Jon

Iran’s Majid air-defense system, officially designated AD-08, is a domestically produced, road-mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile platform that first appeared in a military parade in April 2021 and has since emerged as the most consequential weapons development of Operation Epic Fury. The system’s defining feature is entirely passive: it detects engine heat rather than bouncing radar waves off a target, which means it triggers no alert on the F-35’s radar warning receivers and renders the aircraft’s electronic countermeasures useless against a passive optical seeker. On March 19, it struck a U.S. F-35A over central Iran, forcing an emergency landing with the pilot sustaining shrapnel wounds, marking the first confirmed surface-to-air engagement of a fifth-generation fighter in operational history. That record has continued to compound: Friday’s F-15E shoot-down, confirmed by U.S. officials, went down over similar central Iranian terrain, with the IRGC again citing a “new, advanced air-defense system,” suggesting Iran has deployed the Majid at scale, and today, April 3rd, Iranian media claimed U.S. rescue efforts involving at least two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 Hercules had failed, with reports that the pilot, who had ejected over western Iran, was likely captured. The uncomfortable arithmetic here is structural: delays to the completion of Block 4 software upgrades have left F-35s unable to launch air-to-surface missiles, requiring them to fly close to their targets, which leaves them more vulnerable to short-range systems precisely like the Majid, meaning the aircraft’s procurement logic and its battlefield exposure are now working against each other in the same airspace.

This is literally insane So many people showed up to oppose a $6 billion dollar data center in Missouri they had to use bleachers The whole crowd yells and chants they don’t want the data center Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their faces

Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.

Never thought I’d see Americans rooting for Iranians to capture U.S. soldiers. Fucking sick.