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“So this leverage that Iran thinks it has now is diminishing faster and faster, literally every week as we speak”
You can just move a whole military base underground in weeks?
Can someone who knows more than I do explain why the military plan of "bomb active construction sites on the bases you're at war with" isn't a viable strategy for Iran here? I'm sure it shouldn't be because there would be no reason to even pretend to implement a plan that stupid.
You can hire no bid contractors who will tell you it can be done in weeks at exorbitant cost, even though it definitely can't though and that's basically the same thing
Funniest thing they could do is hire the Saudi Binladin Group.
Is the US still a month away from running out of oil like Mango Mussolini said a few days ago? Or have they been able to get more oil? Can't really construct anything underground if you don't have oil to power construction equipment
I am sure military contractors will get this done in record time and well under budget!
Pentagon official says that each branch of the US military will get their own super secret base that nobody will be allowed to shoot back at. They say they will be consulting military contractors from the 1980's who were responsible for such highly successful projects as GI Joe HQ, Thunderbird 5, and Castle Grayskull
I love not having healthcare* so that the shit country i live in can have the most expensive and least effective military empire imaginable just pissing away money and value in an exponentially increasing state intrinsically entwined with its own decline
*sorry i meant healthcare i can afford
Old news. Americans have been flying their planes into the ground for generations already. 
They just tried to land the planes at the underground bases than don't yet exist, it was not the planes fault, it was the timetravel fault!
Waiting for those underground runways.
Doctrine of underground aerial supremacy
Iran actually has 1 or 2 airbases "underground": the hangars & taxiways are situated inside mountain tunnels leading directly to a runway. There's cool footage of their F-4s parked in them & discussion of how basing Su-35s in a couple such centrally located mountain bases would go a long way towards denying hostile overflights.
Normal targeting of an airfield usually involves hitting aircraft parking spots & the intersections between taxiways & runways--the runway itself is very easy to repair, to such an extent that munitions specifically designed to attack airfields usually also scatter mines so the enemy can't simply drive a bulldozer up to the pothole you created & just fill it back in.
give Iran Oreshniks
Limited hangout to conceal the stargate program.
Please tell me more
They're moving the Stargate from Cheyenne Mountain to Raven Rock.
Moving shit underground won't exactly help that much.... you have to bring stuff topside to use it. Sure they can't just willy nilly blow your shit up at any time, but they can certainly watch and wait until you bring it outside to use it.
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"Listen, they have extended their reach way too much, they are losing their advantage, now we only wait for Steiner to attack..."
The Americans have once again forgotten to add Kurt Angle to the mix. Their chances of winning drastic go down.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
300 million dollar for a hardened bunker for the equivalent of a parking garage with mold.
doesn't the MoU stipulate that US forces are to leave the region? The timeline for that seems shorter than the timeline to dig all these underground bases that, during construction, would be easy to blow up with missiles.
If I remember right it did yes
Regular moleman W
How are they going to fortify those bases?.. With the composite ultra strong engineered concrete... That Iran has a near monopoly on and has the secret sauce to the most advanced stuff that survives US bunker busters!!!