Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran … War

[Carth]

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. . earmarked at least 13 sites across the UK for potential munitions and “energetics” factories.

The two words I highlighted lead me to guess at a build completion date of around 2048 . . . way too late, everything will be different by then.
We'll be making explosives while the rest of the world are using Lasers

Originally Posted by Carth

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The two words I highlighted lead me to guess at a build completion date of around 2048 . . . way too late, everything will be different by then.
We'll be making explosives while the rest of the world are using Lasers

Actually we already have lasers …

https://news.sky.com/story/dragonfir...rones-13051553

Dragonfire has been in development for 10 years but should see its first deployment on a ship next year.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I think they're already in trouble, the UAE has sent 30 times defending itself than it cost Iran to attack them, they are running out of weapons and so are other Arab states, hence donnie has demanded US arms manufacturers quadruple their output.

Quite surprised this never gained any traction, apparently in the negotiations that were abruptly cut short by America attacking, Oman foreign minister & negotiator is claiming Iran agreed to everything, no nuclear material stockpiling, IAEA monitoring, US spot checks, no weapons grade enriched uranium the lot, seems war war was preferable to jaw jaw though

The Middle East is learning the lesson Ukraine now knows well. Meanwhile Trump, who is genuinely just not very clever, hasn’t understood the economics of high-intensity missile defence and still thinks America can just finance and build unlimited Patriot interceptors to fix the problem he and his fellow idiots have caused.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Chris

Meanwhile Trump, who is genuinely just not very clever, hasn’t understood the economics of high-intensity missile defence and still thinks America can just finance and build unlimited Patriot interceptors to fix the problem he and his fellow idiots have caused.

US's high debt levels cannot help maters either.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Chris

Actually we already have lasers …

https://news.sky.com/story/dragonfir...rones-13051553

Dragonfire has been in development for 10 years but should see its first deployment on a ship next year.

On a ship, what are we thinking, it should be strapped to the head of a fricken shark

Then we should anchor off the coast of any nation that displeases us and demand the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

On a ship, what are we thinking, it should be strapped to the head of a fricken shark

Originally Posted by Chris

Then we should anchor off the coast of any nation that displeases us and demand the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS

I see el gov has placed an aircraft carrier on 5 days’ readiness, with absolutely definitely no inkling at all that this would be misunderstood (and misreported) by the media as ZOMG WE’RE SENDING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO IRAN and conveniently kill off the questions from the press and public who were *finally* starting to realise what successive governments have been doing to the Royal Navy since the 1990s.

FWIW HMS Prince of Wales was already on 14 days’ notice and was already being prepared for deployment because of a forthcoming NATO exercise. And there’s scant chance of us having any reason to send a floating airbase to the eastern Mediterranean anyway, what with us owning a massive land-based one on an island out that way called Cyprus.

It’s also functionally impossible for us to deploy an aircraft carrier outside of a NATO exercise or operation with the RN in its current state thanks to the RN having insufficient ships to escort it. So no, HMS PoW is not going anywhere near a combat zone unless Starmer can persuade allies its in their interests to go along with it.

[papa smurf]

Iran war latest: Iran has chosen new supreme leader after killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in US-Israel strike


https://news.sky.com/story/iran-late...-news-13509565


code name Target

i wonder how long this one will live

[thenry]

Find shame.

[Carth]

Could end up being a long running game show* "I'm the Ayatollah get me out of here"


*Obviously hosted by the extremely irritating Ant & Dec

[Sephiroth]

In 1979, wise Brits were gathered outside the Iranian embassy in Kensington. They were singing “You can stick your Ayatollah up your arse”. Just the words tell you what the tune was. (Singing ay yai yippee yippie ay).

We knew then what we know now. No fuzz, no grey .
, except the Ayatollah’s beard.

[thenry]

Top Democratic senators in the United States have called for an investigation into the strike against a girls’ school in southern Iran, saying that the Pentagon must “provide clear answers” about the incident that killed at least 170 people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/...school-in-iran

SkyNews, Tom Cheshire, smoke appears from the area Infront of the school before what is described by experts a tomahawk missile strikes, weaponry only the US have in the area. Israel don't know what was happening in the area, US blames Iran, Iran blames US.

Good news - the war’s nearly over…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz0g...0362b9f07#post

On the progress of the war: "I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they've got no air force. Their missiles are down to a scatter. Their drones are being blown up all over the place, including their manufacturing of drones. If you look, they have nothing left. There's nothing left in a military sense."

On original timeline for operation: "We're very far ahead of schedule... I don't know, it depends. Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else's."

On Iranian missiles: "They've shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it's going to be the end of that country... If they do anything bad, that would [be] the end of Iran and you'd never hear the name again."

On the Strait of Hormuz: US is "thinking about taking it over" and could do "a lot".

On if he has a preferred new Iranian leader in mind: "I don't want to say anything about that but yeah, I do."

[jem]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Good news - the war’s nearly over…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz0g...0362b9f07#post

Which has all the hallmarks of a “we don’t actually know what we are doing, we have no exit strategy, we have no fixed goal, we have no medium to long term plan......”

Israel, who are basically running this and have, astonishingly, managed to co-opt the US as a ‘junior partner’, will be happy once they have decided that Iran’s military plus their ability to fund and control other militias, has been sufficiently degraded as to no longer be a viable threat. Once that’s done both Israel and the US will walk away and claim victory.

Forget any rubbish about ‘liberating the Iranian people’, if the regime survives and is even more brutal to its own people, but is less than a threat to Israel, so be it - they simply won’t care!

And, of course in ten years or so, when Iran has managed to rebuild its forces, well Trump and Netanyahu will be long gone and not their problem.