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I'm actually pumped about Iran retaliating because it's likely the catalyst that gets the U.S. supplemental aid package for Ukraine / Israel passed quickly. That means tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Russian families that will send their loved ones to Ukraine and have their lives...

It was a pretty insignificant attack overall, basically orchestrated between the two countries so that Iran's population felt vindicated for Israel's strike two weeks ago.

I don't expect to see a major war either. A decent response might be mass cruise missiles strikes from the Persian Gulf, aimed at smashing much of Iran's oil exporting capacity along its southern coast, as well as international trading ports. Essentially, you send the message that if they want...

That would be juicy. I'd like to see to see a saturation attack vs Iranian air defense to see how it comparatively handles such an attack. A large scale ballistic / cruise missile strike on Tehran would be interesting. Just to see how well Iran's air defense holds up. Raining fire down on the...

So it's a little complicated, but this is how it all fits together. The U.S. has a supplemental aid package worth $95 Billion usd in the House of Representatives, waiting to be voted on (it already passed in the Senate). That package includes $11 Billion usd in military aid for Israel 🇮🇱 and...

Agreed. No way they intercepted 100. 20-30, with 10'ish impacting?... That I would believe. 100 seems silly. I'm sure they probably intercepted 90%+ of drones though.

All I care is that it's enough for USA 🇺🇸 to pass their $95 Billion usd defense supplemental and that countries like Britain 🇬🇧, Germany🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Canada 🇨🇦 and the Scandanavian countries get serious about passing additional meaningful aid and quickly committing to...

1 confirmed Israeli casualty so far. Has anyone heard anything different?

Hitting what?... That's the question. Big difference between hitting the Negev, or the outskirts of a city, vs hitting city centers or Israeli bases.

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...