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A buddy of mine was outside the wire around Balad when a C-RAM went off. He described the rain of metal from the self destruct rounds. He wasn't happy. Hurt someone, probably. Kill someone, maybe a chance, and while small, is still a chance. But we probably need to start putting in anti drone systems at all bases, even CONUS.
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I should have specified: OCONUS base used for contingency operations inside the WEZ of a Shahed.
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Obviously I don’t know and couldn’t post it here if I did. But leading up to the ceasefire it seemed like hits on our stuff were increasing — AWACS, PSAB tankers, THAAD radar array etc.. all open source. And this was after a month of attriting their launchers. Also open source reporting from the Israel and US side that interceptor numbers were getting “critically low.” I’m not saying the patriot/thaad/sm-3 aren’t super rad systems. I just don’t think we were winning the volume game or ‘exchange ratio’ @ClearedHot alluded to and that was one of the reasons the desire for a ceasefire seemed urgent on our side
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I will say it’s a solid rhetorical pivot from you guys though.. Can’t argue the war on its own merits? Just invoke “secret” info that no one can confirm or refute in an open forum to prove the whole thing is justified and a super good idea. I guess that’s checkmate because I honestly can’t do much with that
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Phalanx CIWS C-RAM in action at night compilation Don't the rounds self-destruct after a certain range now for this very reason?
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Like I said the Fox News boomer energy is absolutely seeping out of this place. I’m sure all you guys use your 30 y.o. clearances to pour over the DNI report every day.. meanwhile the only one we can actually post here (the unclassified one) contradicts the entire premise for this war. So I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree and you guys can all have an I told you so circle jerk in a vault over what the “real information” is. Maybe the real report is what Netanyahu’s got access to because according to him the threat has been imminent for 30+ years
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Idiots.... "Two targeting pods?" "The airplane has a 200NM combat radius?" "This airplane is design for low-altitude fight" Change name to Doorknob and Donkey.
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You are getting close...the real equation is how many interceptors do you have to build to achieve you desired PK. In the industry the problem is being called the exchange ratio. With the Houthis we were shooting multi-million dollar SM2s, with the TBMs we are shooting multi-million dollar Patriots, when Iran tried the attack last year the F-15's were chucking multi-million dollar AMRAAMs and AIM-9Xs. USAF in particular has invested a LOT and made industry go fast as realized by the AGR-20 Falco which flips the equation back to our favor, interceptors now cost 1/3 that of the threat. Ummm NO! Are you out of your mind? Use Nellis, Eglin, Andrews, Joint Base San Antonio as examples, what do you say to the locals when you start spraying 4100 rounds of 20MM into neighborhoods around the base in the name of self-defense? CRAM is great at FOBs but CONUS bases need a different and layered solution.
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Mover and Gonky discuss Red Wolf on OA-1 Posted as the skeptical views they share on the utility of it add (I think) to the broader point that I don’t believe the AF likes or believes in distributing fires capabilities to non traditional (not fighter/attack or bomber platforms) This must be overcome IMHO at high level Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I think putting a CRAM at every base, not just FOBs, is a no brainer now.
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@brabus @M2 you guys sound like such tools attempting to security clearance flex on people in an Internet forum.. But to answer your stupid misread, no I’m complaining that their pitch for the war directly contradicts their own administration’s DNI Annual Threat Assessment linked below now for the second time in this thread. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf “WMD We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.” So no, my source isn’t some amateur defense blogger. Just the Director of National Intelligence. Now maybe your point is the secret version of the DNI report says the total opposite of the unclassified version. Fair. It’s a possibility and I haven’t read it. Although in my experience classified doesn’t usually contradict unclass stuff, it just adds more detail/sources/methods/numbers. I’ll go in the vault Monday and track it down. I’m also confident you haven’t read it either and are completely talking out of your ass. Because no tactical pilot spends their time in the vault reading DNI reports. We read tactical level documents like the 3-1 and the threat guide. Also with a baseops accounts dating back to 2005 and 2003 respectively there’s a very low likelihood either of you are even still in the military or have a clearance at this point which makes it even weirder you’d attempt to pull the ‘I know more secret stuff than you’ in a public forum. As if the boomer memes didn’t already give off clear enough retired energyWhat percentage of their munitions against fixed targets actually hit vs how many were intercepted? What would the conflict look like without those intercepts?
