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

[Persian Gulf]

IRGC-ASF releases video of day time launches of Fattah-1, Ghadr, and Khorramshahr MRBMs (and Shahed-136 drones)

 

[Immortals]

Iran needs to stop wasting missiles on costal targets especially if the missile is a cheap Qadr since they have 500m-1KM CEPs

 

[Ali_Baba]

Pilot of USAF F-35 fighter jet successfully hit by Iranian air defences has shrapnel wounds, F-35 made "hard landing" and is severely damaged

That jet "could" well be a write off, a stealth jet 'form' is part of its 'function' ie its stealth shield. That stealth shield is based on its very precise shaping ie form, and materials. While the jet made it home with it pilot, with the type of damage it has received, can it be repaired? It is not the same as repairing a 4/4.5 Gen platform.

 

[TallarnDesertRaider]

The repeated talk by journalists in the west of occupying Kharg to somehow unblock the Strait is just comical to me. Any even relatively minuscule amount of googling up a map of the region will show that any attempt to unblock or take complete control of the Strait will necessitate a full land invasion of practically the entire southern coast of Iran. Controlling one island far inside the Gulf that isn't the focal point of anti-naval activity coming from the Iran in any way, shape, or form by definition will do nothing.

 

[Watandar]

The repeated talk by journalists in the west of occupying Kharg to somehow unblock the Strait is just comical to me. Any even relatively minuscule amount of googling up a map of the region will show that any attempt to unblock or take complete control of the Strait will necessitate a full land invasion of practically the entire southern coast of Iran. Controlling one island far inside the Gulf that isn't the focal point of anti-naval activity coming from the Iran in any way, shape, or form by definition will do nothing.

The plan is to occupy Kharg on one end and interdict Iranian tankers on the other. But analysts are also pointing out at the huge flaws in the idea. Taking and keeping Kharg could be very expensive and Iranian tankers are carrying Chinese oil.

 

[Arash]

Some of these need confirmation from Non-Western sources

Incredible to have so much generals and heads killed, I wonder how many traitors are still remaining in their vicinity.

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

I was listening to the War Nerd podcast the other day and they had on Sunni Bahraini--Canadian guest speaker. He made a few points about Bahrain's role in all of this.

• The ruling party has fast-tracked citizenship of Egyptians, Jordanians, Yemenis, and Pakistan (Sunnis) to help suppress the Shia majority.
• There is a racial hierarchy in Bahrain where Pakistanis are on the lower end of the pole in the security forces. The top jobs are for the other Arabs
• Manana has this street full of bars (typical where Westerners like to go and relax ie Bangkok, Okinawa, Seoul etc) which is full of South-Asian S*x workers, and underage Bahraini girls (ages 13-16) go and befriend American military members ages 23-25 and start physical relationships. The parents of these girls are embarrassed and ashamed, and out of shame do not bring this up, even if they did, the service-member will moved out of the country.
• Bahrain arrested one of their citizen for criticizing Israel at a conference in Beirut and on his return to Bahrain arrested him for insulting an ally.
• Bahrain is very close to Israel like UAE. Both are the top countries in the gulf fully entrenched in the "Abraham Accords."
• Ruling party is heavily depended on the bridge that connects to Saudi Arabia for all its needs now since the SoH is shut down. The Highway is their lifeline.

@r3alist @Master Chief @hussain0216 @Watandar @PAKISTANFOREVER @Taimoor

Pakistanis should keep WELL OUT of this gulfi filth. The gulfis/bharainis are not capable of military fighting and Pakistanis should not involve themselves in their mess.

 

[Watandar]

Country that has bombed everyone else in the entire Mideast points fingers at Iran lol.

 

[tower9]

Iran will face an even worse fate than a potential carpet bombing like Dresden should it surrender. And to prevent that, Iran should really mobilize its large population, its allies in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and elsewhere to take the war to the borders of Israel as it had existed by late 2024.
A war of attrition may or may not be viable of Iran. Those who attacked it have factored in short-medium term casualties and economic losses for long term gains except they have probably missed the human elements like the unpredictable large populations spread in the region.

Just need to get rid of that Zionist terrorist al Sharaa that's in the way.

 

[K2RULEZ]

Trump admits the US attacked Iran "out of habit" and for Israel

US and European markets dark red. Trump must be proud he did this for his best friend Netanyahu.

 

[Immortals]

 

[dbc]

I agree, it only means they will
Need to fly higher. They don’t have complete aerial superiority. The fighter was allegedly taken down by mobile IR weapons system meaning , the lower level stike capability is not open to drones or low flying aircraft.

Strategically this results in
- Higher cost of operations as planes have to fly high with full weapons load meaning, aerial refueling and complicated logistics.
- Lower tempo as they need to operate with maned aircraft or HALE drone assets
- they can’t bring in larger bombers as the airspace is not open and it highly probable that Iran is still hiding some s-300 mpu systems

not true, the A-10 warthog has been operating over Iran for a few days now. With precision munitions higher altitude operations is easy. Jets in general operate more fuel efficiently at higher altitudes, less drag since air density is lower. There is no hiding an operating S-300 unit, IR missiles are a greater challenge since there is no radar warning receiver to alert the pilot of an impending missile launch. The time to decoy or deceive an inbound IR missile is more compressed vs a radar guided missile.
On the flip side, IR seekers are easier to decoy. The point is however that a stealth aircraft has no business getting low to the ground. under those circumstances the VLO platform is operating outside its sweet spot by giving up its main advantage of stand off engagement.

 

[FUB]

Interesting