U.S. Navy Delayed, Tanker Escorts Unavailable for Weeks
U.S. Navy Won’t Be Ready To Escort Tankers Through Hormuz For Weeks Escorting oil tankers in the strait is an incredibly high-risk mission, and might not even be enough to ensure their safe passage. We are live updating: https://t.co/ofZdY79JtI
Limited Cases Don't Prove Chinese Weapon Inferiority
Listen, I get the attraction of these kinds of pieces and conclusions about Chinese weapon systems, but there is a lot more to it than a handful of export systems operated by a foreign nation getting destroyed by an overwhelming...
Satellite Shows Possible B‑2 GBU‑57 Strikes on Iran’s
Did B-2s Just Drop GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators On Another Iranian Nuclear Site? Satellite imagery shows a prized hardened facility at Iran's Parchin military complex with three massive impact points in a neat row on top. https://t.co/iqrFn2XO2R
US Bombers Deploy Bunker Busters, Boost Air Supremacy Over Iran
Bombers In England Being Loaded With Bunker Busters A Sign Of Increasing Air Supremacy Over Iran There are now 15 American bombers that are flying strike missions against Iran from RAF Fairford. https://t.co/mveSNbKWeo
B‑1B’s Revolver‑Style Rotary Launcher Holds JASSMs
Great look at the rotary launcher/rack in a B-1B. Will be packed like a revolver's cylinder with JASSMs.
Iran Strikes Three Commercial Vessels in Hormuz Escalation
Iran Turns Up The Heat Around The Strait Of Hormuz Iran struck three commercial ships today in its continuing effort to inflict economic pain and political pressure on the U.S. and its allies. We are updating live: https://t.co/Nrf18TL3sz
Israeli Strikes Cripple Iran’s Remaining F‑14 Tomcats
Iranian F-14 Tomcats Meet Their Doom In Israeli Airstrikes Iran's Tomcats may have used up the last of their nine lives as the U.S. and Israel seek to neuter the country's air force. https://t.co/JGGYBDqHg4
Mines Stay Deployable via Boats and Trains Despite Port Loss
You can mine the waters using small boats and Iran trains to do exactly that. Even eliminating large ports won't keep them from retaining this capability, although it may make it harder. Hitting where the mines are stored is ideal,...
Serbian MiG‑29s Field Chinese CM‑400 Supersonic Missiles
Serbian MiG-29 Fighter Appears Armed With Chinese Supersonic Standoff Missiles Previously only known to be in Pakistani service, the Chinese-made CM-400 air-to-ground missile has now appeared on Serbian MiG-29 jets. https://t.co/HFecMXiP2D
E‑7A Wedgetail Excels at Spotting Iranian Drones
Massive Leap In Ability To Spot Iranian Drones Headed To Persian Gulf The E-7A Wedgetail is arguably the best aircraft anywhere in the world for spotting low-flying Iranian drones and cruise missiles. https://t.co/p5D8s2NIsM
US Vows Most Intense Iran Strikes, Bolsters UK Bomber Presence
Epic Fury Day 11: U.S. Promises “Most Intense Day Of Strikes” On Iran The U.S. adds to its bomber force deployed to the U.K. as Iranian drones and missiles continue to fly. Updating live: https://t.co/sYI5TrAwwu
Ballistic Missiles Target Iranian Ships, Signaling Future Warfare
U.S. Striking Iranian Navy Ships With Ballistic Missiles The use of ballistic missiles to hit adversary ships at long ranges is a preview of what is to come for the U.S. military. https://t.co/4nRoah8MWn
Pentagon's Hubris Delays Drone Defense, Finally Copies Shahed
This should surprise nobody considering how aloof and resistant the Pentagon has been to the drone threat for many years. Big Hubris is capabilities, look what it took to finally build a U.S. Shahed-136. The defensive side of the equation...
E‑7 Wedgetail: Top Low‑Altitude Drone & Sensor
So much garbage being passed around here in long jargon filled threads that sound like AI about E-7 Wedgetail and the potential RAAF deployment to the Middle East. Here is all you need to know: it’s arguably the best low...
False B‑21 Rumor Repeats Monthly in Media
Every month this bogus headline surfaces and goes around the human centipede that is modern media. A simple google by someone who knows nothing will make it clear this is not a thing. Its origins likely have to do with...
Risky Raid May Be Only Way to Secure Iran's Uranium
Special Operations Raid To Secure Iran’s Enriched Uranium May Become A Very Risky Necessity A raid is fraught with risk, but it may become the only way to make sure the nuclear material is safe and out of the regime's hands. https://t.co/Wlqxk84kyf
DARPA's X-76 to Test Fold‑Away Rotors By
Bell’s X-76 Fold-Away Rotor Aircraft Is DARPA’s Newest X-Plane Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed. https://t.co/Q9nYT16ovV
Airborne Tactics to Neutralize Transformers without Explosives
Taking out a power transformer/relay station from the air perhaps? A couple interesting ways to do that from the air without high explosive.
B‑52s Deploy to UK Base Amid Ongoing Iran Air Campaign
B-52s Arrive At U.K. Base As Air Campaign Over Iran Grinds On Three of the strategic bombers join a growing cadre of U.S. Air Force long-range strike assets deployed at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Back at it live updating: https://t.co/p2AoYPCPkv
GMTI: The Overlooked Tech Star of Modern Warfare
GMTI and what is actually providing it (use your imagination) is the real technological star of this war nobody is talking about.
Iranian Radar Strikes Expose Global Missile Defense Weaknesses
Iranian Attacks On Critical Missile Defense Radars Are A Wake-Up Call Iran's successful targeting of prized missile defense radars in the Middle East highlights global vulnerabilities. Feature: https://t.co/vGqhORYAMn
Iran's Missile Fleet Crippled; Underground Storage Backfires
Iran would have been better off stuffing them in warehouses, garages etc. Centralizing all your crap (that is already road mobile) in places with a couple entrances and exits beneath a mountain is a problem when going against the USAF/IAF.
Iran's Air War Halts Hormuz Shipping, Hits Regional Oil
Air War Against Iran Enters Week Two Iran continues to target its neighbors' oil production as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is nearly at a stand still. Latest: https://t.co/EOkyezfgoC
Insurance, Not Weapons, Keeps Strait of Hormuz Closed
Crazy the Strait of Hormuz isn’t closed really due to the mass employment of mines, anti ship missiles and swarming boat attacks but …. insurance.
Reduced Missile Threats Open Arabian Sea Route for Israel
Makes sense now that the ballistic missile threat and drone threat has greatly subsided for Israel. Better access from Arabian Sea.
U.S. Admiral Calls Kamikaze Drones Indispensable in Iran Conflict
LUCAS Kamikaze Drones Lauded As “Indispensable” By U.S. Admiral In Charge Of Iran War Cloned from the Iranian Shahed-136, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper praised the drones and their performance so far. https://t.co/1jrLntEJUb
Planet Labs Imposes 96‑hour Delay on Middle East Imagery
Just got this from Planet Labs, they are delaying posting imagery from specific areas in the Middle East 96 hours due to operational security concerns: Reads in part: As part of Planet’s commitment to responsible data practices and the safety of personnel...
Helios Laser Claims Debunked: It’s Actually ODIN Dazzler
I don't believe any of this is true. I have seen on big outlets and influencers hyping this up. I don't believe HELIOS is even deployed to the region nor has it downed a drone in combat nor would it...
CENTCOM Calls LUCAS Drones Indispensable Amid Inquiry
Our Howard Altman asking about the use and efficacy of LUCAS drones at the CENTCOM presser today.
Total Air Supremacy over Iran Not yet Achieved
The Misconception That Air Supremacy Has Been Achieved Over Iran While there are areas where air superiority exists over Iran, total air supremacy has not been achieved, which should be no surprise. https://t.co/jOLoFEFr1r
Ukraine's F‑16s Face Sidewinder Shortage Amid Middle East Demand
Ukrainian F-16s Had Only A Handful Of Sidewinder Missiles Available: Report The conflict in the Middle East is now also driving up the demand for and increasing scarcity of various kinds air-defense effectors. https://t.co/620olFVNxb
US Denies F‑15E Loss as Iran Escalates Drone Strikes
U.S. Denies F-15E Strike Eagle Went Down In Iran There are new risks as the U.S. expands its air campaign deeper into Iran, and meanwhile Iran has begun to strike Azerbaijan with drones. A little late this AM, we continue live updating:...
B‑52s Deploy JASSM Cruise Missiles in Iran Standoff
This came up in one of my threads yesterday as to B-52s and B-1s likely executing standoff strikes using cruise missiles fired from outside Iran, not direct attacks. This video confirms it, AGM-158 JASSMs on the wings. They were not...
MQ‑9 Reapers Dominate Ground and Naval Strikes In
MQ-9 Reapers appear do be doing a LOT of the heavy lifting against mobile ground targets and vessels in Epic Fury.
Iran’s Mobile Defenses Keep Eastern Airspace Contested
Declarations of air superiority are relative. Iran has road mobile air defenses that can hide and pop up out of nowhere. They have exotic stuff like loitering SAMs too. Moving fighters in for direct attacks doesn’t mean they can operate...
Supers FALCO APKWS Needed Now for Drone Defense
Got to get the Supers FALCO APKWS (air-to-air laser-guided rockets for swatting down drones and some cruise missiles) ASAP. Surprised this isn't a thing still after the Red Sea and the USAF going all in on it. The remaining roughly...
U.S. Submarines Haven’t
The Last Time A U.S. Navy Submarine Sunk An Enemy Ship In Combat While it's been almost a century since the last kill by an American submarine, other navies have done so more recently. https://t.co/k0NxA9Shy1
Air War Accelerates: Direct Strikes Target Eastern Front
This is going to be the conversion to direct strikes I have been talking about. Major acceleration of the air war. Lots untouched in the east, likely AD too.
Strikes Curb Iran's Missile Threat, Depleting Interceptor Reserves
Strikes Hobble Iranian Missile Threat As Concerns Over Interceptor Stockpile Mount There is a war of attrition ongoing between Iran's stockpiles of standoff weapons and the U.S. and its allies' supplies of interceptors. The latest, updating live: https://t.co/qjIQG0zn3Z
US Sinks Iran's Advanced Shahid Soleimani Warship
One Of Iran’s Most Advanced Wacky Catamaran Warships Sunk In Epic Fury The Shahid Soleimani class warship is now on the list of ships the U.S. has sunk, with the Iranian Navy looking more like a memory than anything else at...
Israel's Missiles Rely on Man‑in‑the‑loop Control
More man-in-the-loop control Israeli air-to-ground weaponry video. Likely a Delilah cruise missile or Spice 2000. More here on Israel's love of MITL and Delilah etc: https://t.co/Vw7fuL1ANe
Bandar Abbas Frigates and Submarine Confirmed Sunk After Fresh Strikes
Both frigates and the Kilo class submarine that were pierside in Bandar Abbas appear to have fully sunk. There also appears to have been another round of strikes since the first satellite image went viral.
Kuwaiti Hornet Shoots Down Three U.S. F‑15
Kuwaiti F/A-18 Hornet Responsible For Shooting Down Three USAF F-15E Strike Eagles: Report The bizarre friendly fire incident resulted in the total loss of all three Strike Eagles, but their crews survived. https://t.co/CRnKlnLVDa
Trump's Plan Forces US Navy Into Hormuz Danger Zone
Trump’s Plan To Escort Ships Through Strait Of Hormuz Would Put U.S. Navy Warships In The Crosshairs U.S. Navy's surface combatants would be tasked with sailing repeatedly through a super weapons engagement zone to get ship traffic moving. https://t.co/1n5UnOw8PH
F-15E Deploys Massive Counter‑Drone Arsenal in Epic Fury
USAF F-15E in full counter drone loadout for Epic Fury. 4 X AIM-120, 4X AIM-9, 28 FALCO APKWS laser-guided rockets + the 20mm. Jet is clean aside from that, so likely has nearby tanker support and can get to...
Russia Deploys Cheaper, Faster, More Powerful Cruise Missile
New Russian Air-Launched Cruise Missile Appears In Ukraine The Izdeliye 30 is likely cheaper, faster to produce, and harder-hitting than previous Russian air-launched cruise missiles. https://t.co/sRc5Dz3PJ0
U.S. Deploys Additional F‑35A and F‑15E Fighters
More U.S. Fighter Aircraft Heading To Middle East Additional F-35As and F-15Es will be arriving in the CENTCOM area of responsibility shortly. https://t.co/hkdnWi8tcM
Al Udeid Base Ramp Empty in Satellite Images
Not a single aircraft is visible on the ramp in satellite imagery of Al Udeid Air Base. Absolutely massive installation usually littered with aircraft. I have never seen this before. Eerie to look at.
Iranian Drone Strikes Heighten Pressure on Gulf Arab States
Gulf Arab States Under Pressure As Iranian Attacks Grind On Energy infrastructure and ports around the Gulf are increasingly on the receiving end of Iranian drones and missiles. Live updating: https://t.co/SSyRW1QGcb
Friendly Fire Still Plagues Modern Air Warfare
Tragic Friendly-Fire Incidents Are Nothing New In Modern Air Warfare The loss of three F-15Es to friendly fire today is far from the first time similar combat accidents have happened in the post Cold War era. https://t.co/VdFAhNE7SB