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Israeli strikes on Iran (2024, 2025, etc.)

A combined 60,000+ lbs of high explosives, yeah, I’d say so. I don’t think centrifuges are very hardened against shock.

Hopefully the uranium already in there has been badly contaminated and buried in such a way that it’s difficult and time consuming to recover.
There is only so much shock hardening you can do against anything; but even for warships the shock and blast hardening is more for large blasts at a standoff distance, or small direct hits.

Wouldn't even begin to guess at what kind of blast they get out of a 30,000 lb buster buster, which I'm assuming also does a directed blast with some kind of penetration fire, but probably less about shock hardening then being vapourized.

The blast geeks are drooling to see pictures of the damage though, they learn a lot from real life incidents, and sometimes it's that the only real protection is to not get hit in the first place.
 
Like DJT orange 🍊 or just orange 🍊?
Just Orange.
Because units/entities are classified (even that actually name) colors have been used to represent those assets.
Does SOCOM have anything like CJIRU or is that simply a capability built into the larger existing units?
Yes ;)

There are built in capabilities in all the SFG’s for regional work as well as some more dedicated capabilities in SMU’s and some stand alone USG assets. That’s about as much as is OS attributional.
 
Al Jazeera connects some historical dots ....
... with a few tidbits from IRN state media (archived links, not links to IRN servers)
** - More on the Ghadr-H here:
 
Credible threat of an Iranian strike on Al Udeid Air Base. The entire airspace over Qatar has been emptied and shut down and there's a shelter in place order from the US Embassy.

EDIT: Airlines globally are starting to cancel all flights to the UAE.
 
Still found opportunity to glaze his boss in Moscow.

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Reads exactly like something written by a high schooler in the early Facebook days.
Actually while somewhat basic, he didn’t so badly, and I think is one of his better comments of late.

He isolated Medvedev’s comments from Putin. Giving the opportunity to give Putin an off ramp, while also calling out the threat and pointing out that we in the US have a much bigger stick that is available.

Putin is left with either getting into it with POTUS directly, or cutting Medvedev off at the knees on his constant nuclear Sabre rattling.

Putin probably doesn’t want to push POTUS right now as the easiest thing for POTUS to do is help Ukraine stick something deeper into Russias eye.
 
Credible threat of an Iranian strike on Al Udeid Air Base. The entire airspace over Qatar has been emptied and shut down and there's a shelter in place order from the US Embassy.

EDIT: Airlines globally are starting to cancel all flights to the UAE.
Initial reports (usual caveats apply) of attacks ...
... with a mention in at least one IRN media outlet (archived link, not to IRN server)

Op. Herald of Victory: Iran pounds US military base in Qatar in retaliatory operation​

Monday, 23 June 2025 5:01 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 23 June 2025 5:30 PM ]

Iran launches missiles at an American base in Qatar in response to the US aggression against the Islamic Republic.

Iranian armed forces have launched a missile barrage at American military bases in Qatar in a retaliatory operation a day after Iranian nuclear sites were targeted by US bombers.

In a statement following the successful retaliatory operation, Iranian armed forces said the operation came in response to the “blatant military aggression by the criminal regime of the United States” against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic.

The statement described the US aggression as “a clear violation of international law” and added that under the directive of the Supreme National Security Council and the command of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (PBUH), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), using the sacred code “Ya Aba Abdillah al-Hussain (AS),” launched a powerful and devastating missile strike on the Al Udeid base in Qatar.

This base serves as the headquarters of the US Air Force Command and represents the most strategic asset of the American military in West Asia.

“The message of this decisive action by the sons of the nation in the armed forces to the White House and its allies is clear and direct,” the statement noted, adding that the Islamic Republic of Iran will “never leave any violation of its territorial integrity, sovereignty, or national security unanswered.”

It further said that the American enemy’s aggression has “exposed to all that Zionist malice is simply a continuation of US strategy” while reminding all that in this national defense, American military bases and assets in the region “are not points of strength but critical vulnerabilities — the Achilles’ heel of this warmongering regime.” ...
 
"In a statement following the successful retaliatory operation, Iranian armed forces said the operation came in response to the “blatant military aggression by the criminal regime of the United States” against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic."

Pot calling kettle black.

I am nor sure who is worse - the dictatorship of the Shah or the religious dictatorship of the Ayatollahs.
 
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