Sounds of explosions heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran
Sounds of explosions heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran
www.aljazeera.com
Israel carries out strikes targeting Iranian nuclear, military sites
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I guess the US evacuating it's Iraq embassy indicates that they knew something. Despite Trumps dementia, perhaps someone in his cabinet knew.
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It feels weird that Iran, a rather large country, is incapable of defending its airspace against aistrikes from Israel, which doesn't even border Iran.
Coming from the India-Pakistan BVR dogfight where we saw hundreds of fighters, drones, s2a missile batteries, complete AWACS and EW platforms, and some IAF planes shot down at ranges exceeding 150km, it's jarring seeing just how non functional Iran’s airforce and air defense is against a modern threat.
I don't think they're even capable of properly replicating the AIM-54, which is now an outdated LRAAM platform.
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That might be true, but look at how hyped Israel's Iron Dome has been as being so "amazing." And yet Yemen continues to make it through time and time again. Not to mention Hezbollah's many successful incursions with their recon drones and missiles hitting many of their targets. Hell, even the USA took some bad hits when dealing with resistance fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq. All the expensive tech is so focused on dealing with opponents that are also using it. Or at least pitched as important because of "the future of war that will be fought" and just seems to make mad profits for private corps and capitalists.
Are the systems impressive in fucked up scary ways? Yes, but it gives false senses of "safety" and allows for underestimating nations and fighters that are seen as "backwards" from a tech standpoint. That underestimating and hubris has caused many nations throughout history to lose. Of course it doesn't negate that it is kind of shocking that Iran hasn't found creative ways to better deal with these attacks. Though it does give them every green light to hit back as hard as they want/can.
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Is it possible that we heard this last night, in the west of Germany? Something for sure was going on
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Are you asking wether you heard an explosion from Tehran, all the way in western Germany?
'cause if so, no. You wouldn' t hear a nuke that far away
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Fucking Israel...
The US is almost certainly playing a major supporting role.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-us-helped-lull-iran-into-belief-no-attack-imminent/
In terms of $17billion in funding over the past 4years, sure. In terms of intelligence sharing? Maybe. In terms of tactical/strategic support?
I'm doubtful The Whitehouse even knew about until afterwardse: recalling the embassy evacuation's the US did earlier, I take that back.