چابهار-کنارک), precision strikes on multiple aircraft shelters. Location for @GeoConfirmed: @25.4368744,60.3653418,1642a,35y,33.56h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d25.331944!4d60.356389?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/maps/place/25%…
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@I_amMukhtar When the state becomes inseparable from the "church", anger at one reflects onto the other. At the same time, when the "church" becomes an instrument of state control, the rebellion against one cannot be separated from the other.
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@Megatron_ron Context is important. What Israel almost certainly said was that the only way for them to destroy the Iranian sites deep underground was to use non-conventional weapons. Nuclear bunkerbusting is a known idea, mostly for targeting silos in a first strike.
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@VicLombardi Jokic caused this by pinning Toumara's arm to hold him off, then he had to one-hand the catch and got tied up. If he hadn't fouled Toumara, he would have been able to use both hands and gotten a shot off. Sometimes you get caught trying to draw a call.
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@DNVR_Nuggets The real joke is that if Jokic hadn't tried to pin the defender's arm to draw a foul, he could have caught the pass away from his body with both hands and been able to get a shot off. Instead, he tried to draw the call and got caught when he one-handed the catch.
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@ziggirrastica @anduriltech Then why doesn't Ukraine withdraw all its soldiers from the frontline, take their guns, artillery, tanks, IFVs, and APCs? If soldiers are useless, why are they targeted by drones?
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These glasses are one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen in my life. Anyone who actually understands today’s battlefield, who’s seen a bit of the war in Ukraine, knows that drones are the most lethal weapon now. Tech like this for soldiers on the ground is almost useless. It serves no purpose. Modern war is fought with drones. A soldier in an open field will die in seconds.
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This is not a video game.
With lethal connectivity, EagleEye enables Warfighters to command and control unmanned systems and call for fires through a heads-up, hands-free display.
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