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

Yasser76 said:
Yup. USAF are facing dilemma now.

As of April 2025 they only had 16 operational E-3s.

Now that is down to 15.

These are VERY old planes with their original engines. So maintenence will be a night mare. Assume a third of the fleet being fixed at some point.

Now only gives you 10 planes to play with. 4 are assigned to Pacific Air Forces and 3-4 covering Ukraine/Russia

That leaves you just 2-3 for Mid East theatre now, barely enough for just one bird in the air 24/7. This is even assuming you have nothing covering the US homeland

To put it in perspective, PAF has 10 Erieyes just for Pakistan, France has 4 AWACS just for France
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I don't think they will go for the Wedgetail either, program will probably be cancelled. I have a prediction to make, I could be wrong but I think F-35 and the Ford class carrier are the last major weapons platforms the Americans were able to make, they won't be able to make any other major weapons platform in the future. It's all downhill from here.
 
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Bengal71 said:
I don't think they will go for the E-7 either, program will probably be cancelled. I have a prediction to make, I could be wrong but I think F-35 and the Ford class carrier are the last major weapons platforms the Americans were able to make, they won't be able to make any other major weapons platform in the future. It's all downhill from here.
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They have invested in NGAD, but see your point, R&D wise they are falling so far behind they may just chuck it all in and downsize and become isolationist, pretty much what they were like between WW1 and WW2, just focus on themselves
 
Aggregate said:
Speaking of Spider Web .... I remember how the West spent years mocking Russia on its performance against Ukraine.

Meanwhile Iran has done to the US & 11 of its defacto allies in 1 month, what Ukraine could not do to Russia in 4 years combined. Russians are now having a field day, taking verbal revenge on the West, happily insulting them on daily basis.
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Exactly and Ukraine is backed by blank cheques from NATO+ US

these Americans simps just cant get over it, cry me a river

if they could just man up and admit it was a great strike I would have more respect for them

instead they start circular arguments like "oh its only 1 aircraft" or "oh E7 is on the way"
 
Yasser76 said:
They have invested in NGAD, but see your point, R&D wise they are falling so far behind they may just chuck it all in and downsize and become isolationist, pretty much what they were like between WW1 and WW2, just focus on themselves
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They will fail in the NGAD F-47 or whatever they call it. I don't think it's because of R&D, it's mainly because of the erosion of democracy, institutions, crony capitalism, bureaucracy etc. Their Zumwalt destroyer, Constellation class etc cancelled one after another after spending a lot of money, that's a trend and it will continue.
 
The GCC are in a state of limbo.

Behind the scenes they’ll be lobbying and supporting US and their Zionists brethren in undermining Iran.

Then you have Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt trying to broker a truce.

I say, Iran keep the war of attrition for some time longer, pre-empt strikes on US staging grounds, strike at GCC economic interests. If the escalation ladder goes up one notch, then activate Yemen, strike the head of snakes (UAE, Jordan) hard, and continue pounding the Zios until they do a runner to Poland.

Meanwhile, Pakistan needs to play it smart and onboard a businessman. Find a way to extract every drop of dollar from the GCC cucks.
 
Bengal71 said:
The will fail in the NGAD F-47 or whatever they call it. I don't think it's because of R&D, it's mainly because of the erosion of democracy, institutions, crony capitalism, bureaucrat etc. Their Zumwalt destroyer, Constellation class etc cancelled one after another after spending a lot of money, that's a trend and it will continue.
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Yeah, they also seem to be facing major issues just in building SSNs and SSBNs, like literally only at a third of the rate of China now. Unsure what the underlying issues are here. You have someone like Musk who is readying to create a moon base and has 40,000 sats in orbit and can churn out spaceships monthly, and you have. the US defence industry taking 5 years now just to deliver F-16s to Slovakia and Apaches to India....
 
RescueRanger said:
No sir not AI, confirmed hit but that bird is a museum piece. Wedgetail is the future of AWACS for USAF and NATO et.al.
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Brother how many E-7 wedgetails in service with USAF ? The article you mentioned doesn't specify 0005 as a retired aircraft but does mention some 13 odd examples being put up for retirement.

By the article you posted the USAF has right now two E7s that might be close to delivery with the rest scheduled to fly till 2032...

This makes the loss of the aircraft especially damning considering the replacements are not immediate.. no ?
 
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