Great OpSec. Giving away our military plans? The Iranians won’t see it coming.
Who needs signal leaks when the commander and chief just tweets it
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
Iran will be taken by complete surprise, since they didn’t expect it.
Just a couple of helicopters with some special forces guys who go in at night, and in the morning Iran’s leadership will surrender, apologize and build a Trump Hotel in Tehran.I’m sure of it!
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
For sure, it’s not like America has a long history of fucking up amphibious landings or helicopter based airborne operations. Grenada had like 1500 dudes armed with sks defending it and they only lost like 10 helicopters. Surely it won’t be worse than that…right?
To be fair, there are also examples where a daring helicopter raid lead to an end of the war -
Like Mogadishu.Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.
Ain’t nobody getting me to fly in something that relies on a “Jesus nut”.
Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn’t have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that’s significantly younger than the airframe… What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it’s not an osprey?
Fuck it. Send in a squadron of BUFF. We’ve never lost any of those.
/s
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
– Harry Reasoner
helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Nowadays helicopter pilots seem to just be riding the copium that is autorotation.
i love my sks. always fond of its history.
Same, my yugo is what I used to use to train friends who are new to rifles. Just wish 7.62 was cheap and easy to find as it used to be.
nice. mine is a chinese version. but yeah. cleaned up well. i still have a ton of 762 but dont hit the range often.
I was really lucky finding mine, got it from a dude that bought a sealed barrel full of them in the early 90s. It took like a gallon of mineral spirits to clean all the cosmoline off and out of it.
I still have a couple ammo cans full of 7.62, but it’s getting harder to find for a decent price, so I’m kind of hesitant to fire them off willy nilly. It used to be my primary caliber, so I have a mini-30 that i usually save it for.
I’ve been putting 5.56 together for a while now, but the ar just isn’t my favorite platform so ive been lacking the motivation to finish it. Plus, I don’t really get to hit the range very often either. Most of the outdoor ones around me are full of right winged chuds, and they make you sign up with the nra to become a member.
clubs here are the same too. it’s annoying. i won’t join the nra for obvious reasons and the indoor ranges are often right wing nuts too.
Same. There’s one not overtly right winged indoor range near me, but I dislike indoor ranges in general. This one is particularly lax when it comes to gun safety, and you can tell by the plethora of bullet holes in the ceiling and lane dividers. Last time I went I got barrel swept like three times just walking by the store counter.
I unfortunately live in one of the most conservative states in the union, and people are just idiots when it comes to firearms down here.
I told you it was always about oil . It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
I mean… Israeli colonial interests and American imperialist interest are kinda the same thing.
Most people at least those vocal on lemmy claims that it’s only about Israel colonial interests. It is about both
I disagree. This is spin with no possibility of pay off. It’s still all about Israel weakening Iran and annexing Lebanon.
And the obscene ammount of blackmail generated by Epstein and Maxwell of course.
Why the blackmail did not make Trump go back completely to full scale war on Iran or the allow isrsel to officially annex the whole west bank and abolish the PA?
Yet
Why waiting?
I wouldn’t say waiting more like slow walking… You can only use kompromat once, but you can threaten to use it forever.
Because Israel is evil not stupid? Their plan is working great.
Israel also believed that they could easily take Iran out. They was stupid
Lol no, that’s just what they told the orange diatraction and the goons. This is a slow and methodical land grab.
I guess it can be a bit confusing considering Israel is basically a vassal state of the US, but at times it can be hard to tell who is the tiger and whose is holding it by the tail.
I told you it was always about oil
More broadly, it is about western imperial expansion. Control of the Red Sea. Control of the Suez Canal. The ability to cut China and Russia off from international markets (specifically, trade with India and West Africa).
Oil was a big part of it, but not the whole.
It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
They’re joined at the hip.
Who was arguing with you?
Obviously they’re doing this to protect the world from Iran using nuclear weapons. I cannot think of any other reason. Just like Venezuela.
deleted by creator
It’s amazing that Iran has gone from a pariah state to something of an underdog. The regime was on the nose and the Demented Don arrived diverted attention to him. A master stroke launching Operation Epstein Fury!
I don’t want to hear about ‘Russia bad’ EVER AGAIN!!!
Both. Both are bad
The US being bad does not change anything about Russia.
If your brother murders someone it does not change anything about the fact that your dad raped someone.
Ffs, I forgot this is social media and the average intelligence is room temperature. Of course, Russia is bad. The point is that there is no fucking outrage when the US declares they’re just going to take an island. In case of Russia’s invasion we had 24/7 rolling coverage and breaking news banners on all news sites
The point is that there is no fucking outrage when the US declares they’re just going to take an island.
Sorry, what?
Well, nobody believes that they will do it. TACO
Where is the outrage?
Are you not outraged?
It’s such an incredibly childish way of thinking. These people grew up with “Russia bad, Murica good” propaganda, had their minor awakening as they realized the US weren’t in fact the heroes they’d been taught they were, but never actually bothered to unpack the underlying assumption that the world is made of heroes and villains. So instead of figuring out that actually all forms of imperialism suck, they just swapped the heroes and villains in the fairytale because it’s more comforting to live in a world that has unambiguous good guys and bad guys. They want to have a team that they can cheer for and screw it if reality doesn’t agree.
Then get Russia to stop being bad.
Russia bad. The united snakes bad
Nations bad.
Agreed.
He’s going to get a lot of service members killed to gain nothing
naa. he’ll gain profit. his cronies will gain profit. this is what war is always about
Not at all. Their lives will delay any consequences Trump may face for raping all those children.
Incoming diesel at $10 a gallon at the pump!
Good luck with that one. Even if they do go through with this threat, have fun holding it.
Reverse Gallipoli.
Unopposed landing, then, a week or so later, 2,000 shahed drones a day untill I guess something like a quarter of the 82nd airborne ceases to exist.
Ahhh. 😌 Another fine example of the United States liberating a country. Long live democracy!!
OK, when this was expected in the first few days, it was not as stupid. Still stupid, but now they’ve given them months to prepare. This has always been the most obvious target for an invasion. There’s no way it isn’t a trap at this point. If they did it fast then at least they wouldn’t be dug in. Now, a lot more people are going to die for nothing. It doesn’t move any closer to ending the conflict.
I’m tired boss.
Oh look another round of stock manipulation for profit.
Someone in the Whitehouse making bets!?
What a joke.
enough to distract with operation epstein fury again.
Watching Trump is like watching someone thrash around in quick sand; every time he makes a move, he ends up sinking even deeper.
He’s a bottom dweller. He’s just getting closer to his natural habitat. Too bad he’ll just drag everyone with him.
