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outside of friendly fire and accidents, Iran has only managed to damage a single F-35 and a dozen drones, pretty poor performance, specially considering how much Iran has invested into air defense, even Iraq managed to do more damage with its outdated AD systems.
Aside from the damaged F-35, there are no confirmed reports of downed American aircraft. There's also no information about what the Iranians used to attack this aircraft, but it was the most interesting aerial event of the past month. There are also doubts about the incident with the single tanker. The Americans claim that two tankers collided in mid-air. This is, to put it mildly, unlikely. They may have been attacked from the ground, with one coming under fire and the other damaged.
The Israeli Air Force, according to them, suffered no losses or damage. Okay, all these combat aircraft are undetectable by Iranian radars, but huge airfields are. 🙄 Especially since the Iranians successfully attacked Kuwait Airport on the first day of the war, destroying two Eurofighters and damaging one.
Yes, Iranian air defenses are weak; this has long been known and was confirmed during last year's war. Thus, the enemy is destroying all Iranian military facilities with impunity. It seems to me that even if the Americans withdraw from the war, Israel will be able to continue bombing until Iran's military potential is completely destroyed.
$3 billion is an insignificant sum for the US, but Iran's losses could be irreparable for at least 10 years.
 

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Current leadership of Iran are ethnic Turks.
I would just like to post that this means nothing. They may have some Turkic blood in them but they have no problem oppressing Turkic minorities in Iran and view themselves as wholeheartedly culturally Persian.
 

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The Americans claim that two tankers collided in mid-air. This is, to put it mildly, unlikely. They may have been attacked from the ground, with one coming under fire and the other damaged.
Did you see the picture of the tailfin of the tanker that managed to land? The top of the fin was missing. Did not look like damage due to explosives to me. More consistent with an impact breaking the top of the fin off.
 

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Did you see the picture of the tailfin of the tanker that managed to land? The top of the fin was missing. Did not look like damage due to explosives to me. More consistent with an impact breaking the top of the fin off.
I examined the damaged section of the KC-135. Yes, it appears you're right that it wasn't hit by a missile, because the damage pattern isn't consistent with a missile strike; there are no shrapnel marks.
But the thing is, the damage to the vertical stabilizer is very minor; it's unlikely that a 100-ton aircraft would have hit it and fallen to the ground with serious damage. If a collision had occurred, the stabilizer would have been at least slightly bent, crushed, or deformed. But as you can see, there's nothing; it's as if the section had broken off and fallen.

It's important to consider that these enormous aircraft maintain a distance of at least several hundred meters from each other. There's simply no reason why they should have come close to each other in the air. How could they have collided in that case?
But since these are tanker aircraft, it's more likely that the fighter jet lightly brushed the stabilizer during refueling and broke off a small section.
 

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At least 2 more KC-135s hit in Saudi Arabia. These look to be new. We can say number of out of service(temporarily, fully) tankers have now risen to 9+(at least 2 destroyed, 5 damaged, 1 crashed, 1 made emergency landing) Turkey operates 7 KC-135s total; while US has about 450, 300+ of them KC-135s.

 
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No, I'm pretty sure no Israeli ground unit will be entering Iran. Enough with the 2nd grade name calling.
Who said they will send their own people? They will send Americans.
I am curious what Afroamericans or Hispanics think to kill or die for Israel interests? I mean, US don’t care Africa, but willing to send Afroamericans to die for Israel.
 

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Who said they will send their own people? They will send Americans.
I am curious what Afroamericans or Hispanics think to kill or die for Israel interests? I mean, US don’t care Africa, but willing to send Afroamericans to die for Israel.
Then you will say Americans like grown ups. You've been warned multiple times before.
 

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Then you will say Americans like grown ups. You've been warned multiple times before.
Than I would tell a lies. USA doesn’t want the war. Even D. Trump doesn’t want the war (you can find the corresponding statement on YouTube, few years ago). Israel wants this war. But it’s a well known fact that AIPAC wants this war, too. Same goes for other Jewish lobbyists in EU. They don’t hide it. So, if I say, Jews wants to invade Iran, I am not lying.
 

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U.S. Is Burning Through Tomahawk Cruise Missile Stockpile At An Alarming Rate: Report​

The four-week conflict with Iran has so far consumed more than a whopping 850 Tomahawk missiles, officials have stated.

The Pentagon is alarmed by the rate at which Tomahawk cruise missile stocks have been depleted during ongoing operations against Iran, according to officials who spoke to The Washington Post. The latest development highlights a matter of growing importance for the Department of Defense, which is increasingly looking at the resilience of weapons stocks as it envisages a future high-end scenario in the Pacific, especially a conflict over Taiwan.


🤣I couldnot believe they still think “Tomahawk would be a primary weapon system used in a conflict with China”.
 

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New footage of Iranian missile strikes on Tel Aviv. The video, filmed by Tel Aviv residents, appears to show the release of cluster munitions from an Iranian missile.

 

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Perhaps you could take your love and affection a step further and drop support for the PKK? I won't hold my breath...
Israel never supported PKK. PKK is a product of Assad - best friend of Ayatulas.
 

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IRGC claim six American LCU (Landing Craft Utility) combat vessels in the port of "Al-Shuyukh" were hit.

12 hours ago I think this is a propaganda tactic, but now there is report of amount of US soldiers were sent to Kuwait hospital today.
And there is no comment from CENTCOM.
Due to the Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base has been confirmed, perhaps it time to waiting for more information. :oops:
 

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Multiple American service members were wounded and some aircraft were damaged in a March 27 Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Around 10 service members were wounded, two seriously, according to initial reports.

An Iranian missile struck the base, injuring the service members. Multiple drones were also used in the attack.

A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command declined to comment.

Multiple refueling aircraft and an E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane are among the aircraft damaged, according to preliminary information. A photo showed significant damage to a USAF E-3, but the image could not be independently confirmed.
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Well, there were huge losing for U.S. today.
 

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Iran is nowhere in the level of missile technology like Russia or China.
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So, the results of this conflict will be interesting in how it ends. Because even though they are not the best in missile technology the difference is Iran is the 1st country the US has conflict with that possesses long-range striking capabilities that Iraq, Serbia, Vietnam or Afghanistan never possessed.
 
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