Tag: weaponry

‘To our steadfast partner, Israel. YOUR mission is being executed…’ — Pete Hegseth

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

__________

He is reading this speech, so no doubt about what it means. Israel did a MIHOP on 10/7, which killed thousands of Israelis, thus setting up their Deep State to destroy Gaza. The attack on Iran looks like the same ploy: Assault Iran, incur large enough MIHOP losses to justify using nuclear weapons. Obliterate Iran, probably leading to its territory being remapped into several smaller satrapies. That is speculation but surely something to keep in mind. If that strategy fails because Iran hits back even harder, or uses nukes, Israelis will move to Ukraine, which is now their next ‘land without people’ since most Ukrainians have been killed or fled. USA seems to be playing the big brother with no brain, doing whatever it is told to do. I seriously hope I am wrong about this. ABN

Footage Confirms Iranian Drone Strike Took Out U.S. Army’s Most High Value Air Defence Radar From THAAD System

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

Following the release of satellite images indicating that the AN/TPY-2 X-band mobile radar system from the U.S. Army THAAD anti-ballistic missile system had been destroyed in an Iranian drone strike,  an anonymous individual on March 7 posted photos providing confirmation, showing the radar destroyed.

The radar system was stationed at Muwafak Salti Air Base in Jordan.

The destruction of the radar is expected to significantly reduce the utility of THAAD systems to provide defence against Iranian missile attacks.

AN/TPY-2 Radar From THAAD System Destroyed in Engagements with Iranian Forces

The destruction of the AN/TPY-2 follows the successful targeting of multiple missile defence radar systems operated by the U.S. and its strategic partners in the Middle East, including a AN/FPS-132 Block 5 early warning radar located near Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

The radar feeds targeting information to regional air- and missile-defence systems, including THAAD systems in Israel and Jordan. 

Unlike Russian air defence systems such as the S-400, which deploy multiple complementary radar types often reaching half a dozen, Western air defence systems including THAAD rely on just a single radar. Thus without the AN/TPY-2, a THAAD battery cannot independently search for or track targets.

link

FBI measurement of Kirk assassination shot distance 11x too far away, based on analysis — Jon Bray

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

The FBI claims a rifle was fired from 142 yards away at a UVU event.

So we did something no one else has done — we used the physics of light vs. sound across 6 independent cell phone recordings to measure the actual distance to the source.

Light arrives instantly. Sound at 343 m/s. The delay = the distance.

Expected delay at 142 yards: 379ms
Measured delay: 35ms

11x too short.

link

It looks like the sound of the shot was merely sound effect used to make it appear Kirk was killed by a rifle shot from the roof. Imo, Bray’s work on the weapon used to kill Charlie is the best to date. ABN

Ground invasion launched against Iran as thousands of US-backed Kurdish fighters storm border

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

The Kurdish militias, based across the border in Iraq, began the offensive in northwestern Iran on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump on Sunday night spoke with the heads of Kurdish militant groups in Iraq to discuss the situation in Iran. 

The CIA was exploring plans to arm the Kurdish forces with the aim of sparking a popular uprising in Iran, CNN reported Tuesday. 

The Kurdish groups are widely seen as the most well-organized segment of the fragmented Iranian opposition and are believed to have thousands of trained fighters. 

Their entry into the war could pose a significant challenge to the besieged authorities in Tehran and could also risk pulling Iraq further into the conflict.

Asked earlier about Kurdish involvement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters: ‘None of our objectives are premised on the support or the arming of any particular force.

‘So, what other entities may be doing, we’re aware of, but our objectives aren’t centered on that.’ 

link

My guess is the US/Israeli goal is to divide Iran into smaller nations, which will be easier for them to control, while also posing less of a threat to Israel. The Ukraine War has been a similar event in that the ultimate goal is to dismember Russia and divide it into smaller nations. ABN

UPDATE: Most analysts are saying it is not possible for Israel/USA to break up Iran into smaller countries. Or to do that to Russia. But the long-term NATO encroachment against Russia has fundamentally had that goal in mind since the fall of the Soviet Union. We see the same goal for Iran today. I do see how they have failed in Ukraine and are failing in Iran, but their ace card is to use nukes in Iran and see what happens after that vis-a-vis Russia. The elitists doing this are hellbent on world domination and are still going for it now, just as they have been all along. In their minds, there is nothing to stop them from using nukes. Indeed, it seems probable that their strategy is to allow Iran to cause so much damage in Israel and the Gulf states that using nukes will strike many as a good move. At the core of this onslaught lies Jewish Supremacy, a hardheaded self-deceiving fanatical meta-cognitive doctrine couched in intransigent religious terms. Thirty to fifty million Americans have fallen for it along with a majority of Jews, many of whom have deeply infiltrated USA. ABN

Every major US base across the Gulf has been systematically and methodically destroyed

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically.

Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture.

Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.

This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page.

Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.

link

__________

‘This is not going according to plan’. Unless it is; in which case, the real plan is to disrupt the entire region in preparation for dismembering Iran and probably using nukes to do that. The deep plan appears to be break Iran into a number of smaller countries, each with its own ethnic or religious group. This will make the entire region much easier to control. Israel is surely planning to become the hegemon of the region with USA fully backing it. A similar plan is what they have wanted for Russia all along — smash it into numerous smaller states. The deep reason for the Ukraine War is to do that. What are their chances for pulling this off? Probably pretty good. ABN

The Bigger Picture: Iran Conflict – Oil Disruption Hits Key BRICS Members Hard

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

Consider the severe economic body blows to China in the past 14 months.

♦ First blow, the Trump tariffs hit Beijing hardest. ♦ Second blow, the Beijing tentacle on the Panama Canal is severed.  ♦ Third blow, global tariff threats changed the risk dynamic for southeast Asia countries who acted as transnational shippers for China. ♦ Fourth blow, cheap sanctioned oil from Venezuela was cut-off. ♦ Now, the fifth blow; cheap, sanctioned Iranian oil is disrupted.

[SOURCE]

It’s not just a factor of oil flow, but also the price that China will ultimately end up having to pay.  Beijing was buying oil from Venezuela, Iran and Russia at steep discounts because their purchases were skirting western sanctions.

With Iranian oil production now no longer a market option, China will seek to replace their needs with more Russian alternative. However, that diversion means the oil India was purchasing from Russia will come at a higher price, and the refined final product that was exported by India will arrive to the European Union carrying an additional cost.

Simultaneously, Vladimir Putin was asked about Russia’s lack of military support to Iran in response to the U.S. military action, to wit the Russian president noted the technical terms of their joint military agreements did not include Russia’s immediate involvement.  In shorthand, Russia is busy and is not getting involved.

Russia was/is partially dependent on receiving military supplies from Iran in exchange for oil transfers.  The military component is reported to include drones from Iran for use in the Ukraine conflict.  Now that exchange profile is shuttered.

Taking Iran’s malign influence off the geopolitical chessboard is beginning to surface in major challenges to the BRICS assembly (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).  Russia, China and India are impacted directly.

The BRICS nations were skirting western oil sanctions by trading the commodity outside the petrodollar structure.  However, President Trump now controls the flow of oil from Venezuela, and his administration controls the currency in which it is sold.

With Iranian oil removed from the non-petro supply chain, the only remaining non-petro oil producer is Russia – who is simultaneously hit with a loss in military hardware support.  China may end up as a larger oil customer to Russia, but at what price and in what payment structure.

With global oil supplies in a state of flux, and with the USA in control of the oil flow from Venezuela, North America is certainly in the best position for minimal energy disruption.

Asia is heavily dependent on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, and the majority of Europe has already shut themselves off from Russian oil production, putting themselves in a position of dependency to the global markets.  The short-term ramifications of this oil disruption hit China, Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe particularly hard.

link

This article probably describes how the Trump admin is thinking. ABN

Gulf states could run out of anti-drone rockets in four days as Iranian strikes continue across five countries

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

Gulf states facing an Iranian drone blitz may only have enough anti-drone defence missiles to last four days.

In a tactic that has surprised the US and its allies, Iran has responded to attempts to force regime change by raining down missiles and drones on its neighbours.

By spreading strikes across more than five countries at once and sustaining over 2,500 drones per day, Tehran is forcing its adversaries to divide their defences.

A source told the Daily Mail: ‘At the current rates the supplies could run out within four days. 

‘The interceptors are being used at an unprecedented speed.’

The vast majority of Iranian projectiles have been blocked, but only a few need to breach the defences of Gulf nations to change the perception of the conflict.

That was brought home last night as footage of a thunderous explosion outside the US consulate in Dubai was shared online. 

Shahed drones favoured by Iran can be produced more cheaply than the state-of-the-art defensive systems purchased by the UAE, Bahrain and other states from US manufacturers. 

A single Iranian drone can cost as little as £26,000 to produce, researchers say, while intercepting it can cost anywhere up to £3million.

link

Iran’s strategy of ‘flooding the zone’ with drones and missiles seems beyond obvious. Moreover, there are articles from years ago on their underground missile storage sites scattered across the country. So, USA and Israel had to know about this. Then they must have prepared for it. If so, these stories about insufficient anti-drone and anti-missile ordnance must be a ruse. If USA and Israel knew and did not prepare for this, that is too stupid for words. I do not know what the story is, but weapons supplies are major strategic factors, so this cannot be attributed to confusion or the fog of war. If the purported lack of anti-drones is a strategic ruse on the part of USA and Israel, I wonder what purpose it serves. It may be that, USA and Israel want Iran to cause massive destruction throughout the region, thus setting up Israel, and maybe USA, to use nukes against Iran. That is probably what they are doing. It’s a sort of contrived or concealed false-flag against themselves to win public approval for nuking Iran. Using nukes against Iran will send a strong warning to Russia, China and the world. ABN

Iran’s Hidden Missile Reserves

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

Iran’s underground and hidden missile reserves are a cornerstone of its military strategy, designed to survive and retaliate against large-scale attacks. The country has developed extensive “missile cities”—vast underground complexes excavated deep into mountains, some reaching 500 meters below ground—to store and launch ballistic missiles and drones. These facilities, scattered across provinces like Lorestan, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, and Kermanshah, house long-range missiles such as the Shahab-3, Sejil, and Khorramshahr, with ranges up to 2,000 km (1,242 miles).

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled one of its largest underground missile cities on Tuesday, March 25. | IRNA/IRNA

  • Key sites include:
  • Khorramabad (Lorestan): A major storage and launch site for surface-to-surface and cruise missiles.
  • Tabriz (East Azerbaijan): Iran’s second-largest missile silo complex, capable of launching missiles toward Eastern Europe.
  • Isfahan: Home to the largest missile assembly and production site, producing components and missiles like the Shahab-3.
  • Kermanshah: Hosts the Bakhtaran and Panj Pelleh bases, strategically positioned to target Israel and Gulf states.

Iran has also constructed underground naval missile bases in southern Iran and the Gulf, with one unveiled in 2025. These facilities are often accessed through concealed entrances and protected by multiple layers of bunkers and berms. Despite their resilience, analysts highlight a critical vulnerability: many of these tunnels store munitions in open caverns without blast doors or separated revetments, making them susceptible to catastrophic chain reactions if breached.

While Israel and the U.S. have targeted these sites in recent airstrikes—damaging facilities like the Tabriz base—Iran continues to maintain a large stockpile of over 3,000 ballistic missiles, with about 2,000 capable of reaching neighboring countries. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF) uses these hidden reserves as part of a “war of salvos” strategy, aiming to overwhelm enemy missile defenses and increase the cost of military operations.

Iranian ballistic missiles with cluster warheads

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

The video shows footage of an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on March 1, 2026, where cluster warheads reportedly split into up to 80 submunitions, a capability IDF officials described as unprecedented for maximizing civilian area coverage.

Iran’s missile program, originating in the 1980s, has advanced indigenously, bolstered by over 233,000 annual engineering graduates—third globally—enabling self-reliant innovations despite sanctions and assassinations.

The attacks involving these advanced cluster-capable missiles have primarily targeted central Israel, with confirmed impacts and damage in:

  • Petah Tikva (a major city east of Tel Aviv, hit by a missile with fragmentation/cluster elements, causing shrapnel damage across residential areas but no direct fatalities reported in that specific strike).
  • Tel Aviv area and suburbs (multiple barrages triggered sirens nationwide, with penetrations and damage to buildings/apartments).
  • Beit Shemesh (west of Jerusalem; one of the worst incidents involved a direct or near-direct hit killing around 9 people and injuring dozens, with cluster submunitions noted in some waves).
  • Broader central Israel regions, including areas near Jerusalem suburbs, Ramat Gan (near Tel Aviv), and scattered impacts from shrapnel/submunitions.

U.S. Confirms Loss of Three F-15E Fighters During Attacks on Iran: Claims of Friendly Fire in Doubt

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

The United States Central Command has confirmed that three U.S. Air Force F-15E long range fighters were shot down over Kuwait on March 1, following multiple unconfirmed repots of shootdowns, and the subsequent release of footage showing one of the aircraft falling in flames in an uncontrolled spiral over Kuwaiti skies.

“At 11:03 p.m. ET, March 1, three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epic Fury went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident… During active combat—that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones — the U.S. Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defences,” the Command reported.

Claims that the aircraft were shot down by Kuwaiti forces, rather than by hostile air defences in Iran or Iraq, having been bought to serious question. 

F-15E and F-15E Crashing Over Kuwait

With Kuwait employing exclusively NATO standard air defence systems and fighter aircraft, modern identification friend or foe systems leave only a minimal possibility of shooting down friendly fighter aircraft, fuelling speculation that claims that the aircraft were shot down by friendly forces may be an attempt to deny Iran credit for what would be one of the most signifiant air defence operations in recent decades

link

~ ABN ~ Leave a comment

Iran’s ballistic missile retaliation against Israel on March 2, 2026, following U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, with reports confirming at least one death and widespread damage in Tel Aviv from direct hits.

Recent footage from Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the U.S. Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain (Manama) over the past 24-48 hours, verified by multiple outlets including NYT, BBC, and CNN. Shows explosions and fires at the site, matching satellite imagery and official reports of drone/missile hits.