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Someone add Ayatollah to the "not happy Amazon reviewer" shitpost
>>64909902I can imagine they're operating through Turkish airspace and that allows them to strike at a different set of targets then everyone in the Arabian. Israel also flew through Iraqi airspace during their war with Iran, and I can't imagine Syria is capable of stopping the US either if they want to use the airspace beyond a strongly worded letter. I can easily believe there was a deal struck with the new Syrian government to allow US operations in exchange for helping to legitimize them, and the Taliban have their own border war with Pakistan at the moment that is probably more important then the US flying overhead and honestly might be to their benefit since I can't imagine the US is going to be happy about non-US strike craft being in the airspace.
>>64909921>operating through Turkish airspaceTurks hate the USA. Turks also require a big bribe to do anything.>Israel also flew through Iraqi airspaceIsrael does not give a fuck about anything other than Israel.>Syrian governmentIrrelevant. Jorden and Iraq would be the pathway from Israel to Iran.>TalibanCompletely irrelevant. That would be the longest most retarded route. The USS Ford SCG being in the med makes it completely useless to protect/ support the Lincoln CGS against Naval threats from Iran and also whomever else is going to jump it. Also Yemen is going to join up with Iran. If China or someone else things they are going to throw a sub into the mix to be sneaky, then that leaves the Lincoln CGS exposed.
>>64909944Turks are military allies of the United States you third world fuckwit>chinese submarines attacking a US carrier groupI really fucking wish a nigga would, but I question what kind of life you have to lead to even consider this possibility, let alone come up with it unprompted
>>64909944>Turks hate the USA. Turks also require a big bribe to do anything.Carrot and stick like anything else, I wouldn't be surprised to see a MIC purchase from Turkey by the US in the near future but they are a NATO partner>Israel does not give a fuck about anything other than Israel.Donald Trump's US mil can also going to be that ego-centric, especially with thirdie nations that don't have a good relationship with the US to worry about ruining, like Iraq and Syria atm.>Naval threats from Iranlol and lmao, is that you Van Ripper?>Yemen is going to join up with IranYemen is incapable of doing anything more then shooting at random shipping with Iranian supplied missiles, and that spigot just got shutoff. I do hope they hit another humanitarian aid shipment headed to Iran for old time's sake before they run out, though.>If China or someone else things they are going to throw a sub into the mix to be sneakysee my comments about naval threats from Iran, but even harder and louder
There's a good chance Trump spams Iran with Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles for 2 WeeksCarriers are not going to be anywhere near Iran when the strikes start, so no carrier sinking.
>>64909934People who regularly give their big fancy weapons to terrorists and other non-state actors aren't going to be allowed to have nuclear weapons that they might think are funny to give away some day, and while their strikes on Israel during the war weren't effective, they did launch enough that if any of them had a nuclear warhead, it would have been a problem. It turns out that if you constantly fuck with everyone around you, no one is going to be happy to let you get nukes. North Korea gets to have nukes because they don't fuck with anyone else at a big enough level to be a problem worth dealing with, since having to integrate the population of North Korea to the rest of the world is a much bigger economic threat then their actual nukes.
>>64909939ukrops are slavs, which are white-adjacentirgc fuck goats for a living
>>64892025Something blew up in Bahrain
What color flag do they have up?
>>64909951Norks are allowed to have nukes because it would be a headache to attack them, seoul would get recked and most importantly norks having nukes is a much bigger ballache for china. If iran was located between india and china US wouldn’t give a shit about their nuclear saber rattling.
Best name for a special military operation?
We had some great ones in the late 80s/early 90s, Acid gambit, eagle claw, gothic serpent, desert storm, etc. Newer shit like inherent freedom and inherent resolve sound gay. I do appreciate operation tomodachi, its not a cool name but it feels warm given the context.
>>64909948Operation Old Shoe
Moar like Operation Reddit
Tfw despite the decades, despite the large spending, the British Military still rains supreme>an SAS unit was assigned to a navy seam base in Iraq>the Seals had a sign that said “second to NONE”>overnight, while the fat Seals were sleeping, British SAS led a brilliant raid, stealing the “NONE” part of their signSeals embarrassed Another example >during Iraq war, a cocky Yank officer approached a handsome British colonel after a brief >the slack jawed redneck stated: “this team has room for one quarterback. I’m the quarterback, so what does that make you??”>the cunning, handsome British officer asked “who does the quarter back report to?”>”errr to the coach, duh!” Said the yank>”call me coach, rather” >the American Republican left in embarrassment
Is there any truth to the idea that the SAS are better than every other special forces outfit? I feel as though it's true but I can't think of any logical reason why it would be.>>64909721lmao
>>64909539delusional
>>64909928>Is there any truth to what the perfidious anglo has to say.The answer is always NO.
>>64909941SAS trains U.S. special forces
haha great story now give us back our dog
https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!Previous thread: >>64902309>Images (limit reached)
>>64909706Fuck, only reason I joined mine was to score burned CDs full of fansubs and anime OSTs from them because most people still had dialup and downloading took literal ages. Yes, I am that old.
>>64908723Condom?! GROSS
This is a healthy friendship.
>>64909887She loves it.
Cop Butt.
Hard mode: only movies that only you have seen
>>64901571tommy lee jones takes over central park
This is a classic.
Uncommon Valor - a "lets rescue the last Vietnam POWs" style film which is is far better than it sounds, with an absolutely fantastic cast, very good story, and is just really well written.
>>64909893goat
where does this myth of harsh land=hardy people=better soldiers come from? evidently many writers and authors either liked the idea or genuinely believed in it. which at this point begs the question: were there really cases in history in which a harsh environment created superior warriors?
>>64909189>performed abysmally against Islamic hill tribes in the Caucasus foothills.And then all Circassians just went away on their own to celebrate their stunning victory.
>>64907090Idealisation of natives during European colonialism.
>>64908656>Emphasis needs to be given to the fact that there are what, a few million Fremen and this is a war that would involve trillions of soldiers.Emphasis needs to be given to the fact that there are a few million Fremen holding the spacing guild by their balls, and this is a war that would involve trillions of soldiers facing total embargo on their planets.
>>64907095tbqh it kind of went back and forth for millennia, it wasn't "pastoralists always win" and then "sedentary states always win", you had times when sedentary states were on top and then other times when pastoralists were on top, depending on climate, political situation, talents of individual leaders, etc. The Manchu pastoralists crushed the sedentary Ming over a century after the sedentary Russians had crushed the pastoralist Tatars. Even some industrial societies benefited greatly from pastoralist elements within them, e.g. the USA was an industrial society but their westward colonial push was being done by their own pastoralist ranchers, which in turn were also a recruiting pool for their military.Anyways, to answer OP's question, they're mistaken. It's more that harsh environments tend to favour pastoralism more than agriculture, and pastoralism tends to lead to both better nutrition than historical agriculture and a higher ratio of useful soldiers, so indirectly harsh environments do usually lead to societies that can punch above their weight in terms of martial quality, but this isn't because "hurr hard lands make hard men" but rather because pastoralism tends to be the adopted mode in those regions, and historical agriculture kind of sucked as a lifestyle if you weren't in the upper 1%. You could practice pastoralism in nice areas if you really want to and you'd be able to field soldiers who were just as hale as any steppe nomad.The difference is also more pronounced in asia where most of the famous nomad-sedentary conflicts occurred, because in asia they practiced really unhealthy, miserable rice paddy farming and were societally quite distinct from the pastoralist nomads in the adjacent steppe, whereas in say Europe there was more of a blend of agriculture and transhumant pastoralism within the same cultures.
>>64907090The explicit testimony of commanders with regard to Berber, Manchurian, and Gorkha troops at various points in time.
Fire Point just published the first video of an FP-7 ballistic missile launch (probably filmed during testing)With sound:https://streamable.com/9bby2z
>>64908673Fap&Cum
>>64907289yeah but the math requires a lot of mathing, isn't perfect, and even after you've mathed it you're still going to need to do a lot of testing and tweaking to make it perfectrockets R hard, so cheat
How much AD does Russia have left? What about compared to pre war? After 4 years of being thinned I believe there should be a lot less.
>>64907296let's not forget>pioneer an entirely new class of arms>world leader in drone warfare>ukie mic factories popping up all around europe
>>64907041>>64907061>first germs give them unearthed V-1 blueprints>now they have V-2 ballistic missiles, likely from the same sourceWhat's the ETA on crest-piloted flying discs?
21 Tomahawks flying towards iran>21 Tomahawks flying towards iran21 Tomahawks flying towards iran>21 Tomahawks flying towards iran21 Tomahawks flying towards iran>21 Tomahawks flying towards iran
>>64909932Could someone feasibly hang on from a tomahawk
Tomahawks flew over my house!
>Is drone warfare a result of the Soviet Union’s collapse?Many pubblications are making the case that drone warfare emerged because of lack of armies capable of generating large highly trained mechanized formations in the European theatre like the soviet union used to and therefore are reverting to drones because they are cheap and easily aviablehttps://warontherocks.com/2026/02/is-the-age-of-drones-really-the-age-of-poor-maneuver/
>>64909532>Many pubblications are making the case that drone warfare emerged because of lack of armies capable of generating large highly trained mechanized formations in the European theatre like the soviet union used toPeople forget that this war did not start in 2022 but 2014. Ukraine and Russia had been building fortifications for 8 years, it is no wonder this turned into a slog.>are reverting to drones because they are cheap and easily aviableReverting? That is an odd word to choose. Drones have been in widespread use for 20 years and using massive amounts of small commercial drones in a peer conflict is quite new. I will say this though, static lines have made quadcopter hunting much more viable than a faster war of maneuver would but I would still put a lot of that down to mining and fortifying in the 8 year stall.
>>64909581>Syrian Civil WarWe did see rapid maneuver when nato was involved against ISIS>Israel-Hamas WarHamas spent decades preparing fortifications also we saw rapid offensives through Israel several campaigns for example Lebanon or they being able to freely bomb Iran and operate on Iran’s soils.>US VenezualaStill rapid war of maneuver The pattern is that when a great power attacks a smaller country they do are able to enact maneuvers even if drones are aviable
>>64909608>fortificationsIt's not just fortifications, since you could've literally just go around them, if it was the sole issue.It's a combination of:- fortifications;- transparent battleground (recon drones allow you to know of enemy movement before it even happens);- cheap attack drones;
>>64909532I mean half-and-half. The USSR at its height would have rolled into Kyiv before the government could mount any counter attack. Likewise, a well oiled Russian army would take over key cities before there is time to mount counter-measures. It's right that this is in part due to the stagnation of the front lines and then people having effectively all the time in the world to construct drones. But they are also really cheap, and effective, and exploit gaps in our traditional air defense networks. They assume something is big and flying fast, meanwhile these fly low and slow. All armored vehicles will need little turrets to shoot these down, and there needs to be a new layer of air defense to deal with them.
>>64909532>Is the blitzkrieg really just a result of poor trenchbuilding?equally stupid statement.
>2026>He's still using a magic staffLiterally every study that's gone into the practicality of magical implements as weapons agrees that staves are inferior to wands for almost every purpose. Yes, you can channel more mana at a time, but the wand's superior precision, not to mention ease of transport and concealment, make it superior in every other way. The only possible use for a staff over a wand is when you need to break through a barrier spell, and if you need a weapon that's thirty times as heavy to pull that off, you're not beating that enemy wizard anyway.
>>64906286>>64909182around elves, watch yourselves
>Become an omnipotent immortal superwizard>Immediately create four daughter-clones of yourself who have lesser versions of your powers, and just have sex with them endlessly>Don't even give them the dignity of marrying them or proper names, just call them variations of Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma so you don't have to memorize unique namesWhat a fucking asshole.
>>64907832Tell me about it. I had hair like an elf when I was in my 20s, right up until my senior year at the Mages College when my academic advisor randomly told me I was technically only a few credits shy of getting a minor in enchantment of all things. I just needed a hard natural philosophy. It sounded easy enough. And I thought, hey it doesn't get more natural philosophical than alchemy, right? But that one extra class was the straw that broke the aurochs' spine. I couldn't sleep, I was barely eating, I was jittery as fuck, and worst of all, my hair started falling out. In clumps. All because of a fucking introductory course.
>>64906081You young wizzas just don't appreciate a good stick. All the shiny spellslingers these days talk about is concealability or pocketability, but a good stick carries you. No hex-synthetic or arcana-polymer wand is as durable as a a sturdy walking stick. And if you're not man enough to beat a vandal to death with your own strength without magic, then I suggest you put down your quills and stop debating the fineries of unicorn hair or phoenix feather and touch some grass. Magic exists in the world, not in your ivory tower, take a damn walk and call your grandmother before she flies over their on her broom and shows you how much mayhem an old witch can conjur.
Cop or not?
>Stabs trough metal & leatherI really hate how media makes armor look borderline useless, it really is just a cosmetic to them.
>>64892695>Local Militia hacked to death with polearm strikes to the legs by professional soldiery
>>64873099it's not really hard to wind up like that though. it's pretty fast. most hema dudes look uncoordinated as fuck desu.
>>64865173you never heard about attacking at the chinese in the armor?
>>64908863lelone of the things I hate about this brave new world is that that used to be one of my favourite phrases, AND I'm a chink, yet *I* still can't use that word because it's "offensive", putatively to MEcontemplate thatI'VE been told by a lynch-mob of white women what MY culture is AND how I should obey what THEY *think* is "inoffensive"fucking hell
>>64867117Are we airduct posting here?
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260219-airbus-ready-to-build-two-new-european-fighter-jets-if-customers-ask>Airbus, which represents Germany and Spain in the multibillion-euro FCAS warplane program, will support a proposal to instead build two separate jets if the countries participating in the project request it, chief executive Guillaume Faury said Thursday.So to save FCAS, Airbus wants to split the program into two variants (like the F-35 with A and C variants) with as much commonality as possible, except Dassault is still resisting to the idea of handing over any of its fighter expertise to Airbus as it sees them not as a partner, but as a competitor.So is that's it, FCAS is dead isn’t it?
>>64907462Only way to "defend" them would have been to take over their country. Venezuela style, and you'd still need an aircraft-carrier for that.So you basically support France need a carrier or even two, just, use them US style.
No wonder Krauts are getting 80 F-35
>>64887005>European countries are too narcissistic to ever develop proper weapon systems in cooperative programs.Typhoon proves you wrong. Anyhow, they rather their own thing than relying on Donald Drumpf.
>>64887005This was entirely true until the actions of the current administration which have had a revitalising effect on the European defense industry.
>>64909778>buy overpriced French-Indian weapons whose specs were sold even before the first unit completes buildingFixed that for you.
