Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

there is a possibility that PAC 3 battery was on auto mode.

this mode use to be on MIM-23 I-Hawk, i still remember one battery was in auto-mode unmanned in starting of Gulf war 1992 at Kuwait, it opened fire automatically shot down SU-22s and Mi-17 helicopters of Iraq.

I think PAC-3 battery was on Auto Mode.
If this is the case, then the FO should label the Airspace OOB......You don't fly in a PAC-3 (or just about anything) on Auto mode.....It's the same as you don't draw aircraft into an AO while it's under Active Artillery support........
 
US reputation amongst Arabs now taking a hit, US/Israeli/Arab interceptor stockpiles depleting. US losing aircraft and men.

Xi and Putin feet up watching the show. This, by default, will quicken China's military rise and I would say standing in the Middle East after all this is over
I wonder what will happen with the US Senate hearing on War powers vote?

From everything I have read and seen so far Iran has taken the strategy based on the past two interactions with the US that trump can't keep this up forever and has a timescale to work to.

So they just need to hold out long enough for the clock to run out... Then they can just claim a victory by opening communication without having to negotiate from a position of weakness as trump would want.

The only concern here is the regional conflict brewing may be a flashpoint that neither of the three dramatis personae have taken into their initial calculation.

The US can absorb the losses but will be working to a timescale. At what point does the pressure get too much domestically or the pivot towards international involvement once ALOC and SLOCs are threatened or disrupted long enough to cause financial loss.
 
100% if Iran is left standing, no matter how bloodied, it will be a massive victory for them., massive

Right. A much larger version of Hezbollah still standing after the 2006 conflict with Israel.
 
Why 'on purpose'? After the bad news of the 3 US Servicemen killed, 3 downed jets is embarrassing.
I don't know as I said, you need to have a lot of overrides for this to happen.

On purpose does not mean they are fragging our plane; it may also mean they truly believe those are Iranian jets and actively engage those F-15s. It sounds crazy, but it's within the realm of statistical possibility.
 
On purpose does not mean they are fragging our plane; it may also mean they truly believe those are Iranian jets and actively engage those F-15s. It sounds crazy, but it's within the realm of statistical possibility.

Iranian jets? And that too so far from Iranian airspace engaging US jets? Almost impossible.
Incompetence or sabotage.
 
100% if Iran is left standing, no matter how bloodied, it will be a massive victory for them., massive
It will be a victory that will transformed their country for Generations to come, they took on USA/Israel/UK and same time bomb the crap out of Arab scum neighbors, I am telling you that I work with some US ex-soldiers who served in Iraq/Afghanistan, their respect for Iran is at all time high, and despite the all the investments and Billions of dollars purchases they still despise the Saudi's for various reasons.
In fact recently met a Army Soldier who came back from Kuwait just few weeks ago, he was telling stories about the 12 day Iran war and how they were watching missiles flying in both directions, he was drunk which made his way of telling story even funnier.
 

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