An A-10 Thunderbolt and F-15E Strike Eagles were damaged in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on a U.S. air base in Jordan.
  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    From what I heard the repair techs can pick up the screws and stuff off the tarmac and by adding just a few spare parts we can end up with even more fighter jets than used to be there. So Irans strike actually increased the size of our Air force. Thats how hard we are winning.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I know right. We still love you too Canada, so we’re going to send trump up there to help you make some government decisions. Call it a sleepover. We’ll drop him off alone at the border tonight, if you can come pick him up and then later tell us when he’s done there, thatd work fine.

      After he’s done fixing your territory we are going to lend him to mexico, cuba, and then greenland. If need be, I hear the native Hawaiians and native alaskans also want a turn.

  • sanitation@lemmy.todayOP
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    1 day ago

    not just multiple! allegedly - they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes and 1 A-10 in a single strike on the ground.

    And Houthis just did a literal blietzkrieg TODAY - and took several islands, huge territory and an important port - and no news outlets covering this.

    This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military. how can you control the seas and let thta happen?

    and guess what - red sea - closed. our fleet will have to sail back around Afrika now - I kid you not

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Its also the equal area Africa, so those dumb americans will have to go round ~20% more land, which the US didnt vote for!

      /s for those who overrate their cognitive ability

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes

      At $88M+ each. Also doesn’t help that we’ve curbed our capacity to produce this kind of aircraft over the last decade. Every lost F-15 will take years to replace, if we can replace them at all.

      This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military.

      Idk, man. It’s very easy to say this was an intelligence failure. But what if we had these bases with the implicit consent (or, at least, apathy) of those around them? What if there wasn’t any practical defense against an armed uprising of this scale and sophistication?

      I do think westerners have this sense of invincibility, such that the only explanation for a defeat is that they misplayed a winning hand. But we fell into that trap in Korea and then in Vietnam and then again in Afghanistan and Iraq. We spend decade after decade fighting these enormous populations of anti-colonial insurgents and losing time after time.

      Maybe this isn’t some kind of tactical failure. Maybe we just shouldn’t have picked another losing fight against a bunch of home grown freedom fighters Islamic Extremists when they’d just finished kicking our asses five years ago.

    • mrmisses@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Who is Houthis and who did they take the islands from? And are they populated islands?

    • pycorax@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The article says that it’s lightly damaged but serviceable though? Where’s your source for the F-15s being damaged?

  • BC_viper@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I definitely trust irans count more then anything that comes out of the orange walking fucks piss filled mouth.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s funny how Trump looks up to Putin, and how they are equally stupid.
    They could hold a press conference together, where they both stupidly persist with the claim that everything is going according to plan. While neither is making any progress. 🤡