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#91
Enigmas of the Mystical / Re: A feel good thread
Last post by Gusington - April 15, 2024, 07:56:49 PMWhy do you hate my happiness?
#92
Current Events / Re: Israel
Last post by GDS_Starfury - April 15, 2024, 07:18:47 PMI bet your fun at happy hour.
#93
Current Events / Re: Israel
Last post by Jarhead0331 - April 15, 2024, 06:41:49 PMPersonally, I never think war is a laughing matter and to mock your enemies is the first step to underestimating their capabilities. A regime like Iran only needs to get lucky once in order to inflict real damage. Remember, on February 25, 1991, a single Iraqi Scud missile got through defenses and managed to demolish a makeshift United States barracks in Dhahran that housed more than 100 American troops. 28 American soldiers were killed, 110 were hospitalized and 150 experienced physical injuries. This one Scud's impact accounted for more than a third of all US soldiers killed during the Gulf War. Needless to say, I find these kinds of social media posts and images/gifs to be very immature and unbecoming.
The threat posed by Iran has never been one of conventional weapon systems, so it does not come as any real surprise that the missile and drone attack was largely ineffective...although you can be assured that those on the ground in harms way probably weren't telling jokes and making memes on their computers while the sirens were blaring.
According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, Iran has adapted its military capabilities and doctrine to account for developments by the United States and its allies. Although still technologically inferior to most of its competitors, the DIA notes that the Iranian military has progressed substantially over the past few decades. Iran's use of unconventional warfare elements, proxy forces and asymmetric capabilities pose a persistent threat. Furthermore, each of these forces are becoming increasingly survivable, precise, and responsive. We've already seen how Iranian attacks and those of their proxies can impact global shipping and thereby the entire world economy. Not so much of a laughing matter in my view.
The threat posed by Iran has never been one of conventional weapon systems, so it does not come as any real surprise that the missile and drone attack was largely ineffective...although you can be assured that those on the ground in harms way probably weren't telling jokes and making memes on their computers while the sirens were blaring.
According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, Iran has adapted its military capabilities and doctrine to account for developments by the United States and its allies. Although still technologically inferior to most of its competitors, the DIA notes that the Iranian military has progressed substantially over the past few decades. Iran's use of unconventional warfare elements, proxy forces and asymmetric capabilities pose a persistent threat. Furthermore, each of these forces are becoming increasingly survivable, precise, and responsive. We've already seen how Iranian attacks and those of their proxies can impact global shipping and thereby the entire world economy. Not so much of a laughing matter in my view.
#94
Current Events / Re: Israel
Last post by GDS_Starfury - April 15, 2024, 06:22:27 PM #95
Enigmas of the Mystical / Re: More Pix For A Laugh
Last post by GDS_Starfury - April 15, 2024, 05:28:20 PM #96
Current Events / Re: RUSI article on Attritiona...
Last post by bobarossa - April 15, 2024, 04:24:09 PMHow long until we run out of the expensive missiles, etc that we are using to kill those drones? I would say it would be long before we could spin up replacement quantities given that the Ukraine was has gone on over 2 years and what have we got for artillery shell replacement?
#97
Enigmas of the Mystical / Re: A feel good thread
Last post by Windigo - April 15, 2024, 04:05:09 PMThe taller one....
#98
Music, TV, Movies / Re: Fallout
Last post by ArizonaTank - April 15, 2024, 02:16:54 PMBethesda released the character "stats" for the TV series characters...
Not sure I agree with them all...but its fun...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/bethesda-has-revealed-fallout-tv-characters-stats/ar-BB1lFzg2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6ef037b9cd7340709cb9b74335583008&ei=9
Not sure I agree with them all...but its fun...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/bethesda-has-revealed-fallout-tv-characters-stats/ar-BB1lFzg2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6ef037b9cd7340709cb9b74335583008&ei=9
#99
Current Events / Re: The Great American Solar E...
Last post by Tripoli - April 15, 2024, 01:48:11 PMI was doing a little processing of my eclipse images this weekend. Here's a detail of one of the photos I took at 13:51:36 CST. You can see some of the fine detail in the solar prominence.
#100
Current Events / Re: RUSI article on Attritiona...
Last post by GDS_Starfury - April 15, 2024, 12:36:11 PMQuote from: FarAway Sooner on April 15, 2024, 12:19:15 PMIt's unclear if NATO has the ability to sweep the skies of cheap and plentiful Russian drones which seem to have been revealed as among the primary enemies of maneuver warfare.
this ability was pretty much proven last night over Syria and Iraq.