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Well, decimated means "reduced by one tenth" so I guess technically he was probably correct.
A10 Warthog that was part of the search and rescue operation was also shot down, the pilot managing to eject over the Gulf and parachute to safety in Kuwait, and two Blackhawk helicopters also part of the same S&R operation also got shot up. A bit inconvenient for Trump who said that the US had destroyed all of Iran's air defence capability.
we're gonna get so many movies out of this one, i can already tell
...Donald Trump told...
So it was not true then.
decimated
In the literal sense, that would mean a 10% reduction of fighting capacity. Nothing to sneeze at, but still pretty capable of ~~fighting~~ defending, I would say.
So a few airplanes were lost and/or damaged. I read some statistics of the Vietnam war that thousands of planes were lost. It's part of being in a war, especially when you are the agressor.
harrowing incidents
Tell that to the Iranian civilians.
And an A10... and two helicopters were hit ... in one day.
The most competent leadership was forced out in favor of sycophants. Combined with military contractor corruption that surrounds the military budget, and it's no wonder this looks worse than in the early 2000s
Even homelander had the self awareness to realize he was surrounded by sycophants.
The most competent leadership was forced out in favor of sycophants.
One of the few good things Trump and co did.
And an A10
That's a given anywhere but early 2000s Afghanistan. Even today they've got the stingers left over by USA.
A10s design mission was far more dire.
Why are we doing rescue missions with Blackhawk helicopters and A-10s in a missile-rich environment?
They are sitting ducks, very slow aircraft. I don't have a lot of military knowledge but it seems unwise to me.
They said they've destroyed half of Irans air defenses... hmmm, wonder what that really means. I've read that Iran has extensive underground manufacturing and weapon stores, they've been doing that since the 1970s. They will be as ready as anyone can be.
Extra! Extra!
Big orange pedophile lies every single time he opens his mouth!
Depressingly, this still seems to be news to a lot of people.
I think we knew this after his TV show!
So only 1 in 10 middle launchers was blown up.
Trump is to stupid to know the truth
Ok, so can we try to figure out why his team around him are letting this happen. Can we figure out what the other side of the house is doing? Can we assume that Americans are butt fucking stupid to allow and not campaign better to have stop his SECOND term!
You vote for a house party you get a fucking mess.
But yeah trump is the stupid one! Maybe we boil it down to the Christmas GOD wants this to be the way as Devin intervention would have happend from someones God by now.
Or possibly no one gives a fuck until it effects your daily routine on longing on and dropping out.
americans (even democrat voters) couldn't bring themselves to vote for a qualified woman, they'd rather have a convicted rapist for president
it'll take decades to rebuilt the country, millions of them will go hungry
and if they stay true to themselves, they won't learn anything from anything
I wouldn't be surprised to see them blame middle-eastern people for trump's second term
One of the 15E pilots is still missing. Now, the Orange Pedo Rapist Felon is announcing a Holy War, which is copying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Likud Party war cry. Fuck them all.
They have since found the second aviator
decimate(v.)
c. 1600, "to select by lot and put to death every tenth man," from Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare "the removal or destruction of one-tenth," from decem "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten").
So they've taken out 10% of Iran's capacity. Seems reasonable they should still score some hits.
*and an F35.
Well, to play idiot’s advocate…
“Decimated” means to reduce by a factor of 10.
So if they had capability of 1,000, now they have capability of 100.
And it only takes one person with one rocket to shoot down an aircraft.
Well, not to be a pedantic dick, but... Actually, it means to reduce by 1/10. So if they had a capability of 1000, now they have the capability of 900.
That said, it's been long-used to describe the near-total destruction of a thing; that strict meaning is pretty dated.
So is Trump :D
one of the big things we’re already seeing is the cost asymmetry – F-15E original price was $31M and costs roughly $19K per flight hour – a Shahad-136 drone costs $20K total
i'm pretty conflicted. it's like watching two good people told to fight another for the sake of entertainment.
It boggles my mind that the Trump admin is at least smart enough to use 1985 machines so we don't expose modern weapons capabilities to China or Russia, but at the same time that's likely the only way Iran could take down expensive planes with human lives on board.
Both the US and Israel are using F-35s as well. One even got hit by a heat seeking missile.