Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

[StudMccool]

Holy shit, just about the coolest thing ive seen today, who here knew we had ROTARY MISSILE LAUNCHERS ON THE B-52?

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while the Iranians have cold war airplanes, little disparity there lmao

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Now let's see the US Army's new gun.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=u1Cq-CzuBQs

Hehe awesome.

I'm guessing 30mm will win unless Rhinmettal's 40mm offering is amazing.

A Hezbollah FPV drone barely missed a rescue helicopter in which an IDF soldier killed by another FPV drone earlier today was being loaded. Somehow nobody was injured from the hit.


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Edit: GoPro POV

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Spoiler: Context

Shortly after 9:00 AM today, Hezbollah terrorists launched an explosive FPV Drone toward tanks from the 77th "Saar me-Golan" Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade operating in the village of A-Taybeh in southern Lebanon. The Shiite village is located about 4 km from the border.

The armored company from Battalion 77 had been operating in recent days together with soldiers from Battalion 12 of the Golani Brigade and had to carry out repairs on a tank in an open area near buildings. The drone struck the force: Sergeant Idan Fooks, 19, was killed, and six soldiers were wounded, four of them seriously.

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Later, terrorists launched two additional drones toward the rescue forces and toward an IAF helicopter that arrived to evacuate the casualties. One UAV was intercepted, and the second struck near the forces. There were no additional casualties.

Holy shiiiiitt. One mediocre Hezzbollah fpv pilot was literally the only thing standing in the way of Israel having the single biggest loss of life for the IDF in YEARS.

I'm surprised you haven't mocked them for wearing American camouflague.

What I find so interesting is the fact they still use slimline handguards on their MP5s which H&K phased out in 1978.

My Turkish clone MP5 (to be purchased with my extra paycheck this summer) has the slimline handguards

UAE's CAR 816 will likely be Irans next generation weapon if they can patch things up with the Gulf States post regime collapse.

Nah I can almost promise you it'll be an overpriced piece of H&K shit because some Iranian boomer thinks German = BEST GUNS EVER

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Trump's holding a Situation Room meeting with top officials tomorrow. They'll probably continue the blockade until all the Iranian oil wells blow up on Wednesday.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

Hehe awesome.

I'm guessing 30mm will win unless Rhinmettal's 40mm offering is amazing.

Isnt there a new anti drone gun kit that basically wires up to a carbine with a detection scope and auto fires once it detects the drone?

Apparently you hold down the trigger and the scope decides when to let it fire when your angle would hit the drone it acquired. Taking away the whole pesky hard to hit problem.

Russians have had luck with birdshot with anti personal drones as well.

 

[Total Annihilation]

Iran is going to cancel summer vacation!

Doesn't the EU have something like 4 weeks remaining of aviation fuel before they run out and/or buy fuel from Russian/USA?
It's funny how it doesn't effect us here in 'MURICA!

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

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Trump's holding a Situation Room meeting with top officials tomorrow. They'll probably continue the blockade until all the Iranian oil wells blow up on Wednesday.

I was thinking that this weekend just didn't feel like a resumption of bombing type of weekend. Trump had the Correspondent's Dinner to plan for, and Iran is only just starting to publicly admit to how fucked their economy is.
Maybe next weekend, assuming Congress doesn't cuck him on the War Powers Act, but I doubt they will. No one really wants to pull the trigger on testing its constitutionality.
Or maybe Trump cucks and agrees to that ridiculous "End the war before actually getting any guarantees that prompted the war" proposal lol.

 

[mindlessobserver]

King Charles is visiting next week. Considering Charles' devout Muslim faith, we wont be killing his fellow believers until after he leaves.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

I didn't know Linkara was involved in Iran negotiations.

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[Kalergi]

I was thinking that this weekend just didn't feel like a resumption of bombing type of weekend. Trump had the Correspondent's Dinner to plan for, and Iran is only just starting to publicly admit to how fucked their economy is.
Maybe next weekend, assuming Congress doesn't cuck him on the War Powers Act, but I doubt they will. No one really wants to pull the trigger on testing its constitutionality.
Or maybe Trump cucks and agrees to that ridiculous "End the war before actually getting any guarantees that prompted the war" proposal lol.

I suspect The Plan at this point is to just let the ceasefire expire, keep the blockade going, and then open up again if/when Iran attempts to get its izzat levels back up by trying to board one of the commercial ships by the GCC port or firing off some more drones/missiles at their industrial facilities.

He may also end up just telling the Israelis to go ahead and eliminate all the other IRGC officers they've been tracking while leaving Pezeshkian and Aragchi alone, since either that or TACOing are the only real options left to bring this to a close relatively quickly. The Bush carrier group can take over for the Lincoln as far as the blockade, although the Ford is probably going to have to rotate out at some point as well, even after being docked for repairs.

 

[Ghostse]

Now let's see the US Army's new gun.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=u1Cq-CzuBQs

XM25 is back, baby!

Only negatives I heard about the XM25 was it was a little heavy, you had to log around batteries for the range finder, and the PTB were worse than jews with a pennies when it came to giving you ammo due to how utterly fucked ammo procurement was.
But it utterly raped haji trying to shoot you from compounds.

>Things like OICW and such fail for decades due to being impractical.
>Turd worlders invent a new tech (roto drones) claiming to change warfare forevor.
>Above failed tech becomes the perfect solution and is finally perfected.

Assuming this works out it will be the most American weapon invention story imaginable.

I think pretty much the US response to any enemy advances in the next century
"Oh yeah, there was a DARPA program that made something for that and then was canceled due to budget cuts. Lets jus dig that out"

see also: the A-10

Holy shiiiiitt. One mediocre Hezzbollah fpv pilot was literally the only thing standing in the way of Israel having the single biggest loss of life for the IDF in YEARS.

Speculation I heard on that was the drone got EW'd from the helo, and that near miss was it just following that last vecotor.

Russians have had luck with birdshot with anti personal drones as well.

All you really need is a good skeet shooter.

 

[Gurney Halleck]

I'm still waiting for the resident leftoid economic experts to explain why California making Californians pay more for gas by default than what Trump has 'caused' gas to spike to by 'causing' the greatest energy crisis of all time is actually a good thing.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

This is apparently the alternate "deal" that Iran tried ramming through ten minutes after Trump canceled Jared and Steve's flight yesterday. The same one that Trump immediately threw in the trash because it still wasn't close to good enough.
Axios is such a fucking meme of a website.

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[Thomas Talus]

Only negatives I heard about the XM25 was it was a little heavy, you had to log around batteries for the range finder, and the PTB were worse than jews with a pennies when it came to giving you ammo due to how utterly fucked ammo procurement was.

Weren't there problems with the plastic body and heat?

 

[Jose Beaner Luna]

I didn't know Linkara was involved in Iran negotiations.
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Unironically an improvement over Pakistan.

 

[penava]

I'm still waiting for the resident leftoid economic experts to explain why California making Californians pay more for gas by default than what Trump has 'caused' gas to spike to by 'causing' the greatest energy crisis of all time is actually a good thing.

Californians will never acknowledge that California policy is what causes California gas prices. The state has its own oil reserves, its own refineries, it was the top crude oil producer for most of the early 20th century, and it still manages to have higher gas prices than the literal island state with no oil production and a single refinery. I am convinced that Californian retardation is actively pushing up gas prices in the adjacent states.

 

[Ghostse]

Weren't there problems with the plastic body and heat?

Not any worse than the M-4/M-16 per any of the guys I talked to who got to carry and/or fire it

Maybe there were problems if you fed clip after clip of ammo through it, but troops got very limited ammo so i don't think even if you blew through your entire supply it'd overheat the gun.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Russians have had luck with birdshot with anti personal drones as well.

Civvies on both sides have been pulling this for some time. One clip that sticks in my mind is some Russian dude running out in his PJ's from an apartment building and standing side-by-side in his front yard with uniformed soldiers in full kit. When another drone is called out he refuses their yelling to go inside, begs a couple shells to reload with and fires on their mark. Right out in the open.

Credit where due. That shit takes balls the size of Saturn even if your family is literally 20 yards behind you.

 

[Stoneheart]

Nah I can almost promise you it'll be an overpriced piece of H&K shit because some Iranian boomer thinks German = BEST GUNS EVER

their elite units still use their license made G3s, so maybe they will restart making those. way superior to anything nato has right now.

 

[Jean des Esseintes]

This is apparently the alternate "deal" that Iran tried ramming through ten minutes after Trump canceled Jared and Steve's flight yesterday. The same one that Trump immediately threw in the trash because it still wasn't close to good enough.
Axios is such a fucking meme of a website.
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Hard to believe people are still falling for this, though traders have fallen for more obvious bullshit before of course, I'm betting the repeated fake news stories around peace talks are being put out more to trick trading algorithms than to sway the average joe. Wouldn't surprise me if someone at Axios or otherwise involved was swing trading on these. WTI futures are back to touching $96.30 after getting down to $95 on that news, I think it's headed for over $100 again given the lack of any progress, seems very unlikely that there'll be a deal or a return to close to typical oil prices without another round of strikes given how uppity the current crop of Iranians who appear to be in charge continue to be.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

I wonder how many voters seduced by the headline promise of "America First" could have anticipated that putting America first involved starting yet another war in the middle east at the behest of Israel.

But at least they're safe from the definitely likely menace of an Iranian nuclear warhead detonating above their house. Higher prices for everything is a small price to pay.

You do know that North Korea has an ICBM capable of hitting the US mainland right? And Iran's current missile launchers can hit all of Europe....right?

Hard to believe people are still falling for this, though traders have fallen for more obvious bullshit before of course, I'm betting the repeated fake news stories around peace talks are being put out more to trick trading algorithms than to sway the average joe. Wouldn't surprise me if someone at Axios or otherwise involved was swing trading on these. WTI futures are back to touching $96.30 after getting down to $95 on that news, I think it's headed for over $100 again given the lack of any progress, seems very unlikely that there'll be a deal or a return to close to typical oil prices without another round of strikes given how uppity the current crop of Iranians who appear to be in charge continue to be.

Trump is right, the USA has all the cards. If we keep this blockade up for a few more weeks we could crash the Iranian economy to the point that the people just rise up. It wouldn't make a difference to us. Remember with Maduro (yea I know it's our back yard but still) we fucked around for like 3 months before getting him.