Israel, US Strike Iran After Weeks Of Warning, Explosions Heard In Tehran

Agreed to a certain extent. However, it makes sense to counter it and do so within a certain timeframe. It helps keep your counter arguments floating in the SM bubble.

Oh yeah. We definitely need to filter them, counter them and stop them from disseminating into Indian viewerships. There are many Jyoti( spy for ISI) and other ISI stooges to stab bharat in the back.
 
View attachment 50111

Russia was behind the 2023 attacks on Israel, just look at the timing. They're not helping Iran because they're at their limit.



About china
Iran accounts for only 13-15% of China's oil supply.

Though with entire middle East in turmoil with both Iran's and other gulf countries's oil assests being targeted.
Entire, Global economy will have a difficult time.

America and Russia being major oil producing countries will benifit somewhat.
 
  • Like
Reactions: RationalGuy
Russia was behind the 2023 attacks on Israel, just look at the timing.
Timing serves as a useful indicator for narrowing possibilities, but it remains circumstantial rather than definitive because sequence does not necessarily equate to causality.
 
Isareli RA-01 stealth UCAV in action,

Maybe we aren't importing the right drones from isarel, instead of Hermes they should have make case for these,
Long range loitering drones Will give you longer striking range, saturates enemy AD, but there are now solution for it with marginal cost, countries will no induct in large scale,

But it's harder to shot down something which you find difficult to detect, track & lock onto it, the warfare is evolving and we have to be one step ahead, we already missed as first mover in drone warfare and playing catch it up,
Having stealth UCAV can change lot of equation, to detect track lock into it you need complex AD, the economic costs to maintain the entire kill chain also be lot higher, not everyone will have the ability to shoot it down only a few,
We already have the tech, we already have the VLO drone, but as usual our priorities are missing, we already move ahead from Shahed 136, geran type of drones with requirements of AI technology, GPS Denial enviornment, EW system, but having SWIFT K in hundreds will put as ahead of the curve,
Stealth- yes
Autonomous -yes

This project has gone Cold, no new updates, Swift -K can fill the gap between Ghatak & loitering drones,
1000123664.jpg
 
Israeli air strikes against Iranian military equipment. The strike on Iran was the largest in the history of the Israeli Air Force, involving approximately 200 fighter jets and 500 US combat aircraft.
Strikes have already been carried out against 500 targets in Iran. Iran's air defenses are unable to repel such a large air attack, especially the massive number of cruise missile attacks. Apparently aware of this, Iran is trying to preserve its air defense systems and uses them only locally.

 
I haven't seen that much use of MANPADs in this war.
Some SHORADS but nothing much.
Ig, iranians do not have older igla's or verba.
 

Supposedly, Pakistan has deployed Chinese-made LY-80 (export version of HQ-16) medium-range SAMs to Saudi Arabia under the Mutual Defence Agreement signed in 2025:


The systems will be operated under Pakistani command.

Don't know how much truth there is to this report but if this is accurate, the potential for serious deconfliction errors in the overall C&C of the region is massive. A Chinese ADS operating in a battlespace managed by US datalinks & networks could be a disaster waiting to happen.

Not to mention the security risk of US stealth aircraft radar signatures being potentially recorded/compromised by the HQ-16/LY-80's accompanying radar systems. It's a given that F-35s, F-22s and other stealth aircraft in the region are operating in active combat missions without their Luneberg lenses.
 

Supposedly, Pakistan has deployed Chinese-made LY-80 (export version of HQ-16) medium-range SAMs to Saudi Arabia under the Mutual Defence Agreement signed in 2025:


The systems will be operated under Pakistani command.

Don't know how much truth there is to this report but if this is accurate, the potential for serious deconfliction errors in the overall C&C of the region is massive. A Chinese ADS operating in a battlespace managed by US datalinks & networks could be a disaster waiting to happen.

Not to mention the security risk of US stealth aircraft radar signatures being potentially recorded/compromised by the HQ-16/LY-80's accompanying radar systems. It's a given that F-35s, F-22s and other stealth aircraft in the region are operating in active combat missions without their Luneberg lenses.
Also how will the friend and foe identification works in such dense environment with Chinese system?
 
Iran's air defenses shot down an Israeli Heron TP heavy multirole UAV. In Israel, the Heron TP UAV is designated the IAI Eitan UAV and has been in production since 2004. The location of the footage is unknown. The IAI Eitan UAV reaches speeds of up to 407 km/h, flies at altitudes of up to 14,000 meters, and has a payload of up to 1,000 kg. The second part of the video shows the downing of an Israeli Hermes 450 UAV, possibly a Hermes 900. It's worth noting that, for unknown reasons, Iran is not using its air defenses to their full potential.