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For context in a real war the military would use almost 2000 planes and losing up to 200 or so would be expected losses. Except for the awacs, that's the biggest loss. And as always, it's doctrine that you would send in ground troops who are better at dealing with individuals.
Sources say it was a 360 noscope
Oh no, who would have thought asymmetric warfare is going to he an issue, after dozens of years of wars in the middle east and using Ukraine as playground.
Yeah it’s not like we spent the last two decades fighting asymmetric wars… oh wait
Or two decades fight an asymmetric war which President Bone Spurs personally managed to avoid.
"...a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military."
You know what US military targets an Iranian "shoulder-fired missile" can't hit? The ones in the US. The only place the US military should be. Invading forces aren't entitled to an easy time stealing another country's resources.
The NBC can fuck right off with this war crime apologia masquerading as a news article containing a mild warning. It's not a Saving Private Ryan reboot, it's modern exploitation colonialism.
It should be "We eliminated most of their elementary and other schools and universities complete with children inside", right
That NBC should fuck right off goes without saying at this point but I don't disagree.
Killing an F15 with a manpad is pretty lucky. F15s can make themselves immune simply by fling higher and faster. The missiles that can climb up there are as big as a telephone pole.
However aircraft like the A10 and all helicopters are vulnerable to this threat. And since the missiles are small, cheap, and easy to conceal, there is no way to counter this threat without physically controlling the territory. Ask Russia.
Not necessarily lucky. There are basically only two reasons why an F-15 would be flying that low over Iran:
- The threat of high level AD is too high to risk flying high, forcing the F-15 to operate below the radar horizon
- Stockpiles of precision guided bombs are low enough that they have to use dumb bombs, thus needing to fly low to be accurate.
I think the former is more likely than the latter, though in the best case scenario it's a mix of both. In either case, it's less luck than the US hitting a limiting factor in its operations and being forced into a position where MANPADS are a threat to fighters
They're flying B52s over Iran now.
Trump's rhetoric can't stop SAMs so if Iran still has that capability I'd be curious why they're not using it. Remember it's still the US military, and squashing air defenses is like their whole deal.
Over, or near? If over what part of Iran? So far, as far as I'm aware, they've been using the B-52s with standoff munitions. Maybe they're using them on Kharg island, but that's an island off the coast. The air defences are going to get thicker when they get further into the country.
What kind of propaganda bullshit is this… it starts with Iran’s military has been badly damaged by the US and Israel. Not really, they have been targeting civilians not Iran’s military
Anyhow, what an expensive rescue mission in that they had to destroy millions of dollars' worth of aircraft.
Trump is really bringing back the 1980s.
I disagree. Not in the sense that you are wrong. The similarities to previous grave mistakes is often stunning.
My own personal thoughts are that even though the similarities are there to other historical blunders, the sheer scale and depth of pure stupidity and gross incompetence on full display right now for all the world to see is so mind numbingly unprecedented on so many levels that it shouldn’t be referred to as anything other than a brand new low.
It’s like referring to anything else somehow makes it seem less bad. Even though past conflicts were devastating.
Did ... Did Iran pull a Rendezook maneuver from Battlefield 3?