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

[Garcia Sea]

If even one pilot had been captured and the footage released, it would have shocked American public opinion. Allies might have also begun to distrust US military power and reconsider their subservient stance.
However, by allowing the historic rescue operation to succeed, US confidence deepened considerably, and the opportunity to create momentum toward genuine peace disappeared.
There are turning points in war, and this was one of them. IRI undoubtedly missed an opportunity to change the course of the war.
The US will learn valuable information about the negligence of Iranian ground forces and the weakness of their low-altitude defenses, and will use this information in the future.
How can they attack invading tanks with FPV when they can't attack massive transport planes that are parked and waiting, even though their approximate location is known?
It was revealed that IRI's ground forces were not ready to fight.

 

[Salza]

You are coping

The poster doesn't realize how many Iranians were killed during that resuce mission like Iranian lives doesn't matter. For him and some other folks, downing an American jet or two is the only deal.

 

[Immortals]

Trust me, if they already had the GPS coordinates of the WSO, it wouldn't have taken them 24 hours to find him and rescue him.

Technically it took around 48 hours to rescue the WSO.

And it appears that the reason it took that long was to map and get the equipment in place to stage the operation.

It was stated that the pilot place the locator becon and hid on a ridge. I’m assuming that locator beacon sends it signals to military sats flying above rather than your standard GPS tracker.

 

[Kyussis]

and worth every penny...... of which they have stop making.

I'm sure you won't mind repaying it the next time you lose an aircraft over Iran.

 

[Falcon29]

What a daring US mission to reterive the fallen solider/pilot. Expecting a hollywood movie in few years time. A bit embarrassing for Iran. Clearly when you don't have an airforce, enemy can fly their machines at will at your own skies.

Anyways similar incident may occur in the next upcoming days as US planes will keep violating Iranian airspace.

Just watch Kandahar , it's basically the plot

 

[SolarWarden]

tbh it was a waste, the pilot isnt going to be flying any aircraft and will probably go on disability. If I were in charge of CENTCOM I would've just left him there.

 

[Fatman17]

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[Takayoshi]

Iran is claiming to have downed some type of aircraft during operation:

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Question for military experts:

C-130 landed on the ground and got destroyed but no body was inside the aircraft? What was the point?

 

[ShapurII]

Technically it took around 48 hours to rescue the WSO.

And it appears that the reason it took that long was to map and get the equipment in place to stage the operation.

It was stated that the pilot place the locator becon and hid on a ridge. I’m assuming that locator beacon sends it signals to military sats flying above rather than your standard GPS tracker.

Didn't you post a map yesterday where the area they were searching to find him had been highlighted?

 

[Kyussis]

The poster doesn't realize how many Iranians were killed during that resuce mission like Iranian lives doesn't matter. For him and some other folks, downing an American jet or two is the only deal.

Go to hell!!!

 

[EugeneP]

If even one pilot had been captured and the footage released, it would have shocked American public opinion. Allies might have also begun to distrust US military power and reconsider their subservient stance.
However, by allowing the historic rescue operation to succeed, US confidence deepened considerably, and the opportunity to create momentum toward genuine peace disappeared.
There are turning points in war, and this was one of them. IRI undoubtedly missed an opportunity to change the course of the war.
The US will learn valuable information about the negligence of Iranian ground forces and the weakness of their low-altitude defenses, and will use this information in the future.
How can they attack invading tanks with FPV when they can't attack massive transport planes that are parked and waiting, even though their approximate location is known?
It was revealed that IRI's ground forces were not ready to fight.

You are reading too much into one rescue. Its success does not equal winning the war and a failure would not have guaranteed a win for Iran.

 

[Immortals]

It will indeed spawn a lot of movies in the future, but movies dont win wars at the end of the day.

I don’t think the future movie will be as impactful as the movies American sniper or Lone Survivor, if oil does spike to $200/barrel and the world economy crashes.

People won’t appreciate being reminded of this unnecessary war if that were to happen.

 

[ShapurII]

Go to hell!!!

Calm down, bro. He didn't say anything offensive.

 

[Kyussis]

how do you know they haven't lost a single soldier? the downed helicopter ? they all survived ?

He is all doom and gloom. In his head Iran just lost the war!

 

[Gripen9]

This ops success may embolden US ro launch a ground invasion. Iran has no viable means of rapidky deploying counter forces via air mobility.