Been blowing up all over FB remembering that statue of the tank I'd say that sucker hit in the same area our barracks where in 2019

And if I'm looking at it right seem like this was the culprit, gotta say I want aware they had this kinda range to them

That's what I was telling the guys the other day, they're producing some impressive drones and in cahoots with Russia.

can we mount a bunch of Seawiz on Duce and a halfs and set them up to intercept those drones ?

I've only ever seen concept art for portable units. They do have a lot of options that would take say a 50cal or similar and so could fit on a Humvee but don't think any of those are actually being deployed at the moment.

I know a lot of bases that had a lot of mortars and the like hitting them had camouflage Cwiz units

Thought they where just selling them to everyone more then anything

The full story on the drones is they used tech off one of our recon drones that fell into their hands back in the Nobama administration to build their Shaheed drones. They sold some of those to Russia to use against Ukraine. Ukraine got ahold of a few and sent us some to study on.
So we in turn built our own improved variant.

Turn about is fair play, I guess.

I thought I had seen one mounted on a tracked vehicle back when Israel was getting hammered following Oct 7 but I might be wrong on that.

I would think that for the ranges most maneuver units/convoy/etc would need for close in suppression could be covered by smaller 30 caliber minigun based units. Those could be small enough for truck or track mount assuming the electronics could be scaled down as well.

Do the larger caliber ones have airburst capabilities? Seems like that might be useful against drone swarms to be able to lay down a curtain of flak.

The fact that one made it through does not mean our troops don't have the means to shoot them down. I seriously doubt Iran can produce more than what they already have on hand. I am confident also satellites have found most of them so that they can be destroyed on the ground.

I wish we had a end game strategy being made public. The senate trying to halt what is being done concerns me. The attack was made. Its time for the legislative branches to rally behind the president.

Google "lucas drone" That is the US version.

C-RAM is 20mm. It’s a pretty cool system. It puts out an audible warning when its radars have been alerted to an “incoming “ threat .
Then it goes ‘brrrrrrrrrrt’

That's a big truck too.

You don't go publishing end games or tactics or goals....Let'um guess and tell them when you are done!!!!! Give the military the discretion to do their job their best way, no Viet Nam micro planning from Washington.......jk

This^

But we are seeing something shape up that may very well be the desired end result.

This started as an Israeli/US thing but with Iran striking out wildly at everyone within reach we now have the Sauds, UAE, Dubai, Kuwait, Israel, Jordan, Greece, the UK all on board and working together. Note, the majority of the shia middle east working WITH Israel.

Lots of speculation that the final plan once Iran is done and defanged is to hand regional defense over to cooperating partners that have found themselves united under fire. That could allow the US to withdraw from the region altogether.

Meanwhile, China and Russia will have been curtailed as well.

There's a lot of crazy cell phone footage out there in the last few days. Some of the AI stuff is easily spotted. Anything on Funker530 is GTG.

Kuwait used our patriot missed and shot down 3 of our f16s in a friendly fire incident. All 6 air men were able to eject and we're not killed thankfully.

I was sitting on the porch, one night, when I heard that unmistakable ‘growl’ it puts out . It’s very intimidating.

Yeah I saw that too

All the news I am seeing about this was it was three F-15E's, and 6 service members, one being a woman.

I am glad we killed the Iranian leadership.

Keep pounding them back into the stone age.

....not really what we're talking about but cool

You're prob right in the plane k snow. Im not much on air plane and likely conflate the number destination.


I couldn't help but think how just a fraction of the money being spent could easily house all the homeless vets and fix social security.

. The play book seems familiar. A few days to weeks of limited strikes thet stretch into months that become boots in the ground for years only to be abandoned and nothing being accomplished.

May as well finish depleting whats left of our munitions we didnt sell our give away to Ukraine.


History would suggest we dont have a time line goals or clear exit strategy. Why would this time be any different than the last 60 years.

Hopefully when we end up with ground troop they let them fight without rules of engagement handy caps that put outr troops in more danger.

Trump obviously has a clear exit strategy.
Do you see any of our military fighting in Venezuela? According to the tds folks that was going to be the new Vietnam.
LOL

I'm going to guess after about two weeks we dont hear a ton about this---sorta like how Venezuela has slowly faded into the background, Trump doesnt have alot of options on this after taking a pretty big position on keeping us out of long term conflicts during his campaigning. If he is perceived as screwing up the next stages in the execution of this operation by enough of the right OR even more importantly the middle swing vote that got him elected it'll likely completely tarnish his presidency and set us up for democratic control beyond what is going to take place in the mid terms

The democrats will not get control of congress in November.

https://www.wboc.com/news/internati...f1ffdcb-4d70-5b85-8624-8f8b4a29bccf.html

Read this article this morning...pretty impressive how the Russians have improved the capability of this particular drone.

There are still a lot of layers of bad guys with lots of weapons and absolutely nothing to lose in Iran.

Meanwhile the world has a lot of happy Persians celebrating at this moment. Freedom is a wonderful thing for those who understand it.

Osky

I hope so. And that maybe this creates some stability in the region.

Either that or go all in total war fight to win none of the hearts and minds bs or police keeping nonsense. Go in with clear objective, contingency plans, and know when and how to make a quick clean exit.

Iran needed dealt with as did Sadam and that mess Afghanistan. I just dont want to see a repeat of the last two. Had a few young men I knew through my brother in law and sent packages to in Afghanistan that are dead now . Some in combat, some to their own hand when they got back. I see my brother in law struggling with the losses of friends and his own internal conflicts to this day. Sometimes taking a necessary shot is still difficult to live with. It may not be the bad actor being killed thats hard but the faces of the kids that witness the bad guy geting taken out ( the kids teacher that was calling in mortars on our guys from the school yard ) My brother in law just said probably I just created 20 more terrorists that day but had no choice. Morters were geting walked in and right on top of my guys. ( one of the drunk emotional stories I was told back when he first got back and having a hard time dealing.) For some reason he would talk to me and guys he served with but no one else. I dont know why he was comfortable sharing with me other than I was available and always been a big brother to him since he was 8.

And what good did it do looking at the place today. We pulled out and all of it seems to have been for nothing.

Im not anti war its absolutely necessary at times. I am against forever wars and our troops hands behind their backs and expecting them to fight like that.

Go in hit them quick hard kill them all and move on. Thats probably not profitable enough though.

Im becoming cynical I do believe.

Anyone else see Iran had a 5.2 earthquake.

North Korea had 5.4 i think when they did their nuke test.


Could be a successful nuke test not being talked about. I hope not.