Sure. By itself. What about containment? Coolant? Rad suits? Or the fact that they brought half a company of spec ops guys they also still have to carry out of there?
Are they just carrying weapons grade uranium on a pallet jack in your scenario? I have four hazardous materials professional certifications dude, one of which is for radiological material.
Plain and simple. This did not happen. It wasn't even attempted. It would be beyond insane, actually it would be beyond cartoonish for this to have actually happened.
ISR(Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recon) overmatch means that they can get more precise data, intel, lock-ons, locations, and identification... faster than we can.
Which in this case, they can in both categories. The Satcom groups within the DoW were not happy with us taking this fight. We still have too many constellations feeding data to the ungrateful Zelensky regime, and satellites aren't movable on a whim or for free. They only have so much fuel for course corrections and you can't move them all at once.
I read the Simplicius post too. He's off base here. Two C130s aren't nearly enough carry weight for the amount of uranium we're talking about here. If the objective was the fuel, they'd have been better off poisoning it with an unreactive element of some kind or just blowing it up, which doesn't take a massive raid to do.
There is no real scenario where they were attempting a bank robbery trying to carry uranium out on a pallet cart or something.
And that's just the logistics part of moving something that heavy, doesn't even begin to address that it's fucking radioactive. No rad suits or rad gear were claimed on the scene by either side. And the Iranians certainly have a good reason to say so if they'd caught us doing that.
Sure. Which isn't going to get that job done. That's why I brought up dedicated QRF. Because you'd need one to actually make a capture.
Lots and lots of the country isn't inhabitated by people with much communication equipment more precise than a radio.
And the Iranian leadership has been doing their level best to keep those guys from invading Iraq anyway.
Iran's military forces are heavily decentralized, it's been part of their doctrine for more than a decade. They can't react extremely quickly for individual objectives like a more centralized command structure can. The flip side of that is they are very hard to actually kill, which is what they're going for since they recognized correctly that our silly excuse for a doctrine focuses on decapitation strikes.
So no, they probably have no dedicated QRF to go bag some guy they downed.
Does anyone else believe me yet that that is not the real Donald Trump?
Trump was a masterful rhetorician. He didn't post pouty rants and run on sentences in all caps.
Trump was more than six feet tall. This guy barely beats out the functional midget Joe Rogan.
Trump avoided foreign wars in preference to precision strikes to punctuate diplomacy. This guy does whatever Netanyahu tells him to.
Trump openly and publicly despised islam. This guy, well.
The actual Donald Trump, the 6'3" inch version that rallied people behind him ten years ago, is not in charge of the White House right now. He could be dead, locked up, blackmailed with the life of a loved one, whatever. But he's been gone for at least six months.
Worse. Slaves are kept in line. They don't shit everywhere, harass white women, scam everyone they see and constantly try to bring in more slaves.
Slavery is unironically more moral and functional a system than importing jeets.
Incorrect on their part. The Chinese rejected them a while ago, that's why they started pushing the Ukraine and why they're so desperate right now.
Their fallback spots have been systematically dismantled, almost suspiciously well. One could very well presume a counter conspiracy.
I've been to Qatar. Yes they are sex pests. Arabs are jeets, they are genetically the same race.