An Iranian missile and drone attack on March 27 struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, wounding multiple United States service members and damaging several aircraft, including an E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft and aerial
  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper said launches were down by more than 90 percent since the start of the conflict on Feb. 28.

    Okay, how about impact rates? Have those gone down 90 percent too? Or are they perhaps achieving more with less, hmmm? I don’t know math is hard someone help me make sense of basic inferences. blob-no-thoughts

    • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I love when they use the 90% thing. 90% of the Navy is destroyed, but Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and as of today it looks like the Bab-el-Mandeb. 90% of the Air Force is destroyed, but they can freely launch a consistent volume of missiles into any country in the region and the US doesn’t have air supremacy. The leadership is almost entirely dead, but someone is still coordinating a multinational military campaign that’s successfully crashing the global economy.

      Missile launches being down 90% but staying consistent and penetrating air defenses of every country around them just says that they’re rationing missiles and demonstrating their capability to continue striking. They don’t need to launch a thousand missiles a day and it would be a huge logistical effort to do so, probably provoking an Afghanistan-style coalition invasion from the shock of the attack. With a fraction of the initial volume they can maintain all of their strategic objectives and keep non-involved countries hesitant to join the US.

      Who invades a country with something called Missile Cities? That’s the most Warhammer 40k-ass thing I can name from any modern military and they have at least five of them geologically hardened against the specific munitions the US is using. This ain’t anime motherfucker you’re gonna die.

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It’s intentionally stupid pablum designed to be uncritically reprinted by the stenographers of power known as Western media. That’ll get redigested and printed by the whole host of LLM driven ‘news’ sites, and only headlines will get read by most people anyway. The general population will walk away with a ‘vibe’ that it’s true or going well or whatever, and it will take some time before the cognitive dissonance between seeing the same stupid cycle play out over and over manages to undermine it’s effectiveness.

        It is embarrassing how illiterate Americans are.