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The Pentagon’s New Superweapon Is Finally Online

The Pentagon’s New Superweapon Is Finally Online

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Aaron Day
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The U.S. just activated a weapons system that existed only in Pentagon PowerPoints until now: the “sensor-shooter” network.

Satellites spot a missile launcher and instantly beam coordinates to the nearest F-35 which fires without ever seeing the target. It’s basically Call of Duty killstreaks but real, global, and unstoppable.

As Iran tries to move a launcher, U.S. satellites see it glowing like a matchstick from space, then boom…gone. A entire pillar of Iran’s military power is evaporating in real time.

Source: Cappy Army

Iran’s missile arsenal is getting wiped out; they opened with about 350 ballistic missiles on Day 1, but by Day 5, they were down to roughly 40.

Drone launches were the same story: nearly 300 the first day, over 500 the second, then collapsing to around 45 by Day 5.

Cruise missiles barely appeared at all, roughly 25 total across the week before the graph flatlined.

With U.S. and Israeli strikes smashing launchers, drone hubs, and underground storage, Iran is running out of toys while the shelves are being blown up behind them. Source:

@TheIranWatcher

With up to 75% of Iranian ballistic missile launchers taken out by the U.S. and Israel in the first week of the war, Iran is already making concessions. Saying it won’t target “neighbors” unless it is hit first.

This is great news if Trump is seeking to modify the regime rather than change it entirely, which is always easier to do. While many remain skeptical about how long the war may continue as Iran maintains its “death to America” rhetoric, thousands of Kurdish forces entering from Iraq to take on the regime could change everything.

It’s very difficult to significantly change a nation’s regime without some form of boots-on-the-ground pressure, and leveraging Kurdish forces could prove to be a winning alternative to a costly proposal of having U.S. troops on the ground in Iran. Strikes have already targeted the regime’s military outposts near the Iraq border so this could happen.

Meanwhile…

Qatar Airways just announced it will resume flights from London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Frankfurt and Bangkok to Doha tomorrow.

It comes just after Emirates Airlines announced it will resume operations from and to Dubai International Airport despite a drone strike earlier in the day.

Simply put, they’re keeping track of how the big picture is changing instead of simply focusing on the raw data of when the last strike was carried out.

Source: Al Jazeera, Al Mayadeen

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