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It's also literally *the* difficult part of making a nuke. The rest is largely simple (for a country with advanced manufacturing capabilities like Iran) and extremely easy to hide. The massive array of centrifuges is the tricky bit. It's amazing to hear people argue that "Iran shouldn't have nukes, but we can at least let them get close." There's not a single use for Uranium enriched to 50% aside from weaponry. It can be perfectly logical for Iran to want nukes for deterrence. It's more likely they would use it to wipe out Israel, but who cares? Just because it's logical doesn't mean we should allow it.

They probably didn’t know they were being shot at unless they would’ve seen muzzle flash or impact from a round.

Really surprised they didn't eat some mini-gun in return.

I'm not sure using "We've got enough nuclear material for 11 bombs" was a good negotiating point from the Iranian side of the table. Didn't seem to get the result I think they thought it would.

I remember that as bipartisan second guessing which got us to the Patriot Act. But maybe my memory is bad

LinkedIn#csar #airoperations #csar | Tim De Zitter𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀: 𝗨𝗛-𝟲𝟬 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗦𝗔𝗥 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 According to reporting by Newsmax journalist Carla Babb, a U.S. HH-60G Pav

Don't kid yourself, plenty of fighter guys have been with BQZip's mom...

I stand corrected

Makes sense. Saw a video of the hawks refueling off a herc.

Range?

You should let the DOW know of this tactic. These guys should really have some escorts with them.....

Iran said come closer and we are getting rocked. Lost 3 aircraft in 5 hours.

Why are they not using Apache escorts.

“But what about the nukes? If Iran wanted to they've shown they have the capability to launch a dirty bomb and make Israel uninhabitable. They haven't. If Iran wanted to they could develop a nuke (1940s tech), they haven't” AMAZING, defending the Iranian regime and giving them the benefit of doubt…But if Iran nuked somebody, it would be exactly like all the libs after 9/11, All they did was second guess why we didn’t do anything before about Al Qiada.

A-10 crashed as well, pilot rescued.

Herk driver. We're a bit too round and blunt to be the tip of the spear but I've gone into plenty of sketchy spots fighter guys won't ever go. In my personal opinion i's fine to joke after the fact but while the crew, now just the wso is mia I'm not going to joke about it. Iran has saber rattled occasionally every few months but never actually threatened global stability. Not even regional. They around with Israel through non state actors. Not our problem. But we poked our noses in and now it's become a regional issue and a global economic issue with no strategic goals.

Haven't seen proof of that on fox's articles. Not to mention we still have someone MIA so those "reasons" should still apply. Y'all love to blame TDS. Believe it or not many of us disapprove of these actions for multiple reasons not just because Trump's admin pulled the trigger. We take sides based on policy and beliefs not based on what our leadership tell us to parrot. Had this been a democratic pres, Israel alone, etc. I still would be disapproving for all the reasons I've stated. I'm tired of being in the middle East. I'm tired of spending my tax dollars on excessive amounts of ordinance rather than projects at home. I'm tired of seeing generation after generation sent off to do dumb shit. And we don't have a lame "let's go Brandon" chant among other derangements if you want to get started down the TDS path. But what about the nukes? If Iran wanted to they've shown they have the capability to launch a dirty bomb and make Israel uninhabitable. They haven't. If Iran wanted to they could develop a nuke (1940s tech), they haven't. They've continually come to the negotiating table and used the "what if" as a card. Then abide by the treaties to keep their program in check. Treaties that Trump removed us from for no reason.

Just popping in for the friendly weekly reminder that at no point leading up to this stupid boondoggle did our own intel community assess Iran was developing a nuke. 2025 DNI report saying as much is linked a few pages back. But please don’t let inconvenient facts like that interfere with fear mongering about it. There’s some pretty bad faith comments in here to the point that it’s honestly gotten tiresome. This might sound strange to some of you but it’s perfectly possible to disagree with the policy and strategy underpinning a war without being a “scaredy cat” or “against the troops” or “rooting for failure.”

Right on! 🤙🏻 First go at applying this year, wishing everyone best of luck

They just can't help themselves...funny and sad at the same time...must be a joy to live with.

Some of the guys on this site are getting hysterical…..I remember when we attacked Gaddafi and the usual weak sisters were decrying how Libya would obliterate us and start WW III. Fox News just announced that they weren’t reporting on the rescue efforts/results for security reasons, Not MAGA reasons like some of the TDS afflicted posters stated.

Couldn't the same have been said for OIF? I'm sure there were plenty of parents who were former military that had kids of their own fighting in Iraq over "WMD". I'm sure it's sentiment that will continue to be repeated. Not being dismissive of your point, it has some validity, I don't think this has been handled well politically...but that's just like my opinion man. But I do agree that I hope we use everything we can to smoke 'em win decisively (whatever that means), and get everybody home.

Take a breath, kid. Suggesting that a fighter pilot wouldn't find a way to make a joke out of anything is a dead giveaway that you aren't anywhere close to the pointy end of the spear. What exactly do you think these lunatics were going to do with a nuke? They've done everything they can slaughter their great foes, Israel and America. Despite bringing on immeasurable pain and suffering to their people and themselves each time, nothing stops them from their great jihad. This is fundamentally a domestic problem. We've had it so good for so long that it seems a whole lot of Americans, even ones in the military, forgot how world peace is secured. I suspect it's gotten bad enough that there will be no off ramps to the great war, but at least someone is willing to move pieces around on the board to give us a better shot at winning. It's mind-blowing to me that "someone" is a borderline delusional reality TV star, but here we are.

Yes, this conflict has been a tactical success so far. The Joint Force has shown that rhetoric matches reality. However, tactical success must convey strategic meaning, as Colin Gray would write. I'm not sure we can have strategic success if the objectives keep changing and the Administration cannot convey the necessity of this conflict to the body politic.