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Originally posted by konata88:


To the media, personal costs from rising gas prices are far more important than freeing a country from decades of a tyrannical dictatorship and a proven enemy of the state.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now driving nearly all major decisions — from military strategy to nuclear policy.

Even more alarming, the country’s top leadership is described as increasingly isolated and vulnerable, amid growing fears of deep foreign intelligence penetration.

Our source reveals that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has been wounded and was evacuated to Russia

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Unauthorized drones flew over Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home of a B-52 bomber wing, multiple times the week of March 9, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed.

And at the start of U.S. operations against Iran on Feb. 28, small drones seen flying over a “strategic U.S. installation” were defeated, the head of U.S. Northern Command told lawmakers.

Barksdale announced March 9 it was implementing a “shelter-in-place” order after a drone incursion, and a 2nd Bomb Wing spokesperson confirmed March 20 that “multiple unauthorized incursions” have happened since. NORTHCOM boss Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, meanwhile, briefly mentioned a small drone incursion in written testimony to Congress on March 17 and 19.

“In the early hours of Operation Epic Fury last month, a deployed [flyaway kit of counter-UAS technologies] successfully detected and defeated sUAS operating over a strategic U.S. installation,” Guillot wrote, referring to a deployable new equipment package meant to rapidly respond to drone incursions over military bases in the U.S.

It is unclear if the incidents were part of a series of incursions or related in any way.

A NORTHCOM spokesperson declined to specify which base Guillot was referring to but did say there were multiple incursions and personnel used the flyaway kit’s “jamming protocol.”

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The Barksdale incident is the first publicly reported instance of such incursions over a U.S. bomber base, though there was a similar incident at a British base hosting U.S. bombers in 2024. ABC News reported March 20 that officials there noted “waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line.” The drones had features and behaved in way suggesting they were not operated by hobbyists, the network reported, including “non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links, and resistance to jamming.”
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The “flyaway kit” that downed at least some unmanned systems, according to Guillot’s written testimony, is a new capability NORTHCOM started pursuing last spring. The kit, which can be deoloyed to any installation in need within 24 hours, includes a drone detection system, countermeasures such as jammers, lasers, and kinetic systems, and control software. Officials have not specified the technologies included.

The secrecy—about where the kit is deployed and what specific capabilities it includes—is necessary to ensure its effectiveness, the NORTHCOM spokesperson said.

“Connecting the Flyway Kit to a specific base can potentially illuminate that base’s vulnerabilities to an adversary,” the spokesperson said. “Additionally, by confirming a specific Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) platform, we would potentially give an adversary an advantage in circumventing our C-sUAS capabilities at that location.”
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Originally posted by egregore:
I just love how the media has played this. "The fastest-rising oil and gas prices in history!" "Rising gas prices may wipe out Trump tax refunds!"

To the media, personal costs from rising gas prices are far more important than freeing a country from decades of a tyrannical dictatorship and a proven enemy of the state.

We're in a perpetual, never ending war with these dictators. We have a chance to end it now. But no, that's not worth a transient rise in gas prices.

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Originally posted by konata88:

To the media, personal costs from rising gas prices are far more important than freeing a country from decades of a tyrannical dictatorship and a proven enemy of the state.

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President Donald Trump is planning on taking Kharg soon by force — and nearby oil fields.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Whose ass needs to be held to the fire?
The last 5-years has seen the advent of a series of kinetic counter-drone tools, has the USAF decided that none of them are worth employing?

Drones Incursions Over B-52 Base Spark Concern

[QUOTE]Unauthorized drones flew over Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home of a B-52 bomber wing, multiple times the week of March 9, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

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Lindsey Graham on Kharg Island: "We did Iwo Jima. We can do this."

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Originally posted by chellim1:

I don't see the off-ramp...