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Definitely not drones!

You're right, but I suspect THAAD would only be used in an emergency type situation. Very, very expensive.

As expected, they'll counter in places like Syria... Per the plan.

Any idea where they were fired from? Just curious about the flight time, reference Israel's ability to intercept them with David's Sling and Patriot PAC-2...

We may get to see what David's Sling and Patriot PAC-2 can against Iranian cruise missiles. It will be interesting to see what the interception rate is like.

If that was in any way real, the interception rate was insane. Those drones were being picked out of the sky with ease... As expected. I'll standby to see if it was real before I comment further.

What I do hope is that this "attack" is enough to get U.S. speaker Mike Johnson to table the U.S. supplemental bill that features $11 Billion usd worth of military defense aid for Israel 🇮🇱 and $60 Billion worth of military defense aid for Ukraine. The Republicans are largely in favour aiding...

I suspect that they'll strike Iranian proxies in some combination of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, without a direct attack on Iranian territory. IMO, this was all planned in an attempt to keep the situation from exploding into real war.

Who insinuated that you should? I'm not suggesting that Turkey would. I'm wondering what Turkey is going to say between the exchange of "attacks" between Iran and Israel and I'm also curious what they think about Russia's threat to intervene.

This was planned in advance. We talked about it in the other thread. Iran 🇮🇷 had to look tough for its population, so just like when the U.S. smoked Soleimani, they "retaliated". That retaliation was cleared by the Americans in advance and no real damage was done. In this case Iran launched a...

I think that Turkey 🇹🇷 is one of the more interesting countries in the region right now. They're a NATO member and are actively buying and selling weapons to / from their Western Allies and they obviously have tenous relationship with Russia. That said, they also have no love for Israel and...

Lol Putin 🤡... The guy whose military is so bogged down in Ukraine that they've yet to conquer 20% of the country, despite insane attrition, is talking about WWIII. Put the crack pipe down Vlad.

Very, very different when you are caught by surprise vs mobilized for war. Israel's 🇮🇱 military posture is much, much different than it was on October 7th. I suspect that a conventional offensive from Hezbollah would play out similar to Wagner's attack on Bahkmut in Ukraine. There would...

Do you really think Hezbollah has the type of forces that would fare well in an offensive, against a prepared enemy, with a first world military? Hezbollah is at its best when it's able to fight using gorilla tactics, on its own territory, using its own prepared defenses. I think they'd get...

Nothing beats real world experience for the pilots. Large drones are such a slow, juicy target for advanced western radars. AIM-7, AIM-9, Meteor and ASRAAM are going to have no shortage of juicy targets.

Iraq is not going to "protect" its air space against the United States, unless the U.S. starts targeting Iraq proper. If you're the leadership in Iraq, why would you kick that hornets nest? It makes no sense.

Russia 🇷🇺 is posturing for the most part. The Americans have been DYING for the Russians to misstep and invite conventional conflict. The Russian Air Force and Navy are going to get their shit pushed in if they try to get involved in any meaningful way. Putin knows that. He's up to his elbows in...

Do you really think it's in Iraq's best interest to start shooting down American and British fighters that are not attacking Iraq? That sounds like an easy excuse for them to carpet bomb Baghdad again. I have no idea why Iraq would want to do that right now.

Looking forward to seeing how this plays our strategically, given that I suspect much of this was "discussed" in advance. Israel's air defense will primarily include... Israeli 🇮🇱 Iron Dome This will be used as the primary defense system against Iranian drones, using Tamir interceptors...

Andrew Perpetua's visually documented and geolocated losses for Russia and Ukraine, Friday, April 12th.