What i mean is you place KC135 in gulf state airspace. Hence maybe the reported KC135 losses.
2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]
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-The US is mist of economic catastrophe because their buffoon of a president listened to the advice of the Prime Minister of Israel Jim Bibi Jones.
-Probably the biggest and most humiliating defeat in US military history for a war with ZERO strategic gains for the US.
I think a Israeli's billionaire telling them on live TV that they should surrender their First Amendment Rights is not a great idea.
-Probably the biggest and most humiliating defeat in US military history for a war with ZERO strategic gains for the US.
I think a Israeli's billionaire telling them on live TV that they should surrender their First Amendment Rights is not a great idea.
But Saar, Imperial Air Force is supposed to have so much experience - in this case refueling experience - after destroying defenseless countries over the past 30+ years in the MENA region, so how can they collide, especially since Iraqis on the ground "love" those KC - 135.
As we all know, Iraqis have no reason after these past 23 years to fire on Imperial aircraft. And if anyone did survive the crash (but most likely no one did), I am sure that Iraqis on the ground will give the KC-135 crew a very nice and friendly welcome with hugs and kisses.
US fuel tanker aircraft crashes in Iraq - what we know and don't know
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What we know
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What we know
- A US military KC-135 refuelling aircraft has crashed in western Iraq
- Two aircraft were involved in the incident, the second of which landed safely
- The incident "was not due to hostile or friendly fire", US Central Command says
- Rescue efforts are ongoing
- How many people were onboard and are there any casualties?
- What caused the plane to crash?
- When precisely did the incident happen - and where exactly are rescue operations happening?
The elephant in the room is still the nuclear issue. US can tolerate Iran as they did for the last 50 years but I don't think nukes would be tolerated. Israel could even first strike Iran without US if push come to shove.
This is so much more interesting than it looks, because it's not the nose that sustained damage.
I mean we all know refuelling configuration involve receiver flying behind and below the tanker.
So for top of vertical stabilizer to be hit, the receiver has fly well forward of where it should, basically directly under the tanker, while maintaining close vertical clearance.
And keep in mind these things don't accelerate very fast, at all, it takes quite a bit of deliberate effort and time to advanced until you're directly below the tanker
Or the receiver could have approached the tanker way too fast and yet performed no pitch down as it overshot the tanker, basically violating all approach procedure and don't even have any self preservation instinct
There's a reason this kind of incident has never happened before: it's extremely unlikely.
A missile, on the other hand, usually end up hitting somewhere near the target's tail, just saying.
Also, if both are KC-130, this is how close they have to be flying relative to each other, minimum, for one to clip the top of the other's vertical stabilizer, yeah.
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If israel or the U.S. strike Iran with nuclear weapons, Ukraine gets nuked before it even has a chance to blink. One way or another, the U.S. loses.
everyone is saying US & Israel are trying to assassinate the new Iranian leader, with so many traitors inside Iran, can the new leader survive the assassination? One bomb, the new leader is gone, News already saying he was hunted during a US attack...
The 'aura of invincibility' or 'psychological dominance' is part of deterrence. That's why US and Israel spend so much effort covering up their own losses. And rubbishing Chinese and Russian kit too.
Who is the first guy?
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