I'm sure everyone has seen the footage floating around of missiles hitting Israel.
All I have to say is that, when it's all over, I hope there's nobody left on either side still capable of shaking down the US for "aid".
Yeah, I know, it'll never happen. But one must remain optimistic.
I wouldn't ever want to underestimate Persians.
If I was Iran I would be testing the Iron Dome, so would send a bunch of missiles to get shot down as cover for the ones with effective countermeasures that I would aim at empty fields to make them look like failures. Even have them self-destruct once they got through the Dome.
You can't test the Dome without a pretext and knowing how to defeat defenses is way more valuable than actually doing it because then you can do it at a time of your choosing and the enemy doesn't prepare.
Missiles seem to be a poor strategy overall. At the same time there was an old-fashioned terror attack in Tel-Aviv that killed 6 and wounded a dozen.
I'd imagine what we'll see is ballistic missiles that release a thousand drones each instead of a massive blast.
Small drones can be incredibly effective, but getting them into the area is the hard part.
Iran doesn't have that capability, know why? The US, Russia and China don't have that as if they did they'd be showing it off like the biggest dick in the changing room.
Think about ALL the things you have to do to make that work, first is just getting the missile to work, then securing the payload of drones, then having said drone be remotely controlled over long distance easily.
That's the baseline, how the fuck are they going to work after being launched at terminal velocity, suddenly released at high speed and not just smash into the ground? You're better off investing in Japan's railguns where their main issue is power supply.
I don't believe that for a minute. Do you know how easy it would be to have drones self destruct? Hell even have them embedded with a code to take it and explode in a very specific place. Meanwhile we are importing Chinese drones like they are democrat voters.
What he described is mere engineering and not nearly as difficult to deploy as a railgun.
You have no idea what capabilities the US has, because we absolutely do not show them off. The F-117 was kept black for decades before it was officially acknowledged. And they only admitted its existence because it was going into combat where everybody was going to see it.
Their missile strikes didn't do shit against a US base in Iraq causing moderate damage and no deaths.
After shooting down a civilian airliner.
I think it's safe to underestimate them.