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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You can tell an electric oven "At [time tomorrow], heat up to [temp] and run for [duration]." I don't think putting the dish into the oven or taking it out counts as breaking sabbath, so you just timeshift the "turning the oven on/off" part.
that part is only allowed for some holidays not shabbos. it must stay on for the whole of shabbos and not turn on any lights or displays. the food has be completely cooked and in the oven before shabbos
 
that's a good sentiment, and I like that. Just do away with the anal retention to the point that you have to come up with wacky light switches and special settings on your ovens. Turning the lights on or off or cooking a meal is not in anyway disrupting your spirituality or preventing you from deepening your connection with God and your family. This stuff reminds me of Medieval monks flagellating themselves for committing sin, both are taking a good concept (in the case of the monks, feeling regret and remorse for wrong-doings) and turning the dial up to 11.
Yeah, I'd rather flagellate myself than eat cold hot pockets
None of this happened. Western militaries don't tell combat units you're going to 'training' until the last second then say haha no you're going to combat. That kind of bait and switch has happened to some Russian soldiers, undoubtedly that's where the idea for that part of the story came from. Doing that shit destroys morale and neglects preparation, that = lots more casualties. There is no invasion force in place. The only place that the Immediate Response Force or a Marine Expeditionary Unit would be large enough to take is Kharg island, there's nowhere else in Iran 2,000-4,000 grunts would be enough. This religious bullshit is warmed-over muh Christian nationalism fantasies libshits have been talking about for years. I expect Kharg will be seized at some point, but right now any force put there would be hideously vulnerable to Iranian bombardment
I thought about reports from Russian invasion of Ukraine early on as well, this is as if generative AI ripped these stories to write this shit
 
Wacky jewish hijinks seem to have ensued this night, with a raid on a Lebanese town on the syrian border
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this tweet is from the times of israel miliary corespondent, very well connected on idf matters


location:
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Massive amounts of air strikes, far away from the previous strikes in the south (bottom of map) and in Beirut (the western cluster on the above map)
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Possible, very hard to believe, explanation being reported. Note the saudis knowing a motive here when Fabian doesn't would be highly unusual
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To be fair, the US has had lousy SHORAD for ages now. Lack of need, I guess. Too much time fighting weaker enemies who can't field anything fancier than an RPG-7.

Surely some MIT kid could hook a robotic arm to an M61 or GAU-19 or even just a typical minigun and a radar dish, and voila, instant solve to most of these smaller drone issues and probably cruise missiles too.

Actually, we shot down a flying aircraft carrier.
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No, that's just a Land-Carrier from Deserts of Kharak.
 
Surely some MIT kid could hook a robotic arm to an M61 or GAU-19 or even just a typical minigun and a radar dish, and voila, instant solve to most of these smaller drone issues and probably cruise missiles too.
You're just describing a Phalax CIWS

It also costs $3,000+ per second to fire a M61, doesn't fix the asymmetry problem.
 

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I don't understand how anyone can vote Democrat ever again.
Who exactly does this persuade to vote Republican that wasn't already?

Iranian liberals who will still be mad the Islamic Republic survived? Zionist Jews who are big into progressive politics? Gay rights activists? Single issue defense spending voters? Liberal oil executives who are happy about the price increases?
 
It would almost be cathartic to see Iran lob some missiles at them too.
Nigger leave me alone, we already have two existential crises in the form of upcoming water shortages and the nuclear plant which surely won't be mismanaged through both egyptian and russian incompetence into becoming chernobyl 2.0

I feel genuine jealousy towards anyone born in actually decent country because their desire to improve it is not built upon utopian daydreams and is actually feasible.
 
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Sorry Mr. Racewar 1488, gonna' snipe here. From Visegrad 24:
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This doesn't sound like the 'famous Iranian hospitality to me', more like "Trust me bro we're being real nice right now -- no we're not running out of munitions and using this as a cope, no, totally not. We're being good people here! We don't WANT to bomb you; we still can, we totally can! See? We just hit the UAE with a drone again! Just trust us and leave us alone, we're still a threat k thnx". It's pure cope, but I can't wait to hear the third-worldist in a discord server I occupied (guy that left America for Canada, hates Israel, hates America, will back any country that fights America) thinks of this. Nothing good, for sure.
 
Sorry Mr. Racewar 1488, gonna' snipe here. From Visegrad 24:
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This doesn't sound like the 'famous Iranian hospitality to me', more like "Trust me bro we're being real nice right now -- no we're not running out of munitions and using this as a cope, no, totally not. We're being good people here! We don't WANT to bomb you; we still can, we totally can! See? We just hit the UAE with a drone again! Just trust us and leave us alone, we're still a threat k thnx". It's pure cope, but I can't wait to hear the third-worldist in a discord server I occupied (guy that left America for Canada, hates Israel, hates America, will back any country that fights America) thinks of this. Nothing good, for sure.
I can see it either way because this new guy might have realized bombing all of their neighbors is retarded and now that he has control over the drones and missiles he told the grunts to stop pissing off everyone arround them by being a headless chicken, and I can see them being low on ability to deliver their weapons stockpile to targets.
 
Sorry Mr. Racewar 1488, gonna' snipe here. From Visegrad 24:
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This doesn't sound like the 'famous Iranian hospitality to me', more like "Trust me bro we're being real nice right now -- no we're not running out of munitions and using this as a cope, no, totally not. We're being good people here! We don't WANT to bomb you; we still can, we totally can! See? We just hit the UAE with a drone again! Just trust us and leave us alone, we're still a threat k thnx". It's pure cope, but I can't wait to hear the third-worldist in a discord server I occupied (guy that left America for Canada, hates Israel, hates America, will back any country that fights America) thinks of this. Nothing good, for sure.

Yes....we uh... totally won't bomb you.... um...er...please don't attack us
 
I haven't been keeping up with the thread, can someone summarize me what happened in last two days?
Total Muslim Death.

im not speaking to that, im not as informed, just sharing what I DO know
You are not informed at all and it would be better for everyone if you would shut the fuck up and stop retarding up the thread with your Pakistani-grade no-info takes. You post like you play scratch-off tickets.

You are posting every turd word cold take you can get your hands on like they haven't been repeatedly debunked. You have the IQ of liberal living on MLK Boulevard. You slorp down BROOOOCS multipolar propaganda with no gag reflex. You are the retarded sort of nigger who will trade a fifty for two twenties because two is more than one.
We get it, you are big mad at Orange Man because he keeps fucking with your gay homocrush. But you lack the intelligence to actually be convincing. You just spam low effort fake propaganda.
You are the sort nigger who is just waiting for that Nigeria Prince to get back to you after you gave him your bank account info, becasue you dont think anyone from the home country would ever try to betray you.

Now, Post hands.

six sources familiar with the group’s preparations say.
Interesting article, but remember:
If they don't put their names and titles on it, it is likely bullshit fan fiction. Either of Reporter, or of the "source famiiiar with". Especially when it includes blazing hottakes and earth shattering revelations like

Hezbollah had been readying its military stockpiles and its command-and-control structure for an eventual rematch with Israel, the six sources said.
Hezbollah was readying for a war with Israel??!?!!?!?!?!??! STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES HUGE SCOOP JUST CAME IN!

(I'm not intending to pick on you, you post some really good stuff. Just lamenting how utterly fucking worthless the modern lugenpress is)

>The U.S. has reverse-engineered Iran's Shahed drone to make the LUCAS, a $35,000 clone.

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Point of order. The LUCAS isn't a shaheed clone. It is a clone of German drone, and that german drone is what the Iranians stole to make the Shaheed.

Most of the Middle Eastern nations seem to be dangerously underprepared for armed conflict.
That is because they learned the wrong lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. They assumed if the US came to fuck with them, they would just turn their inbred cousin fuckers loose with IEDs again, have snipers shoot from kindergartens and mosques.

They weren't ready for any sort of true ground war because the expectation was "any ground war will be a shooting gallery for the americans". Or in the event of the Americans invading, the invadee will be to distracted attacking the americans.
So the only war they were ready for is what you see in Syria or Lebanon: goatfucking proxies doing Haji shit with some missiles chanting allahu snackbar.

They are 2000% not ready for "US just bombs all your command and control and never gives you a chance to set up IEDs".

Understanding the great effort of logistics for an accumulation of troop/ship movement for amphibious assaults that could takes countless months and be seen very early on by satellite imagery especially in port cities like Xiamen and Guangzhou? Nah, life is like a videogame, just click *spawn invasion force off the coast of China* and it happens over night!
No one ever grasps this. You don't just cash in your points and have a unit magically appear. The US has carriers and bases already in region and we still took a month to move air assets into position.

On the note of Mossad shenanigans (and certainly this would be a way bigger deal than an Artesh grunt who may or may not be a Mossad agent wearing a fake mustache ski mask defecting), news outlets are beginning to report on Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani having been executed on suspicion of being a Mossad agent himself. This is the guy who keeps miraculously surviving assassination attempts that kill all his friends & co-workers, BTW. Must be stressed however that this isn't fully verified yet, as hilarious as it would be no matter whether he really is on the Jewish payroll or actually innocent of this particular charge.
I want this to true, and then I want it turn out that he was not the Mossad Mole, just a patsy. Like its his secretary or something.

Besides, it's not like we can't multitask.
This is what BROOOCS fags and Eurotards forget. The US can handle multiple problems at once. You can do this when your military is funded.

The Kurds have declared neutrality, the PAK is simply 1 (small) political party within the KRG, the KRG has decided to be neutral, western media wont report this as they want the Kurds to be their "Ghost of Kiev" boots on the ground
There is not real Kurd authority, just a bunch of Commie collectives. That commie collective is saying they are neutral.

Hey, remember when Trump said right at the outset that the operation would take four to six weeks, and a bunch of random journos proceeded to take a bunch of out of context quotes from a bunch of random staffers to stretch that into four to six months?
To be overly fair to the retarded lugenpress:
They are seeing budgetary allotments targeting September (end of the US government fiscal year) and assuming operations will run that long vs. it being bureaucrats trying to settle internal budgets.

Ticks are literally attached to infinite source of food, mullahs are not. No fortress is impenetrable once food runs out.
and you can't use GBU-37s on ticks. You can't bury ticks under the mountain they are hiding in.

The problem with this is tunnels aren't as discreet in the modern day.

While satellites are often overhyped for tracking moving targets in real time (i.e ships), one of the things they are good at is change over time.
When you build a tunnel, the rocks and dirt have to go somewhere, and usually need dump trucks, etc. to haul out (which over time leave big, obvious tracks). Over time, specific sites build up nearby debris and you end up with visible tracks disappearing into a mountain.

To collapse such tunnels, even the smaller 2000lb - 5000lb bunker busters can do the job.
This cannot be overstated.
Additionally, thanks to pressure waves and deep tunnels acting to contain them, a comparitively small ammount of explosives will soup the squishy humans inside a tunnel unless they have things like blast doors or ventilation shafts to release/redirect that pressure. Those things leave traces.

what does "top-tier combat units" even mean? the ones smart enough not to put their ducks in animals or their sister?
Elite = They actually aim their AKs before firing.

I know it’s Wikipedia and they carry water for opponents of the us said the corvette the us navy sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka said the sinking is unconfirmed since only the only source is from Hesgeth and they don’t believe him. I’m not bothering to look again because again Wikipedia acts any source from the west is not truthful but the rest of the world is taken at face value.
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
My nigger. They put put video of the whole end of the corvette going up in a big boom. The video had it about to go vertical in the watere. Of course Wikipedo is going to say its "unconfirmed".

What do you think about the claims that the US is running out of ammunition?
brownoid cope.

I think Trump will either wait until Azerbaijan and the kurds open a ground front, or if the Iranians don't yield soon or even despite that, he will do a limited invasion with specops and marines in the iranian islands in the strait to capture them and force it open for good.
You have this backwards. Azeris and Kurds are wanting to go in now and start shit, and the USSD is holding them back because they are not done bombing Iran and don't want to worry about avoiding friendly forces. (Or maybe after Kuwait going full LOL, more accurate to saynot having to dodge FROM friendly forces.) nor do they want to give the Iranian govern a chance to regain control of the people by encouraging them to unite against a "foreign invasion".

The Azeris are so damn effective that it makes you wonder if it really was a Mossad false flag just to sic them on the muzzies
I'm going to bank on Iranian retardation over Mossad jewshines.
Azeribaijan population: 10 million
Iranian Population: 90 million.
Do you see a problem here?

But the really great thing about this is now Iran has to be ready for US forces in the south, and now pissed off Azeri's in the north.

Azerbaijan is loosely aligned with the US, Turkey, and the West. Armenia is loosely aligned with Russia and Iran.
Very much wrong and out of date. Azerbaijan is alligned first and foremost with Turkey, and they are in a situationship with Israel. Armenia is now a US client after Russia let them get wrecked, twice, by Azerbaijan.

Not anymore lol, they're solidly in the US sphere now.
TL;DR Rusgolistan was too busy with 4 year long 2 week special operation to bail their asses out over Nargono-Karabakh, so a few months ago they... gave it up, they're cut-loose, Azeris have a free hand to do what they want but they're still run by the son of the KGBn'wah who took over post Soviet times, so... probably not much.
Yup. Armenia was drifting away the first time Russia hung them out to dry, and now are in full Anglosphere orbit. Another geopolitical win for Putin.

They're hedging their bets, which is what got them in this mess in the first place (2018 revolution). It's retarded to try to and play footsies with two antagonistic great powers at once - the other side will prioritize their long-term partners who have irreconcilable differences with you, and your own historical patron will now no longer trust you. You lose what little leverage you had. To be fair, the people probably didn't have much say in it, seemed like a standard 'revolution'. Pashinyan is hated, being the main reason that Russia began to withdraw from Armenia, resulting in the complete humiliation of the country.
They are taking a life line.

A bit mystified over the idea that Ukraine is the reason Russia didn't help them. The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War ended in 2020 with complete Armenian humiliation. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The breakdown in relations began in 2018 due to the overthrown of the Kremlin-friendly government, and the later conflict was just the killing blow to an already critically weakened country. Now they basically have a puppet government and are the red-headed stepchild of the Caucasus, being the last of the three to align with the West, living under the table and subsisting off of table scraps. Very sad, honestly. Classic Scylla moment - a wise ruler makes use of a traitor but never trusts one.
Does your IQ match room temperature or something? How are things going for you in Pakistan?

Russia intervened in Kazakhstan and their president isn't anymore reliable than Armenia's. The difference was Putin hadn't stuck his dick in the beehive yet.
Or do you think Russia just let their other satellites in Syria and Venezuela collapse because they were tired of having overseas allies?

This isn't what the Armenians wanted to happen, they're the only Transcaucasian state to have stayed in the CSTO afterall, you'd hope and expect big daddy rusgolia to come to the rescue but it just didn't happen for whatever reason, maybe that's because Putin just didn't feel like it, but I feel the actual war taking up all his attention has more than a little to do with it. Same scenario with the collapse in Syria; russian allies get no support, you can cope over how this is totally a masterstroke and how letting your aligned regimes fall like dominoes is a wonderous display of strategy, but the simple fact is rusgolistan is in no fit state to do anything about it, so they just do nothing.
Armenia was having some slapfight with Russia in 2018, so Russia let them get rocked by the Azeris to teach them a lesson. Armenia then acted all tsundere and courted America to make Russia jealous have them rebuild their military.
Then the war in 2024/5 happened and Armenia got BTFO while Russian forces did nothing but watch because Putin was too weak to do anything due to bleeding his forces white in Ukraine.

now Armenia is exiting the gay & worthless CSTO and letting the US build a highway and pipeline thought their territory.


brother we were low 7 MONTHS AGO
You are a retard. How low is low? Please tell me actual numbers.

The Pentagon has military plans on how to invade every single country on Earth. No shit we don't have enough Patriot missiles for "Pentagon's military plans".
Yeah. Retarded TDSers, brownoids, and other low IQ individuals don't get that the Pentagon wants 500 PAC-3s in every US installation so thye don't have to move ammo if there is a REAL happening. Not hititng those numbers is not the same as "almost running out".
but brownoids gonna BROOOOCS.

The US urges not to send back the rescued Iranian sailors and to keep them detained.
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I'm assuming the rescued Iranian sailors are also on board with this plan. "Stay with the jeets, or get bombed by untouchable death from the sky... well they said its just for 4-5 weeks, I'll take the jeets."

Actually a smart move after their retarded play in Syria took them from an ethnic minority in a state that relied on it's ethnic and religious minorities to hold onto power against the sunni arab majority into an ethnic minority in a militant sunni arab state.
They are very likely going to flop on that. that is only one Iraqi kurd org, the others are goign to want money.

>Government signals its demand for missiles is high
>Lockheed say supply is low and can't meet demand
>Lockheed can sell missiles for a high price to a government that has signalled it'll pay out the ass to acquire them
>US gov receives a portion of its own money back in taxes (corporate/income tax) and boosts the economy by increasing the value of Lockheed Martin by pumping them with billions of dollars

Doesn't this follow logically for anyone else? Feels like Nvidia/AMD did this tactic too and CPUs and graphics cards remain static in price despite their bloviating over shortages.
You're going to far. Trump threatened to use the Defense Procurement Act which would allow the government to nationalize their factories and weapon designs. The Government would have to pay for use of both, but the price would be "Whatever the US government feels is fair". The act needs a solid justification to be put into play and "we are needing these mother fuckers because we are being attacked with drones and missiles" would definitely do it.

So the defense contractor establishment would have a vested interest in doing whatever it can to NOT have the act invoked on them.

The missiles aren't the issue, its the drone and they can be launched from a shopping mall parking lot from vehicles that are designed to blend in to society and the eastern border of Iran is almost as large as the American border with Mexico, meaning its porous as fuck and there is no hope of interdiction of weaponry the longer the conflict runs. Iran has tailored its military for this exact scenario because only a retard would have tried competing with the US military
"Ok sure Iran hasn't it any US warships with drones or missiles but Iran is still superpowered and just waiting for the US to be in position before it builds the cauldron. The US armed forces clearly have no counter for drones as we've seen over the past week as Iran is pounded constantly without mercy from the sky with their leaders being killed and their ability to enforce their will on their people being eliminated."
Cope harder.

I surmise that the Trump admin expected Iran to roll over like it did last time the Israeli bombed them and fail to send a bunch of missiles and drones over 3 countries to hit Israel. Its obvious they've been caught flatfooted by the strategy to destroy oil production in the region and close Hormuz, they expected a quick bombing campaign and to be working on Cuba right now, instead they're stuck in the newest forever war with no reasonable solutions to get out of it.
Trump: we are expecting 4-6 weeks of operations.
Retarded Brown BROOOOOCS multipolar: Its been a full week and 3 Iranian government officials are still alive. complete Iranian victory, American hegemony is over, the multipolar world has triumphed. Welcome to the forever war. (ignore Putin stuck in Ukraine for 4 years)

Regime change does not solve anything.
BROOOOCS cope. In this case it very much will, because the current regime is retarded camel fucking death cultists very unpopular with the people for ruining the country and condemning them to die of thirst so their families can live in luxury in Europe.

Post hands, turd worlder.


Holy shit, @Null mentioned my posting on MATI! (1:05:20) I'm literally speechless.
That's good for you and all, but where's MY parade?

The sailors on the USS Ford can finally be... relieved.
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Toilets can't be clogged. The ship has a side, so there is ALWAYS a working bathroom.

They needed to check his pockets for change
Israel personal records listed him as having two gold teeth, and elite Israeli commandos have been dispatched to repatriate them at all costs.

Do civilized nations execute their own men if it looks like they might be captured?
I mean if they are about to be raped by dune coons yes.
I'd rather my own command drops a 155 on my position and hopefully vaporizes some dune coons rather than have them capture me, torture me, and then slowly behead me.

Every leader on the planet wants this to end yesterday because they know the global financial system will collapse in a few weeks if it doesn't.
No it won't. You faggots said the same thing when Russia cucked to china and offered to price all trade with them in Yuan 3 yeas ago. There will be distruptions that will take time to unspool, but your retareded "global financial collapse" cope won't happen. Your KGB handlers are really low IQ.

https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/delta-force-top-secret-mission-to-rescue-vietnam-era-pows
Not even reagan authorized follow-ups to this when it leaked, despite credible intel suggesting at least some pows from vietnam were still alive in the 80s.
Going after a body of a man dead for 40 years in the middle of a existential war is a gross misallocation of valuable resources.
It's even worse than saving private ryan, at least ryan was alive and well at the end to justify the dead platoon of rangers he costed.
This is false.
tl;dr: North Vietnam ran camps out in the jungle for SOUTH VIETNAMESE POWs and also for weird commie reason maybe related to drug smuggling. The logistics of keeping even a couple hundred men in captivity would be visible from space. Mass graves would be visible in foliage variations for years.

This is repeated because there was one OG Special forces guy who got a bugaboo about it. But his source was was outted as a liar; basically the guy was being sent home for discharge but opted to stay in country instead, went to the North trying to set himself up as a businessman, failed repeatedly and was utterly broke and practically living on the streets. He was begging from westerns and spun a tail about being an escaped POW, then continued the grift.
The other source was an unnammed North Vietnamese general who at a diplomatic function related to warming US/Vietname ties said soemthing to the effect of "I think this means you will be able to come get your soldiers now".
I will believe the SF guy is not lying, but what I have had explained to me is that he was likely told something along the lines of "Now this means you will be able to search the jungle for any remaining dead soldiers", and due to poor english, party noise, and the SF guy's brain twisting the memory into what he wanted to hear, he got out of it "there are still living POWs"

The "left behind" rumor started because of how fucked US command in vietnam was, the utter lack of trust between enlisted and officers ,especially because many of the soldiers were draftees not volunteers. The rumor is because there were still camps for Political Prisoners and South Vietnamese POWs and Chinese POWs from the Sino-vietnamese war into the 80s. To this, plus you had some willing defectors still around in vietnam. There was a thorough investigation in the 80s as they went to search for additional MIAs. They were given access to remote parts of North vietname to look for aircrews, and they would have seen or heard something if there was a group of a thousand white dudes in the jungle.

To quote one of the guys who did the search:
"If there are any POWs still in vietnam, its because they want to be there"

The POW mythology ignores some unpleasant realities. The last Vietnam POW returned was Robert Garwood who was returned in 1979. It turned out that he was a collaborator who the NVA kept around to fix jeeps and the Marine Corps ended up court-martialing him.
Yup. IIRC he was also telling stories to try make money after his court-martial.

the US wasnt at war with vietnam in the 1980s, israel is at war with lebanon rn. pows and dead bodies arent the same thing either. you wont find too many soldiers who think retrieving the bodies of comrades isn't worth it, even comrades who died decades ago. it's that kind of thing that keeps westoid soldiers' esprit de corps up
What are "Things the bugpeople of BROOOOCS will never understand because they have no honor, nor respect for life, and lack the IQ to have object permanence so if they can't see it it doesn't exist", Alex.
Potent Potables for 800.

Also why is Israel a good ally? Well because they don't do shit like this:
Our Stalwart European Allies.
Can we regime change the UK next?


Also, most of the drones Russia has used in the war come from Iran. They can’t exactly get more of them to use in Ukraine if what’s left of Iran’s military is using the drones. If anything, this situation is making things worse for Russia, as outside of human waves, they rely on drone strikes.
Point of order: no one is sure how much Iranian production russia relies on.
There was a study in mid-2024 that estimated 60% of Russian drones used Iranian components. This included drones made wholly in Iran, Drone that were build in Iran but used Russian engines, Drones that used Iranian parts but assembled in Russia, drones that used things like fuselages or wing assemblies made in Iran, and ones that use Iranian componentnts. I didn't see a break down, just they estimated 60% of their drones had some level of Iranian contribution.

But that's almost two years old, and no one knows how long Russia had the Iranian drones/parts. Russia has its own licenses Shaheed factories so has a not-insignificant domestic production.

But your conclusion is correct: losing Iran as a source of drones and parts will hurt Russia. It might take some time for existing stocks to deplete, and no one is sure how much Russia was helped by Iranian drone industry, but it will hurt Russia.

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Washington Post claims that Russian Federation is aiding the Islamic Republic of Iran with Intelligence on US Forces in the region. Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
1) US has done the same in Russias 3-Day SMO
2) it's only an "act of war" if the other guy is willing to go to war over it

There is going to be fallout from this for Russia.
Also what Russia is doing is different than what the US was going, it seems like. The US was playing Pro-level FuckFuck games. They gave Ukraine a list of target coordinates and said "We think you might want to hit these coordinates", then left everythign to the Yooks.

Russia it seems was providing more than just coordinate but also intel about what exactly they were hitting and the defenses around it. That's a step up, and might just see the US go tit-for-tat plus some new weapons.

Though the more I think about it, it'd be absolutely hilarious if Russia was going the blind "list of coordinates" and includes a bunch of random shit in neutral countries the Iranisn just launched missiles and drones on with zero awareness of what they were trying to hit.
Russia making sure Iran collapses. I want to believe.


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.
I am not sure you've got the right mind set for the military if you are scared of war.

It was the most fun I never want to have again.
My descriptor is "I have never had so much fun being miserable".

If you do decide to join, go with the army. When you enlist with the army, you get your choice of MOS (job title) locked in with your contract before you head off to training.. As long as everything goes smooth with your training, i.e. you don't fail and have to recycle, your contract will stay intact and you will enter service with your selected job. That way you can pick some POG title and be a safe little fobbit (although the results of this conflict so far shows that being a fobbit might not actually be all that safe lol).
Airforce also lets you select MOS (I think they use a different term) and their deployments are cakewalks you are overpaid for. Chairforce fags sometimes have to stay in Army barracks and get "hardship pay" because they aren't up to Chairforce coushy standards.

The downsides to going Chairforce as a non-pilot are 3 fold:
First, you are ground units in an aviation service. You are a second class citizen. You will have less than no rights. Everyone has to deal with retarded officers, but yours will feel undeserved superiority and have command backing them.

Second, Airforce has virtually zero problems with recruiting goals for jobs people want. They always want cargo pilots, and they always want retards to move cargo, and sometimes want mechanics, but things like tech jobs and other cushy gigs that don't result in life-long hearing damage can be hard to land. They may not have the job you want available. Which isn't a huge issue if you can walk away and try again later, but if you have your life set to ship out that day....

Third, you will have to deal with unending bullshit. Some units are chill, but not many. Since you are effectively always in garrison, you are usually held to very high uniform/grooming standards and unending bullshit paperwork, even more than the other branches, even when deployed.

Honestly if I was enlisting today, I would go Air National Guard first, the coast guard, then Airforce, then Army National Guard, then navy, then active duty army (hooah).
 
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Surely some MIT kid could hook a robotic arm to an M61 or GAU-19 or even just a typical minigun and a radar dish, and voila, instant solve to most of these smaller drone issues and probably cruise missiles too.
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It also costs $3,000+ per second to fire a M61, doesn't fix the asymmetry problem.
the cost of a single patriot round (even using the absolute cheapest estimate) that might bring down one singular drone. Would let you fire that continuously for 16:40
Point of order. The LUCAS isn't a shaheed clone. It is a clone of German drone, and that german drone is what the Iranians stole to make the Shaheed.
Calling them clones at all is largely a misnomer as even the Shahed is not truly a clone of it's german contemporary with components from multiple different models combined to put it together, the engine used and the body used were "taken" from two different german drone models and other components of the shahed then worked out using different components that they had access to.

But at the end of the day, the Shahed is what the LUCAS is based upon, and the Military openly states as much, we did, much like Iran had done, took their design, retooled it with our own touches, and gave it a new name for "our model" but our model was designed from a shahed, and not the older German, or the older Israeli equivilents.

There's a bunch of older posts and articles talking about it's development but here even just a day and a half ago during the centcom briefing it was stated that the LUCAS was re-engineered Iranian tech.
 
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You're just describing a Phalax CIWS

It also costs $3,000+ per second to fire a M61, doesn't fix the asymmetry problem.
tl;dr
for Drones you can run he Phallanx in very short bursts.


"Iran is showing definance, we are giving them exactly what they asked for"
Fucking lol. 100% Kino. This is what I voted for.

This doesn't sound like the 'famous Iranian hospitality to me', more like "Trust me bro we're being real nice right now -- no we're not running out of munitions and using this as a cope, no, totally not. We're being good people here! We don't WANT to bomb you; we still can, we totally can! See? We just hit the UAE with a drone again! Just trust us and leave us alone, we're still a threat k thnx". It's pure cope, but I can't wait to hear the third-worldist in a discord server I occupied (guy that left America for Canada, hates Israel, hates America, will back any country that fights America) thinks of this. Nothing good, for sure.
AHAHAHAHHAHHA
Never trust a Muslim.

I can see it either way because this new guy might have realized bombing all of their neighbors is retarded and now that he has control over the drones and missiles he told the grunts to stop pissing off everyone arround them by being a headless chicken, and I can see them being low on ability to deliver their weapons stockpile to targets.
No, it usual Muslim lies. They will continue to hit neighbors and then claim they were allowing Mossad to use them as a base.
 
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