Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

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For any military kiwis here, is it stupid to still try to apply for the military in a year from now with everything going on? That was my intention before the war was announced. But now I uhhh, not try too sure about it. I still wanna go to college though and the military bemefita would be nice to have, the community would be nice to have. I'm talking about the tech side of things, not physical combat, I don't think I'd even be qualified for physical combat, or the military in general, but I still wanna give it a shot.
I don't wanna hear the opinions on non military Kiwis.
As for the war itself, I don't know why retards are siding with Iran over Israel. Even if you don't agree with the war, you technically have no choice in the matter to stop it. And hypothetically I'd rather kill third worlders than kikes.
 
deermeat said:
For any military kiwis here, is it stupid to still try to apply for the military in a year from now with everything going on? That was my intention before the war was announced. But now I uhhh, not try too sure about it. I still wanna go to college though and the military bemefita would be nice to have, the community would be nice to have.
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If your mentality is you don't want to fight in a war, then don't join the military.
 
Burnt Fish said:
Ukraine takes down over a thousand shaheds a day on some days and does it in a cost effective way.
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Russia has never used more than 800 gerans in one day (they average closer to 300-500) as far as I can remember and the methods that the Ukrainians use are not cost effective at the moment. They're forced to use patriot systems or flak most of the time and interceptor drones have pretty consistently cost more to make than Gerans due to the fact that Gerans don't need their electronics to be as advanced (You see this same problem with ballistic missiles vs interceptors.) The only way to actually deal with the problem of your enemey mass producing both cheap missiles and drones is to target the source and bomb every warehouse and industrial/commerical building large enough to be used to produce one or both of these things.
 
draggs said:
Western nations bring back their dead at all costs because that's honorable and civilized what their Jew masters tell them to do.
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The barbarians know what's up. Those bodies aren't coming back as zombies and they aren't coming back like Jesus either. Never risk more dead bodies to retrieve cadavers.
 
Farm Hand said:
Hasan claims that the photo of Ayatollah Khomeini (the first guy) is in many American households as "a symbol of successful resistance against Western imperialism" who unfortunately just "didn't live long enough to see out what the [Iranian Revolution] movement would turn into," Khomeini was the first supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran for a decade.
Hasan on Ayatollah Khomeini.mp4
About 5hr35min in today's stream.
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I genuinely believe that Hasan is special needs and was just never diagnosed. A raging, sputtering, horny approximation of a man.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Does this look AI to anyone else?
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The vehicles look too accurate to be made by the free AI Iran's been using. I'm 73% certain it's real.
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Hezbollah is going to spill the tea on what the fuck happened earlier in Lebanon.



B-1s are landing at RAF Fairford on their way to the Gulf now that Keir Starmer bent the knee to Trump. Fun Persian language fact of the day: Keir in Persian means penis.

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Pro-Hezbollah Media Al-Mayadeen was seemingly hacked. Can anyone read it?

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Alleged photo showing the AN/TPY-2 radar of a THAAD anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system destroyed by Iran at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The source is MES so my thumb is hovering over X to doubt.
 
D-X-G-X said:
The barbarians know what's up. Those bodies aren't coming back as zombies and they aren't coming back like Jesus either. Never risk more dead bodies to retrieve cadavers.
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If you want a cold pragmatic argumentation to why bringing back your dead is still a smart move.

Returning bodies to families to properly mourn and bury their loved ones is less damaging to the homeland's collective will to continue fighting than just telling those family members "lol your son is rotting in a desert alone now"

People are not autistic machines and giving your civilian populace their chance to properly grieve is of benefit to a nation using a volunteer fighting force and a civilian military.
 
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draggs said:
btw I don't give a flying fuck if gas prices go through the roof all summer and Democrats win 8 gorillion seats and Trump gets impeached and convicted and Gavin Newsom gets two terms. If that's the cost of neutering the Khomeinist Islamic revolution with a hacksaw, I'm fine with paying it. The benefits to the United States and the world at large of making them impotent for a long time outweigh the consequences for Drumpf's approval rating to me

To the contrary, I think the Ford is moving to the Red Sea because they expect the Houthis to take a shot at disrupting oil exports from Yanbu
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you are jewish.

never trust the word of a jew.
 
mindlessobserver said:
If your mentality is you don't want to fight in a war, then don't join the military.
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I don't mind fighting in a war I guess, at least I think I don't, though I will admit I don't know much about what it MEANS to fight in a war when it comes to those not physically partaking in the combat and rather doing the behind of scenes work. All the stories I hear were from those forced to physically fight, but I know that even if I am physically disqualified from combat I can still technically be qualified for the tech/IT side of things. I'm physically disabled but I'm still independent, and since this would be a year from now I have plenty of time to teach myself the needed skill sets.
I know it still wouldn't be "safe" but the question is would it be worth the risk in general? Hence why I want Military Kiwis and their opinions on the matter. How fulfilling was it for all of you? Do you regret it? Did you find a community? Was the pay worth it? Etc.
 
Exegesis said:
Russia has never used more than 800 gerans in one day (they average closer to 300-500) as far as I can remember and the methods that the Ukrainians use are not cost effective at the moment. They're forced to use patriot systems or flak most of the time and interceptor drones have pretty consistently cost more to make than Gerans due to the fact that Gerans don't need their electronics to be as advanced (You see this same problem with ballistic missiles vs interceptors.) The only way to actually deal with the problem of your enemey mass producing both cheap missiles and drones is to target the source and bomb every warehouse and industrial/commerical building large enough to be used to produce one or both of these things.
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I might have misread a figure on the high end of their drone deployments per day ultimately doesn't change much of my point in the fact that they have been effective at intercepting even large volumes of them.

As for them being cost effective. They are cheap enough that even if they aren't cheaper than the Russian shaheds themselves, they are MASSIVELY more sustainable than the types of interceptions we are using currently in the middle east. an interceptor drone's price tag is measured in the thousands, a patriot intercepter round's price is measured in millions. And that difference is all that matters much in this equation.
 
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I got nothing to add other than I hope the Iranian people become a free nation and that the Americans and Israelis don’t kill too many of them when aiming for the muzzie fascists.
 
deermeat said:
I don't mind fighting in a war I guess, at least I think I don't, though I will admit I don't know much about what it MEANS to fight in a war when it comes to those not physically partaking in the combat and rather doing the behind of scenes work. All the stories I hear were from those forced to physically fight, but I know that even if I am physically disqualified from combat I can still technically be qualified for the tech/IT side of things. I'm physically disabled but I'm still independent, and since this would be a year from now I have plenty of time to teach myself the needed skill sets.
I know it still wouldn't be "safe" but the question is would it be worth the risk in general? Hence why I want Military Kiwis and their opinions on the matter. How fulfilling was it for all of you? Do you regret it? Did you find a community? Was the pay worth it? Etc.
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There are a lot of desk jobs if you score high enough on the ASVAB to qualify for them. Admin, Contracting, Finance, Logistics, etc.
They deploy, too, but they're not on the front lines or anything. I'd recommend the Air Force if you want better living conditions with a lower chance of deployment.
All jobs across all branches pay the same. It's all dependent on rank. They'll give you enough to cover your rent and monthly food bills.
You can calculate out what you expect your bimonthly paycheck to be using any variety of calculator you can find on Google.
 
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