Iran Super Thread- Merged

[PrairieFella]

Reported blue on blue. Pilots safe. 3x US F-15E

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2026-03-01/iran-latest?

Will the loss of 3 Strike Eagles make any sort of noticeable difference in regards to SEAD assets in the region? Strike Eagles are what the Wild Weasels fly, right?

 

[ytz]

Will the loss of 3 Strike Eagles make any sort of noticeable difference in regards to SEAD assets in the region? Strike Eagles are what the Wild Weasels fly, right?

They don't fly with the Jamners. Growlers do that. They were either bombing targets or they were hunting launchers.

 

[KevinB]

The way I took it was, given the high altitude release point and the fact that he seemed to be talking about a cargo of 20 submunitions weighing 2.5 kg apiece, then it seemed unlikely that 8 km was the blast radius.

It seemed more likely that he was effectively talking about scattering 20 unguided light to medium mortar rounds over a circle with an 8 km radius. That would be a 200 km2 circle with 20 mortar bombs in it. Militarily ineffective I would think.

Blast radius being in the above, being the area of dispersion.

20 submunitions in a 8km wide circle.

It is a terror weapon, nothing more. Some of variants have a fragmentation payload, others an incendiary.

 

[ytz]

Wow. Openly admitting Israel is leading them around by the nose.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2027953804881137896

 

[brihard]

Will the loss of 3 Strike Eagles make any sort of noticeable difference in regards to SEAD assets in the region? Strike Eagles are what the Wild Weasels fly, right?

Lots of video from these ones.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028391827519525311

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028345253405872170

Some hairy moments for the crews when they hit the ground and locals didn’t initially know who they were.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028404758390743297

 

[Czech_pivo]

Lots of video from these ones.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028391827519525311

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028345253405872170

Some hairy moments for the crews when they hit the ground and locals didn’t initially know who they were.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028404758390743297

The one pilot's hand doesn't look to be in a good way.

 

[brihard]

The one pilot's hand doesn't look to be in a good way.

His moustache is worse.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

His moustache is worse.

He got shot down because of his poor grooming standards - scraggy beard, unkempt hair etc. <s>

 

[Kirkhill]

Given that this is the guy running the show.....

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028345531798364571

Even if he loses interest today and quits, people have a nasty tendencing of continuing to live their lives and adapt. The unintended consequences are always more interesting.

 

[Kirkhill]

Blast radius being in the above, being the area of dispersion.

20 submunitions in a 8km wide circle.

It is a terror weapon, nothing more. Some of variants have a fragmentation payload, others an incendiary.

Agree on the principle but a disagreement on a point of pedantry. He said a blast radius of 8 km or 5 miles. The distance is from the centre of the explosion or the dispersion to the edge.

8 km wide would mean a diameter of 8 km or 5 miles.

The difference is a factor of 4.

If 8 km is the radius then the area is about 200 km2 or 200 grid squares.
If 8 km is the diameter then the area is about 50 km2 or 50 grid squares.

Either way, 20 mortar rounds in 50 or 200 grid squares, they are going to need to pump an awful lot of rockets into that target area to have any kind of militarily useful effect.