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

[NA71]

More and more people around the world trying hard to prove his death....

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[kobra]

That would be across all the services. The Air Force does not have that many.

Yes that's what I have said.

 

[j_hungary]

Iran won't blow up the island but will try to retake it. Through a negotiated settlement or brute force. Launching missiles at the island is unlikely- it is the beating heart of Iran. They cannot risk damage to the infrastructure on that island. May be it's a bluff to get Iran to give in?

I am not talking about Iran blowing up their own Island........I was talking about the US bombing it instead of invading it. Taking out the oil storage and processing depot,t and the island would be useless during wartime, eme as you can't really fix that when the US is flying airstrikes above, bove and you can't load up a tanker without the processing plant and the storage, as you don't just go "direct to. pump"

I was replying to the post that if the US wants to leverage Iran on reopening the strait, on the premises of "If no oil is going out, then so are yours" argument, it will be a lot easier to just threaten to bomb or actually bomb the island so they also stopthe Iranian flow with it.

 

[Ibbi32]

Reading is a critical skill. The article says "damaged or destroyed". Not destroyed. There are a couple other articles including one on Fox News reporting the 5 that were just hit were damaged and are being repaired.

Sir i think you should be more considerate of just how much a screw up this is. The fact that damage was caused over atleast 5 confirmed aircraft shows that they must be parked rather close together and considering the size of iranian warheads debris from them could easily have severely damaged 2-3. Considering that most us tankers in theatre are 60 year old aging kc-135s many of these are not worth saving even if repairs are possible. Regardless of damage the fact iranians hit us support aircraft hundreds of miles away in a base that mustve been considered safe to house them is damning enough

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Targeting those bases where there are these KC-130 refuelers is smart. Without these those bombing missions are going to be hard and might give the IRGC some breathing space to regroup, re assign targets and come back harder.

Iran is playing 4D chess. This, along with the strikes on day one that targeted those radar sites and blinded the Americans, are proof how smartly Iran are choosing their targets.

Iran, the world may not say it openly, but we stand with you against the Epstein clan who wish to impose their imperialism. God bless Iran! May this holy month of Ramadan, end American-Israeli hegemony once and for all and pave the way for a multi-polar world.

- Best wishes from a Canadian Indian Hindu

LOL....no.

The US has moved sufficient aerial refueling assets that the loss of one plus six more damaged will not hinder operations in the least.

 

[kobra]

This will likely be the reality for Iran very soon if they don't pull off their own version of the samson option.

Lets see, we are in dark times. will get darker.. Oil importing countries will hurt badly one way or other.

 

[Immortals]

If Bibi doesn’t show himself by Sunday, then something happened in Israel. I don’t think Bibi is dead, but there might have been a security incident involving high ranking Israeli official(s) and that has caused precaution for him to stay hunkered down and quiet.

Or else that man never shuts up during a war.

 

[j_hungary]

Interesting. Since you are among the few on the site that is actually a military or police veteran, what do you think this MEU is being brought in for ? I think they are brought in to bust open the Strait , ie seize some islands or coastline on the Iranian side of the Strait.

5000 marines, even with the 82nd backing, won't do any of that; you need a few divisions of troops to try to invade the Iranian coastline.

The Marine deployment is most likely for posturing; that amount can take Kharg Island, but as I said in my previous post, taking the island creates more problems than the US wants, and not for a big gain. If not, they are probably looking at something to monitor the coast with those Marines dynamically. Probably run some interdiction mission along the Strait.

 

[NA71]

If Bibi doesn’t show himself by Sunday, then something happened in Israel. I don’t think Bibi is dead, but there might have been a security incident involving high ranking Israeli official(s) and that has caused precaution for him to stay hunkered down and quiet.

Or else that man never shuts up during a war.

Two high level meeting have taken place in 4 days in Israel, both were headed by some senior minister....bibi were absent ....

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Sir i think you should be more considerate of just how much a screw up this is. The fact that damage was caused over atleast 5 confirmed aircraft shows that they must be parked rather close together and considering the size of iranian warheads debris from them could easily have severely damaged 2-3. Considering that most us tankers in theatre are 60 year old aging kc-135s many of these are not worth saving even if repairs are possible. Regardless of damage the fact iranians hit us support aircraft hundreds of miles away in a base that mustve been considered safe to house them is damning enough

Have you been around air operations? Those aircraft are parked no closer to each other than they would be Stateside.

Is it possible Iran used a cluster munition?

Granted, the aircraft are 60 years old. So is the B-52. There are plenty of spare parts available in the boneyard at D-M if necessary for the repairs. Or, an airframe gets reactivated.

For now, there is more than sufficient capacity in theater that the impact to air operations will be negligible.

 

[Immortals]

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[j_hungary]

Yeah I don’t think the Iranians are going to allow American do what Russia did crimea we will have trump right after it was American land just like Greenland goodnight but liked your previous post

Even with 10% casualty (that's the low end of this limit), you are talking about 500 marines wounded or killed over this, the public is not going to go for this, and then you are going to need to defend it from Iran and a hostile population (If any).

That's not a good move, no matter how you slice it.

 

[Immortals]

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Fires are still raging at the targeted site near the US Embassy in Baghdad, a sniper position and C-RAM radar site were targeted

 

[EugeneP]

I would say the impacts are non-existent in the grand scheme of things. When the US drops a bomb they drop a bomb. And they have much more on the way. I was looking at skyline of lebanon the other day and there were thick clouds of smoke everywhere. Iran has not been able to do this to Israel. Nor to any neighboring country thus far and the US managed to do that (to lebanon) within a few hours. And, we all know they can do much more damage if they want to.

I feel as though this is basically like Afghanistan vs Pakistan

Going by the latest:

Iran Update Evening Special Report, March 13, 2026

The US-Israeli combined force continued to target Iranian internal security infrastructure on March 13 to degrade the regime’s capabilities.

understandingwar.org

We see


In the last 4 days, Iran has been launching single digit ballistic missiles on average and drones in the 20s and 30s. Since this is all their military assets left, there is not a lot of fighting that Iran can do. They are probably focusing on controlling the Hormuz. What U.S. and Israel will do when the last Iranian missile and drone have been fired remains a mystery. The "war" will end in a deadlock unless they can bring ground troops. They have probably destroyed all targets worth destroying by air by now.

 

[GoshtWalaPulao]

Oh one last hope that Iran has besides literal explosive damage.... Cyber attacks. Cripple the US cyber infrastructure and you'll see some real mazza go on in the lands of the devils.