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Blunt couldn't be, he was in MI5 and what he betrayed to the Soviets was mostly Ultra intelligence, so he wouldn't know of Market Garden. The other guy was Dutch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Lindemans and sounds more plausible.

Tony had the bizarre idea that the Churchill could have had the same armor as the Tiger 1 from the get go - a project named the "Colvin" by the grate olde ones among other things. "TC" was somewhat opinionated before that was fashionable, to say the least.

Not Arnhem related but the Olde people here will recognize the author: "While apt to be controversial – other recent studies have argued that the British Army was better than many earlier accounts would have us believe – The Noise of Battle is one of the most important recent works on the British Army in the Second World War." StrategyPage

Sorry, didn't remember you are quite challenged understanding stuff. Here, Foreign Policy good enough for you or your confirmation bias will be stronger? https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/18/irans-nuclear-crisis-has-no-military-solution/

You are confusing the noise with the music. The Iranian regime has been careful not to tip the apple cart if they can avoid it, they are opportunistic, willing to use the Arabs to reach their objectives, but martyrdom is not for them.

This is not what I wrote, read carefully. Of course they have a nuclear program, but like Israel, they will not be the first ones to introduce a nuclear weapon to the Middle East unless forced to do so. "We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/9/iran-warns-it-will-change-nuclear-doctrine-if-existence-threatened

But note that was what the Iraqis said, without proof: "After examination, the forensic analysis found no trace of mustard gas nor chemical resistant coating on the munitions. Clearly skeptical of Iraqi allegations of Iranian chemical weapons use as the cause of Iraqi casualties as opposed to Iraq’s own poison gas, the report concluded, “in the absence of conclusive evidence of the weapons used, it could not be determined how the injuries were caused.”

Aaaand here we have today's retarded post. Please do yourself a favor and check Israel's stance on nuclear weapons...

All of that combat experience is irrelevant to conning a ship close to a reef, so no, it's not similar to combat at all, nor does he know if the gender of the captain had any influence, not does the RNZN until the investigation is done. if we use your standard, should you be put on ignore since you bring no relevant combat experience to these forums? thought so...

The Iranians have a fatwa from Khomeinin forbidding them from getting chemical and nuclear weapons, and that still carries some weight: https://fpif.org/ayatollah-khomeini-may-savage-drew-line-nukes/ Note that "Iran has been 3 weeks from getting a nuke" for 20 years too.

What "really" happened:

Thanks, that makes sense

Wondering what happened here. A Russian fighter downs a Russian Su-25:

You are living in the 80s. First of all, Israel has its own satellites: https://www.iai.co.il/space/observation-satellites and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq notable quote: "Ofeq satellites make a half-dozen or so daylight passes per day over Israel and the surrounding countries, whereas non-Israeli observation satellites in Sun-synchronous orbits get one or two passes per day from their lower inclination orbits." Second, this intelligence is evidently enriched with what the US passes to Israel, communications are instantaneous nowadays and targets can be identified automatically through IA (already used in Ukraine) Third, there's no bureaucracy to go through here, the Israelis were expecting an attack and therefore were on their toes. On another matter, BDA on Nevatim, as expected, the Iranian missiles hit mostly nothing:

Impossible: You counted 18 somethings hitting the ground, it's not clear that these were warheads, much less that they hit the base, not to speak hitting something of value in the base. I would also suggest you look for that clue you are missing and check how many HAS there are there... and you may understand why a HYPERSONIC missile doesn't stand a chance. BTW, you know that aircraft may fly away before the attack or be in the air or dispersed elsewhere if an attack is expected? you missed that I didn't write that the aircraft were scrambled when the alert was given. So keep on looking for a clue and since you want to waste time, provide some proof of what those hits destroyed.