2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]

[gwel]

Correct me if I am wrong, but IR missiles have a relative short time to acquire target as their seeker needed to be cooled so you need a man to control it to turn it on at the right time.

That is true for older missiles with one-time-use chemical cooling cartridges or batteries, and old IR seeker tech that needed very low temperatures.
Now there is technology which can operate with lower differential temperatures, and can operate continuously with very low power input and without the need for huge cooling capacity.

 

[tokenanalyst]

Everyone must sacrifice for the Chosen people, die for israel.


Israel's ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter,



This is the only off-ramp they can use.

So let me get this straight, Israel is getting butt handed by Hezbollah and the plan is to go Iran in a ground invasion to fight people that are literally begging for them to come because they want to cause them mass casualties. This is the definition of panicking.

 

[tokenanalyst]

I think the biggest thing that is plaguing Western foreign policy and Western militaries is the fantasy trap, the constant state of daydreaming.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Correct me if I am wrong, but IR missiles have a relative short time to acquire target as their seeker needed to be cooled so you need a man to control it to turn it on at the right time. So the drone will need decent optics that can search/track an aircraft with APWKS or Apache 23mm gun, and the drone need to be able to be controlled. Not so simple as strapping a R-73/Igla ontop of it.

But I do think even Iran should be capable of creating a larger drone as escort duty and will return to base.

there are CO2 cooled expendable IR sensors but there's also thermoelectric cooled for permanent cooling.

 

[neutralobserver]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031335765662187603

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031405907255472287

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031404444047335780

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031382734048809133

 

[mack8]

New batch of sat images showing hits to various american bases in ME.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031386517998883267

 

[AlexYe]

So let me get this straight, Israel is getting butt handed by Hezbollah and the plan is to go Iran in a ground invasion to fight people that are literally begging for them to come because they want to cause them mass casualties. This is the definition of panicking.

Prob not a full ground invasion but more of special forces operation, either way crazy

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031405907255472287

The Messaging is definitely changing.

Israels Hebrew tv spox: We are trying to do maximum damage as we can before we have to stop.

 

[zlixOS]

Prob not a full ground invasion but more of special forces operation, either way crazy



The Messaging is definitely changing.

Israels Hebrew tv spox: We are trying to do maximum damage as we can before we have to stop.

They somehow still don't understand that Iran can continue these levels of strikes *forever*. FOREVER. Thus, if America wants Iran to capitulate, it will be on Iran's terms. Which is why Trump will likely want to just declare victory and leave.

 

[AlexYe]

They somehow still don't understand that Iran can continue these levels of strikes *forever*. FOREVER. Thus, if America wants Iran to capitulate, it will be on Iran's terms. Which is why Trump will likely want to just declare victory and leave.

Yep it already happened

IranNow

A high-ranking Iranian political source revealed: The special envoy of the US President, Witkoff, today, Tuesday, March 9, directly sent a proposal twice to Iran regarding setting a date to stop the conflicts, but Iranian officials did not respond to this proposal.
After not receiving a response from Tehran, the American side turned to some European countries and several regional countries to convey this proposal or mediate on it.
Al Jazeera's reporter in Tehran reported: Witkoff sought to contact Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the Foreign Minister, about a ceasefire, but Araghchi did not respond to him.

 

[neutralobserver]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031415121348530224