Russia and China learned a lot about missile defense.  that's probably worth suckering the mullahs into looking like the incompetent loudmouth bully on the playground.

I've been curious to see how well Israel could sneak over Jordan into Iran with their F35s. Perhaps we shall find out. They sure did a hell of an op with their F16s years ago. Just curious to see how much sneakier they can be with F35s.

Obviously this operation was to get the optics of a reprisal for the domestic crowd of Iran. Something firey to put on TV to show they fought back.

Pretty telling about the true state of affairs when Iran is intentionally pulling punches in their retaliation to keep WW3 from breaking out while our allies and neocons are begging for more death and destruction.

I thought that they posted a picture of an F35, taken from another F35 over Tehran a few years ago.

If they could be embarrassed, they'd use deodorant.

It’s stupid shit like this that shows me just how dumb some people are.

And?  Iran took credit.

It was a face-saving "show of force" for internal optics, nothing more.  Same thing with the "attack" on Israel.

At this point, I'm convinced Iran asks permission from the U.S. before making any military moves and that's why Biden keeps sending them billions.

It depends on what you are flying. Kites are easy targets.

Trump has said as much in a recent interview with Maria Bartiromo.  It was all about not appearing weak, it was just an expensive fireworks display.

Wayment. If we sent less than 0% of our stockpiles somewhere we're "critically short and putting our war fighting ability at risk".

If they do it they "could have struck a lot harder".

Intredasting

I'm starting to think they the good guys and the government we support with our passive submission and tax dollars is the true evil in the world.

and out tax dollars paid for both sides.

And who would make those with what chips? Perhaps in time we can come up with cost effective countermeasures but that's something we could be facing in months with solutions that could take years to develop. Unless we have some massive drone manufacturer based in the US I'm unaware of. I could see Taiwan spinning something up but they'd likely be the first target from China.

Ask the VC

We seized billions from Iran, not the US taxpayers. That's what Mr Potato head is releasing back to fund the terrorists.

Excuse me sir. This is GD. We don't have time to ruminate on the fact that this is what unraveling the US as world police looks like.

Tldr: more outrage, less thought. Thank you for your compliance.

The amount of full retard in this thread is astonishing, even for GD.

Hitting ~350 targets in under an hour across nearly every spectrum of aerial vehicle (ICBMs being the notable exception, but in terms of defense there isn't much difference between ICBM and MRBM) with a coordinated international defense is an event that changed modern warfare. Most of you don't realize it, but it did. If you look at it compared to UA (the next best comparison) this is another universe.

I'm not going to explain in detail why, because it's obvious that for far too many posters it's way beyond the level of education and basic comprehension. I will say- Hitting a salvo of 2-3 mrbms alone between a few coordinated pieces in an Aegis system was a monumental win only 7-10ish years ago. ETA: And I'm talking about a controlled, rehearsed "test" in perfect conditions. This used multiple defense systems, coordinated over a huge geographic area, tracking targets individually with wildly different flight envelopes, across at least 3 different militaries and 5 different countries. Seriously, if you can't wrap your head around what happened then stop posting here and go educate yourself a little before posting.

IRGC threw almost everything they had Israel. There is no arguing that. They are deeply embarrassed. Their current defense against a counter-attack is the typical terrorist defense: Hide behind civilians. They are maintaining their airspace open when they know full well an attack could come at any minute. They know very well whatever the retaliation is, in terms of damage, it will be magnatudes greater than what they accomplished. Iran's only hope is a political win or net neutral. They might have already achieved that because far too much of the world, including posters here, are just too wimpy and woke. The people of Iran are on the verge of a full on revolution. They are exceptionally "tired" of the IRGC, and Israel needs to play it's cards right to further embarrass the IRGC, but also show support to the actual people of Iran. Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi are actively engaged in the political side of this.

Israel will retaliate. They hold grudges. They hold grudges for thousands of years. Love it or hate it, your opinion doesn't matter. That's part of the Israeli ethos and they believe it essential to their very survival, end of story.

Economics.

$10k drone v. $1 mil missile.  Just like what the Iranians told the Houthis to do against the missiles the USN was shooting down.  Pretty soon the $1 mil missile shooter will run out of ducats.  

Now throw in what Hezbollah is preparing to launch.  No more Iron Dome b/c it's too expensive.

Israel economy stops when there's war.  That's why Israel likes quick wars but Hamas (and Hezbollah) have a longer term strategy (attrition and Stalingrad).

Xerxes would like a word.

That is very well articulated.
You summed up what I am trying to say very well.  Thank you!

To be fair, they are pretty good at shooting down anything in the air.

Own goals are still a win in Russia.

What is this, 90s missile prices?

What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and reality?

About 6 weeks.

Ukraine, Russia, South Korea, Iran and France, respectively, round out the Top 5 for annual engineering graduates, per capita.

The United States is a distant ... 9th place.  Mexico is 8th.

I get multiple requests for graduate student positions from Iranian prospective students ever single day.

As someone said in the big thread'

Looks like Iran is now in the FO stage of FAFO

Yeah but the F35 ain't got legs and israel has no ability to strike iran. I learned it in GD.

The impressive thing about the iranian attack was the volume and the speed with which the iranians were able to regenerate. That is the REAL message they sent. Within 48 hrs of the attack they had all that and more ready to go again.
 They were trying to show that they put out massive waves with a short regeneration period. The message was heard loud and clear. While people with laymans perspective are thinking how badass it is that us/we/them stopped them all, the people who plan this shit are alarmed because iran showed they can overwhelm the system.

Israel will retaliate. The plans been rubber stamped and interestingly, Jordan seems to want a piece of it. Strange times we live in.

yeah right, that's probably the best they had.