Yes I thought it makes sense to continue striking US bases in the region given so many missiles and drones andare getting intercepted on the way to Israel. However, that assessment doesn’t really gel with them having no leadership structure. Maybe the standing orders was just go ham on regional US assets for the reasons listed above. In that case it’s not necessarily followed up by a recalibration because nobody is left to recalibrate.
Its been over 24 hours, and not every high ranking officer has been killed. Iran had plans inplace for coordinating resistance with the US being in physical control of the country, so the fact they still own all the ground means they are definitely adapting.
The ranking generals are likely on constant move, but they are almost certainly giving orders by now. Those orders very likely have long lag times- maybe measured in hours - but the military isn't fully headless. The lower down the chain you go, the better the command to the echelons below should be.
Something else to consider is that Iran promised if the US attacked them they would hit all the gulf states in a retard MAD-by-proxy since they couldn't reach the US. So its possible the switch to short range missiles and drones is part of the "final orders" but I dont' think that's what is going on. It might be individual battery commanders acting on their own initative or on pre-scripted orders but I really doubt it. The Iranians are responding to action in a way that I don't think you could prescript unless there's a Choose-your-own-adventure book or very complex flowchart of orders, and they are doing on close enough timing I think someone is at the wheel just with a very weak grip.
My guess would be Iranian high command is giving orders to division commanders to switch from long to short range missiles to try to delay the inevitable. They are hoping to get the gulf states to turn on the US and pressure the US to a ceasefire.
They are also very likely, as retards in this thread are doing, assuming the US will be tyring to go boots-on-the-gound forgetting there isnt' even the close to enough troops for an invasion in the region and it would likely take a year or more to train and stage sufficient forces. Even if Trump was inclined to do so, which he isn't.
In the video is an M270 firing what I think is an ATACMS? I thought they didn't have the range to strike Iran from nearby bases,
Hi. You must be new to milsperging. Welcome.
As you begin the rewarding trip of milsperging instead of having sex with women, you will learn a cold hard fact:
Turd world countries like Russia, China, Iran, and France will always overstate their platform performance and capabilities, using rigged tests, juiced demonstrators, scrupulously maintained by their most experienced design teams, and sometimes just "well we did math and it says this is possible but we never did it in real life".
BRICS systems will only ever hit their numbers on a good day, down hill, with a tailwind.
The US will always UNDERSTATE platform capabilities. Those numbers are what the system can do when coated in mud, manned by highschool dropouts, beaten up and after being dropped from a C-130 and landing upside down. US systems will always over perform, so this shoudn't shock you they are acking beyond their official listed range.
I'm genuinely surprised at how terrible Iran's AA defenses have been. Considering that air superiority is at the core of U.S military doctrine, you'd think they would've done more to prepare. They genuinely might've been too broke to afford layered Russian systems.
If they can't fill the power vaccum quickly, another jihadist/ extremist faction will just take over again, and nothing will change.
lol. "Shitty soviet AA would have been fine if it had just been layered". lol. Listen to yourself. That is some rich, thick cope. Russian equipment is garbage, I thought we'd all learned this over the past 4 years.
It is unlikely but not impossible that Jihadis fill the vacuum. The people in the streets have had enough of Fundie rule, but its also possible that some "moderate" faction is able to get control and then slow-boil the frog.
You think you hate the Lugenpresse but you don't hate them enough.
A thought occurred to me.
It looked like Iran’s attacks on hotels and the like were just random acts of desperate violence. However there are reports that there were very few US personnel at bases likely to be targeted in retaliation.
Could it be Iranian intelligence was aware of this and strikes on hotels were attempts to target American personnel? Or am I giving them too much credit?
lol.
Lets pretend this is true, and Iran isn't just being typical muslims and violently chimping out at everyone in range. it is still a ridiculously bad look to be acking civilian hotels in neutral 3rd party countries that have declared they will not allow strikes from their territory.
It breaks my heart to see the A-10 getting Iran sorties in 2026 without the AV8B by her side.
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Few of Russia's aircraft are true stealth fighters
NONE of Russia's aircraft are stealth fighters. They do not have good ECM packages. The Su-57 has the radar cross section of a Leer jet because they haven't been able to make the final version of the engines, so it was a cross grill holding in the temporary shakedown engines. This means all the geometry and questionable utility and wear-life coating - which is perportedly starting to peel from some of the ones Russia managed to make - is uttery worthless with the returns.
Addtionally the vector nozzles are not properly heat shielded (see: temporary engine), so they glow white-hot for IR seekers.
Problems that might be fixable, but then you still have completely shit soviet avionics to deal with.
