There are over 1000 battle-hardened and dedicated members of Iran's most elite units defending Kharg Island
President Trump released footage of the U.S. strikes on Iran's Kharg Island, which he claims is "one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East."
....There are over 500 battle-hardened and dedicated members of Iran's most elite units defending Kharg Island
The island is small enough that hypothetically it could be held. I mean you'd have to station some sort of naval detachment in order to provide sufficient anti-air defense, but it's just a strategic chokehold that could be taken. It is quite tiny. It would be much harder if the United States bombed it, which we could do but it would set rebuilding back decades.
I am not an officer but I think you could probably take the island with a battalion of Marines. Airstrikes would take out defenders and any shore-based support. You probably would only need a company to retain possession. The problem as I stated before is that those forces would be under constant artillery and done attack.
if you tried to put vessels where they could defend the island, that is between it and the shore, it would be in range of Iranina rocket artillery and shore-based anti-ship missiles, as well as risk of Iranian speed boat swarms.
nothing short of an Iowa would be able to clear - and more importantly keep clear - the shore of any threats.
You could run airstrikes but you can't have a squadron loitering 24/7.
Here are the places on Kharg Island that the killcams show:
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Interesting that it was decided for the runway to be destroyed.
It didn't look to me like they were destroying the runway it looked like they were ACKing some launchers or structures in the "median". But it wouldn't suprise me if they did. The US can use helos or landing craft, we have whole units that specialize in repairing tarmac, and destroying the runway means Iran can't reinforce/resupply via the air.

Uptick in drones today
More drones launched. Its over American Imperialists. Total Iranian victory, Trump and Bibi on suicide watch.
I-24 news is reporting that Israel is planning to invade Lebanon with more troops than it did in 2006. The plan is to completely dismantle Hezbollah south of the latani. From what I can gather the goal here both in the United States and in Israel is to just rip the Band-Aid off and never have to deal with these fucking people again. Trump is finally allowing and agreeing with bibi that fuck the European rules-based order. It's American rules-based order that runs the world and fuck you. So the Europeans can sit in their monitoring cuck chair, and scream and yell but the people that actually matter for the next 50 to 100 years minimum, Will once again take control of the situation. To quote Joe Biden " there is no moral center in Europe without the United States"
Wait but if Trump doesn't respect Eurofag whinging they will pull back all the forces they deployed to support us! Oh wait....
Ok ok but if Trump tells Europe to go fuck themselves, they might try to stop the US by deploying their army and navy to block US attacks....Oh right.
Huh. It looks like Europe has no ability to actually enforce its will and they can be easily disregarded. Funny how that works when your armed forces are a hollowed out joke.
Who the fuck told you this would be a 3 day operation? Do you have some sort of reason to think this isn't going well?
The reason is he's a BROOOOCS brown coping and seething.
No idea why people are doubting you, we’ve been relaying them messages to stay indoors since the beginning.
See above. Brownoid coping knows no logic, only what their KGB handlers have programmed into them
What's the end game for Iran if Trump captures or destroy 90% of their oil exports? They can't just buy another oil export industry from china with just sand and carpets.
They sort of can. Take out some belt and road loans, China would be very interested in getting them back up and pumping. But wouldn't be possible during this current Happening, but if the regime survives even if Kharg is leveled they'll be back in a couple months because china will do whatever it takes to get that shit flowing again.
For the 8th time this thread, Netanyahu has died! Inshallah, he is on his 9th life now and like the cat, surely now it is his last!
The Muslims are too dumb to realize he's a lich he's going to keep coming back until they destroy his phylactery.
I have the sense the entire attack from the start was intended to be a short couple days long operation centered around targetting as many figures and strategic assets of the regime as possible under the belief all the protests would spiral into people toppling the regime. Trump saying he'd prefer someone inside the country over that nepobaby cuck all the diaspora twerkers guzzle cum for supports that theory at least for me. A couple more weeks of bombings aren't going to change anything if they haven't toppled the regime internally at all.
My hunch is the people that actively want to see the regime toppled are too weak or too lazy to organize and do it themselves and are banking on some sort of ground invasion like in Iraq and Afghanistan before they make a move, which is fucking retarded since Iran is a extremely mountainous country of 100million people. Which all comes to mean that anti-regime organizations will do jack shit, the regime will consolidate around whoever survives and becomes Ayatollah of the Ashes, and we will all get fucking no where with a more consolidated regime which gets to use the operation as propaganda for why the average Iranian needs to support the regime. Crusader LARPers will jack off over war edits, the DoD will talk about how Iran needs to negotiate still, and the Straits of Hormuz will probably stay closed similar to when the Suez was shut down for like a decade.
I have the sense you are a retard. My hunch is that you are a massive faggot.
It’s because he’s a fag, a cuck and a pedophile.
That is a mirror you're looking at there, ace.
The amount of die hard MAGA fanatics still on this site will never cease to amaze me, Captive Dreamer levels He sold you out to kikes, every apparatus of his government tells you it was only for kike interests, and you still roll along with it. And the vaunted US fleet is doing a great job escorting craft though the straights. Unpleasant as it is maybe America will learn a lesson when a carrier with 6,000 souls is sent to the bottom
Biden got more Americans killed by fucking up Afghanistan withdraw to 'pwn trump'. Cope and seethe harder.
Also for a proud American patriot you really lust for the death of American soldiers and sailors.
Most them hands, Muhammed.