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

ShapurII said:
Yes, in a potential war with the US, if we perform like we did this time, the cost of war will be about $60 billion dollars for 3 months of war. That's nothing for the US. The US has given twice that number just as aid to Ukraine! We need to increase the cost of war by 5-10 times to establish deterrence.

The whole point of fighting asymmetrically for a weaker belligerent is to inflict heavy financial and human capital cost on the enemy through cheap means and bravery to stop the war. We failed at both. A total of $8 billion dollars for 12 days (including damage done to Israel) is nothing for these people. The US military budget is one trillion dollars.
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Average 4.5 gen fighter jet price, including indirect costs, is about 100 million USD (life cycle costs maybe 300 million USD). If the production cost of a single shahed drone in Iran=15000 USD, it means 6600 drones = 1 fighter jet.

I would go for drones, launchers, missiles, air defence systems instead of fighter jets.

If we saw massive amounts of drones being fired towards the enemy during the 12 day war, we could conclude that the decision of not buying fighter jets was a well thought decision. But unfortunately that didnt happen.
 
shapurzolaktaf said:
Average 4.5 gen fighter jet price, including indirect costs, is about 100 million USD (life cycle costs maybe 300 million USD). If the production cost of a single shahed drone in Iran=15000 USD, it means 6600 drones = 1 fighter jet.

I would go for drones, launchers, missiles, air defence systems instead of fighter jets.

If we saw massive amounts of drones being fired towards the enemy during the 12 day war, we could conclude that the decision of not buying fighter jets was a well thought decision. But unfortunately that didnt happen.
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Honestly, we need both but as it turns out, we have neither lol
 
shapurzolaktaf said:
Average 4.5 gen fighter jet price, including indirect costs, is about 100 million USD (life cycle costs maybe 300 million USD). If the production cost of a single shahed drone in Iran=15000 USD, it means 6600 drones = 1 fighter jet.

I would go for drones, launchers, missiles, air defence systems instead of fighter jets.

If we saw massive amounts of drones being fired towards the enemy during the 12 day war, we could conclude that the decision of not buying fighter jets was a well thought decision. But unfortunately that didnt happen.
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Is there a reason why Iran didn't fired hundreds of drones a day against Israel? Don't tell me some nonsense that "Iranian commander is afraid that firing too much drones would cause too many Israeli military and civillian casualties that would make their finger on the Nuclear Weapon trigger touch more earlier?"
 
StrategicBear said:
Is there a reason why Iran didn't fired hundreds of drones a day against Israel? Don't tell me some nonsense that "Iranian commander is afraid that firing too much drones would cause too many Israeli military and civillian casualties that would make their finger on the Nuclear Weapon trigger touch more earlier?"
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TBH I've no idea, it's a question for many of us.
 
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Well it's safe to say without a proper Air Force and proper AD it's hard to restart civilian nuclear program out in the open because they will bomb it again.

But to make nuclear weapons via underground enrichment beneath mountain bases is still possible......if Khamenei allows it😑
 
First, it was missiles, now it is UAV. UAVs cannot replace an air force.

But hey...As an Air Force guy, am going to go out on a limb and speak for the entire USAF that we hope everybody replace their air forces with UAVs. 😁
 
BigMela2onin said:
I don't think so, what Iranian is going to get fight in the streets for those f*gs, especially now after the american/jew aggression? You can even wait to execute them till later; quietly put them under house arrest and keep them away from decision making for now.
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Nice language about your countrymen.....your group is the one that the Iranians should be afraid of.
 
Iran acted with and exposed great incompetence.

The Ismail Haniyeh assassination took place in July 2024, Iran had nearly a year to clean up the Mossad networks inside the country.

Ismail Haniyeh was a state invited honored guest of Iran. He was killed in Iranian government provided housing.

The fact the Israelis knew his Room # reveals a deep intelligence operations in Iran.

US military analyst gives a gloating American military perspective on the Iran-Israel conflict.

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Iranian casualty number continues to rise, now approaching 1100 Iranians killed, of which more than 700 are civilians.

By contrast, only 28 Israelis were killed. c. 39x more Iranians killed than Israelis.

Yet our leaders insist we should celebrate this divine victory. If this is victory, I don't want to see what they would admit was a loss!
 
A senior Israeli official says Israeli intelligence shows that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not removed from the three nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan before they were struck by the US last month amid Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, and has not been moved since.

The stockpile of some 400 kg of uranium enriched to 60 percent stayed there, and was not removed, the unnamed official tells Reuters.

The official suggests, however, that the Iranians might still be able to gain access to the enriched uranium at Isfahan — where the International Atomic Energy Agency said the stockpile was believed to be located before the war — but that it would be very difficult to remove it.
 
ShapurII said:
100,000 drones are not going to cut it for us against enemies in the caliber of Israel or the US. It's going to be enough for 3-5 months at most.
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This is an age of hypersonic speed. Drones are a joke.

Israel and its allies' pilots can literally fly to Cyprus, have lunch, sip coffee, then reload interceptors and fly back to Israel before Iran's drones get anywhere near Israel.

Drones make sense in the India-Pakistan or Ukraine-Russia context because the adversaries are right next to each other.
 
Developereo said:
This is an age of hypersonic speed. Drones are a joke.

Israel and its allies' pilots can literally fly to Cyprus, have lunch, sip coffee, then reload interceptors and fly back to Israel before Iran's drones get anywhere near Israel.

Drones make sense in the India-Pakistan or Ukraine-Russia context because the adversaries are right next to each other.
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the point is they still have to intercept it, and while they are busy with that they can't be flying over and bombing Iran and they are using AAMs
 
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