10 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

Dibs on those cans.  Add one gag ball and a dude named Biff.  

1 hour ago, Biff_T said:

Dibs on those cans.  Add one gag ball and a dude named Biff.  

Find the video and watch those cans move around.

On 9/20/2024 at 11:03 PM, arg said:

Find the video and watch those cans move around.

How dare you people?!  She is a respectable elected official and a nice lady… like Adam Kinzinger.

  Not confirmed yet but a good day if Israel actually turned Nasarallah into fertilizer.

  Israel just blasted the Houthis this morning; they are not fucking around.

1 hour ago, DirkDiggler said:

  Israel just blasted the Houthis this morning; they are not ing around.

Isn't it amazing what can be accomplished when everyone isn't so worried about not offending people, and risk aversion instead caring more about killing bad guys and breaking their shit? What if...

19 hours ago, Inertia17 said:

Isn't it amazing what can be accomplished when everyone isn't so worried about not offending people, and risk aversion instead caring more about killing bad guys and breaking their shit? What if...

Remember Effects Based Targeting from ACSC? You know IMHO I've always thought a strike on the Iranian oil terminal facilities in the Persian Gulf or pipeline nodes in the desert would be the way to go. Enough to send a message they get 5X5 but without completely at this point destroying the infrastructure. Shut off their ability to export oil and the cash flow dries up. No more whack a mole trying to catch tankers circumventing an embargo.  They'll be "squealin from the feelin" soon enough. Of course, oil/gas prices would spike which means it'll never happen before January 20th. Honestly Israel is the best pit bull we can let run amok on them now while having all sorts of plausible deniability.

Remember Effects Based Targeting from ACSC? You know IMHO I've always thought a strike on the Iranian oil terminal facilities in the Persian Gulf or pipeline nodes in the desert would be the way to go. Enough to send a message they get 5X5 but without completely at this point destroying the infrastructure. Shut off their ability to export oil and the cash flow dries up. No more whack a mole trying to catch tankers circumventing an embargo.  They'll be "squealin from the feelin" soon enough. Of course, oil/gas prices would spike which means it'll never happen before January 20th. Honestly Israel is the best pit bull we can let run amok on them now while having all sorts of plausible deniability.

Saw a documentary about something like that once…

The attack even got the hostage released, so two goals achieved.


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Well… looks like Iran is flingin’ missiles again. Let’s hope for the same abysmal performance from them like last time..

 

Edited October 1, 20241 yr by Sim

FAFO Checks complete.

In response to the current economic environment…




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Someone's asking for the Nasrallah Treatment Plan.

Iran ain’t sending their best here…😄

Personally I think it was too round, needs to be pointy.

 

Edited October 1, 20241 yr by nsplayr

35 minutes ago, nsplayr said:

Iran ain’t sending their best here…😄

Personally I think it was too round, needs to be pointy.

 

They're bombing chicken coops! 

Curious to see what Israel does tonight/tomorrow.  There was an early and most likely wrong report that Israel struck Surface to Air defenses near an Iran nuclear site, but the timing doesn't make sense.  Iran is already trying to signal that was end of their response but Israel won't sit back and take the largest TBM strike in history.  God speed to our folks who will be in the middle of the mess.

They struck a bunch of early warning and SAM sites in Syria already, paving way to Iran.  

 

Good rollup of the strikes.  The airbase video was intense. 

I’m not smart on TBMs, can someone familiar with the technology explain the high miss rate?  Is their targeting bad or is it intentional, or is the Iron Dome that good?  I’d expect hundreds of TBMs lobbed at an urban area to result in mass casualties/destruction, but this and the (mostly intercepted) April attack seem ineffective.  I don’t know what to make this, but it appears Iran is completely incompetent.

 

Edited October 2, 20241 yr by tac airlifter

40 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

I’m not smart on TBMs, can someone familiar with the technology explain the high miss rate?  Is their targeting bad or is it intentional, or is the Iron Dome that good?  I’d expect hundreds of TBMs lobbed at an urban area to result in mass casualties/destruction, but this and the (mostly intercepted) April attack seem ineffective.  I don’t know what to make this, but it appears Iran is completely incompetent.

 

Multiple factors here:

First, Iran does not want to escalate into openly armed conflict with either the U.S nor Israel. They want to poke the bear enough and save face enough without having to expend significant resources and lives in such a conflict. They are cowards but smart cowards. 

Second, yes the Iron Dome is pretty darn good. They are constantly upgrading it and we are helping them with it. 

Third, we have multiple Fighter Squadrons deployed here with their radars pointed towards Iran after alerted. They’ve done a fantastic job eliminating most threats flying from the East. They’ve been supported by an increased Joint Early Warning presence between Cruiser Destroyers, E-2s, etc. Iran is also learning how to circumvent this increased presence. 

11 hours ago, dream big said:

Multiple factors here:

First, Iran does not want to escalate into openly armed conflict with either the U.S nor Israel. They want to poke the bear enough and save face enough without having to expend significant resources and lives in such a conflict. They are cowards but smart cowards. 

Second, yes the Iron Dome is pretty darn good. They are constantly upgrading it and we are helping them with it. 

Third, we have multiple Fighter Squadrons deployed here with their radars pointed towards Iran after alerted. They’ve done a fantastic job eliminating most threats flying from the East. They’ve been supported by an increased Joint Early Warning presence between Cruiser Destroyers, E-2s, etc. Iran is also learning how to circumvent this increased presence. 

 Copy points 2 & 3 and the robust intercept capability; but for point one are you saying Iran is intentionally missing?  

18 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

 Copy points 2 & 3 and the robust intercept capability; but for point one are you saying Iran is intentionally missing?  

From what I can see on unclass side, it appears nothing was targeted at urban areas except for the mossad headquarters.  The airbases got hit pretty hard with one confirmed runway hit but 'apparently' no real damage.  They were able to hit some targets back during the Al Assad attack so they are capable but it does seem strange.  Hard to tell if incompetent or intentional poor targeting for some.  They had to know that they had already poked the bear and regardless of the BDA, they were going to get a substantial strike back with nothing to show for it.  

Edited October 2, 20241 yr by uhhello

Iron Dome is for smaller threats, David's Sling for medium range threats, and The Arrow for longer range threats.  Google says the latter two were developed in the U.S.  How all that worked against the Iranian missiles, I have no idea.