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So their main strategy is literally terrorism via attacking ships on the Strait and driving up oil prices? Yeah, US may not put boots on the ground. Other Arabs might go rape them to death for this if they can’t export shit.
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Interesting. You can see the IR laser designator flicker from the drone targeting the plane. The angle of the US munition looks like its directly above. This could be an exampled of US networked weapons. The drone confirms the target and either relays the info to the bomber or the mutation itself. In this way, the drone is a disposable set of eyes allowing USAF bombers the ability to stay high.

Either that or its all the drone doing the targeting and bombing, but those munitions look more like big JDAMs to me.
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Network-centric warfare means one asset does the targeting and the other dispatches the missile to fuck shit up. It’s not one airplane targets and shoots. It’s one airplane targets and any asset in the area can shoot.

It’s one of the cornerstones of managing the modern battlespace. It’s the unification of sensor and data processing platforms to link everything together.
 
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pooterino said:
Reads a new post from Mr. Racewar.... what the fuck is a "basij"? Googles it...

Oh. Oh man that does sound bad. "The Basij has been frequently implicated in human rights violations, including torture, rape and sexual violence, as well as enforcing aspects of sharia law on citizens such as the mandatory wearing of the hijab."



only Putin knows
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I posted this video when it came out a couple of days ago but the thread has moved like 100 pages since then so it might be useful again. It's funny and also informative:
 
pooterino said:
Reads a new post from Mr. Racewar.... what the fuck is a "basij"? Googles it...

Oh. Oh man that does sound bad. "The Basij has been frequently implicated in human rights violations, including torture, rape and sexual violence, as well as enforcing aspects of sharia law on citizens such as the mandatory wearing of the hijab."
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The Basijis were the ones doing most of the killing during the demonstrations back in January. Fuck the Basij, all my homies hate the Basij.

There's some heavy bombing going on all over Tehran so we'll have some footage tomorrow morning. I'll leave you with a meme I was saving for when I thought the initial strikes were going to happen:
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ToEnsureVerification said:
l;dw The Navy saw they needed a ship that was small, cheap and be able to be mass produced, with tasks of mine clearing and ASW in littoral spaces, to precicely avoid overtasking the main surface combatants. But the shipyards, instead of sticking with the main goals of what the mission neeeded, wanted to create a space-age boat, with immature and unreliable technology due to requirement creep. Costs ballooned to an eye-watering level, everyone gave up was like "eh, we'll just keep using big Burkes".
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yeah that actually makes sense then because I'm seeing that they are just using them now to focus on mine clearing
should have just focused on making them for that instead of trying to do the modular 'it can do anything' thing
 
Seething Troon Collector said:
Network-centric warfare means one asset does the targeting and the other dispatches the missile to fuck shit up. It’s not one airplane targets and shoots. It’s one airplane targets and any asset in the area can shoot.
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Teknikully the US has been doing this for a long time, with manned planes being able to target and another plane's missile/bomb picking up the signal, and with guys on the ground painting targets with laser beems, but having drones providing real-time guidance to bombs and missiles at scale is relatively new
 
bookers said:
yeah that actually makes sense then because I'm seeing that they are just using them now to focus on mine clearing
should have just focused on making them for that instead of trying to do the stupid modular 'it can do anything' thing
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TBH it would be also wasteful to make dedicated mine clearers. How often are naval mine clearing operations required these days? There's other ships that can also do it but they finally gave the LCS a job, at least.
 
A friend sent me the picture of the cardboard cutout Ayatollah Khamenei II and I thought it was a joke.

Now I learn it was real.

This is beyond parody at this point. Totally farcical.

His absence before didn't make me think he was dead. After all if you elect a corpse as Supreme Leader you might as well keep the old corpse. Kim Il-sung is still President of North Korea after all. But now i'm not so sure.

Iran is a weird place. Hopefully they give up soon this is just retarded.

Edit; This post will remain for posterity, but turns out my initial thought was right and it is fake. I am dumb yet it was so easy to believe.
 
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Myrtle the Turtle said:
Interesting. You can see the IR laser designator flicker from the drone targeting the plane. The angle of the US munition looks like its directly above. This could be an exampled of US networked weapons. The drone confirms the target and either relays the info to the bomber or the mutation itself. In this way, the drone is a disposable set of eyes allowing USAF bombers the ability to stay high.

Either that or its all the drone doing the targeting and bombing, but those munitions look more like big JDAMs to me.
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We've been doing buddy lasing for decades now on most platforms capable of carrying laser targeting pods. You don't even need to have a fully networked weapon if both weapon and targeting laser are tuned to the same code. Not in these vids obviously, but special forces have lased from the ground wholly disconnected from the strike aircraft.

 
Mr.Bucket said:
TBH it would be also wasteful to make dedicated mine clearers. How often are naval mine clearing operations required these days? There's other ships that can also do it but they finally gave the LCS a job, at least.
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Iran lucked out insanely hard by happening to be positioned not only on a massive well of high-quality oil, but also right next to a strait that squeezes worldwide shipping.
If they were landlocked or not sitting on a mass of black gold, they wouldn't have a prayer.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Iran lucked out insanely hard by happening to be positioned not only on a massive well of high-quality oil, but also right next to a strait that squeezes worldwide shipping.
If they were landlocked or not sitting on a mass of black gold, they wouldn't have a prayer.
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After some google-fu I found out these were the last dedicated anti-mine US navy ships:

They were fiberglass over wood hulls. There's apparently 4 still active and their home port is in Japan.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Iran lucked out insanely hard by happening to be positioned not only on a massive well of high-quality oil, but also right next to a strait that squeezes worldwide shipping.
If they were landlocked or not sitting on a mass of black gold, they wouldn't have a prayer.
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Why do you think they have lasted so long despite being the most actively hostile foreign nation to the US since the end of the cold war?
 
RodgerDodger said:
As if China’s week could get any worse?
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Hot DAMN this war is turning out to be one hell of a technology demonstrator...
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Did you know that the B-21 Raider has the capability of firing off NUCLEAR-tipped cruise missiles? Yeah. Now picture this China: A B-21 raider with one of those versus the Three Gorges Dam. From the wiki - "In November 2025, a B-52 bomber was spotted carrying what appeared to be two test-modified AGM-181 missiles, bearing many similarities to the only publicly released rendering of the weapon."
 
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Mr.Bucket said:
After some google-fu I found out these were the last dedicated anti-mine US navy ships:

They were fiberglass over wood hulls. There's apparently 4 still active and their home port is in Japan.
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Back in the Cold War it was largely the responsibility of NATO allies to do minesweeping. It's part of why the Royal Navy had (has?) so many mine warfare ships relative to the rest of the fleet.

Nowadays the NATO fleets rot in port due defense cuts with no crews and ships stripped of equipment so it's a responsibility the US must again shoulder. All of America's rivals and adversaries (China, Russia, Iran clearly) plan to conduct extensive minelaying operations in any future conflict so it's kind of important.
 
Fred Herbert said:
Back in the Cold War it was largely the responsibility of NATO allies to do minesweeping. It's part of why the Royal Navy had (has?) so many mine warfare ships relative to the rest of the fleet.

Nowadays the NATO fleets rot in port due defense cuts with no crews and ships stripped of equipment so it's a responsibility the US must again shoulder. All of America's rivals and adversaries (China, Russia, Iran clearly) plan to conduct extensive minelaying operations in any future conflict so it's kind of important.
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It doesn't help things that they retired 4 Avengers just last September.
 
BigJoey41X said:
you have to understand that religious fundamentalists are fucking crazy, they have zero fear of dying for the jihad or some shit, and are willing to hide in fuckall nowhere in squalid conditions for decades, which is why we could never properly beat the taliban.
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It's a very complicated web of reasons why the Taliban could never be fully eradicated in Afghanistan. Should be noted that the US never classified the Taliban as a terrorist organization due to desiring diplomatic flexibility with them, but the biggest crux came for mission creep to nation build with the assumption that eliminating the country acting as incubator for terrorist organizations staging ground would thwart future 9/11's as well as the inability to operate within Pakistan. Before the invasion, we wanted the Taliban to hand over top members of Al Qaeda, especially Bin Laden, they declined to do so (Al-Qaeda exerted great influence on the Taliban in the late 90s), so we went in, dismantled their hold incredibly fast over Kabul and the surrounding provinces, but couldn't find the senior leadership of Al Qaeda, so figured to nation build a land locked mountainous country - an artificial state traced back to The Great Game in the 19th century - that was wedged between a very dubious Pakistani "ally" to the East and a bitter Iranian enemy to the West. Both of which undermined us to death as the Taliban kept border crossing throughout Pakistan while Iran went from almost going to war with the Taliban in 1998 to switching to a double-track policy of being friendly to the new government while also secretly funding/training elements to act as a headache to NATO forces
Pakistan in particular was trusted too much which played a significant role in us staying in Afghanistan for so long. They held leverage over us since we had to use their airspace to get into Afghanistan, which in return we couldn't apply the needed pressure on them to maintain and dislodge the Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camps within their borders. It's still up for debate whether or not if the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI) was extremely incompetent or had senior members that knew the location of Bin Laden yet refused to lend this info at an earlier time. Never forget, Pakistan financially supported the Taliban before 9/11 because of "strategic depth" against India which mind you is still a very relevant reason why Pakistan is at war with the Taliban now as India is becoming a pragmatic diplomatic partner to Afghanistan which Pakistan has accused of the country being colony of India . And the 2nd in command of Al-Qaeda (al-Zawahiri) only was killed recently in 2022 after we left because he assumed it was ok to return from hiding in Pakistan just to be droned in Kabul.
And never forget that Bill Clinton had passed up multiple opportunities to kill Bin Laden during his administration. In 98, they knew exactly where he was in a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, but there was a risk that 200-300 causalities would take place, so Clinton declined doing so under the notion of being "no better than him"
 
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