
bartthechef
3.5K posts



The US just found out the hard way that Iran didn’t need radar to shoot down its F-15E. It used passive infrared detection — a heat-seeking system that emits zero signal, cannot be detected, cannot be jammed, and is completely invisible to the electronic warfare architecture America built its air superiority doctrine around. The F-15E’s systems never saw it coming. No radar alert. No countermeasure window. The EPAWSS electronic warfare suite — America’s most advanced jet protection system is designed to defeat radar-guided threats. Passive infrared doesn’t use radar. It uses physics and heat signature (both the F15 and F35 emit plenty of heat). It locks onto engine heat and kills in seconds. This same passive infrared system hit an F-35 on March 19th the most expensive weapons program (1.7 trillion) in human history, built specifically to be undetectable and forced it into emergency landing with the pilot reportedly pulling shrapnel from his body. Five weeks into a war Trump said Iran had “no ability” to fight, the IRGC’s aerospace force has now downed or damaged the two most advanced aircraft in the American arsenal using a system that cost a fraction of what Washington spent trying to make its jets invulnerable. Washington built the most expensive air force in the history of warfare to defeat radar-guided threats. Iran read the physics textbook instead, built an Infrared heat sensor and rendered the Pentagon procurement manual irrelevant.




Vladimir Putin to Armenia’s PM: “We sell gas to you for $177.5 per 1,000 m³… Europe is paying over $600 right now.” Preferential pricing for allies vs Europe’s LNG reality. Energy geopolitics in one sentence.
















100,000 troops in Europe. Zero help on Hormuz. Bring them home now. No more free rides.













