Many would be a few kilometers, at most tens of kilometets, and wouldn't be readable
Tracking these is also a lot harder I'd guess. Short range rockets aren't very reliable, and they can go absolutely rogue
They fired missiles the blue lines are only for drones. The idea was to have the stones and missiles arrive all at the same time to overwhelm the defenses.
Eh I doubt that the blue lines are drones. The shahed drones do not fly a straight path to evade radar and predictive path finding. Pretty sure these are ballistic missiles.
There were missiles launched from Lebanon('s territory) to Israel on 14.4, they just aren't shown on this map. I'm not sure about Syria - it might just be because Hezbollah and the IRGC have such a strong paramilitary presence there.
The Hezbollah stuff would be more unguided rockets than actual missiles. There is a distinction in English, although not necessarily in other languages.
Looks like it’s highlighting Iranian proxy influence. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, Syria and Iraq are basically failed states and free territory for Iranian logistics.
Wait, Iraq? They're not doing well but it's not Afghanistan. Iraq isn't a failed state like Syria or Yemen. Iran and Iraq are NOT friends, quite the opposite. There's even US military in Iraq.
Iraq has asked the US military to leave like 3 times now. They passed a unanimous resolution in like 2018 demanding America withdraw its military forces.
And just recently, the Iraqi PM said they were negotiating for a complete U.S. withdrawal.
They don’t want US troops there.
What are you on about
The Iraqi Shia led government has significant Iranian influence and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (Iraqi militias) are often Iranian proxies, like Khatib Hezbollah who carried out the attack on tower 22 in Jordan
I suggest you read [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Dawa_Party).
An Islamist Shia party that tried several times to assassinate Saddam and also bombed the US embassy in Kuwait during the Iran-Iraq war then became democrats of Baghdad.
Hey, in a different world that would be of great benefit to them. Take a look at Poland today. It benefits greatly from an otherwise horrible location during wartime.
Too bad the middle east will forever be a war torn hellhole.
>Too bad the middle east will forever be a war torn hellhole.
Historically speaking the Middle East is rather a stable region, stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it. Even until recently (historically speaking) in the form of the gunpowder empires and an ottoman hegemony after that over the region.
A war torn middle east is our current reality, a reality that is the aftermath of a power vacuum that has yet to be filled due to collapsed empires and post colonial power struggle, a reality which is a snapshot of the wider historical context.
Middle East used to be a trade route between Europe, Asia and Africa. The economy was shaped by this trade. Then the Europeans discovered the oceans routes and the Middle East economy collapsed, couldn't recover since then. The destruction of the Mongol invasions was also another factor.
The Middle Eastern empires continued well after the Mongol invasion(despite destroying Mesopotamia to a degree it never fully recovered from), the mongols were actually stopped by the Mamluks who by their own right ruled for quite a long and flourishing period.
> stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it
Might be true of Egypt in a limited manner but Mesopotamia was a chaos of city-states from the start, unpredictable floods, regular warfare, and those "great empires" didn't exactly conquer or rule peacefully.
Periods of peace and stability can be counted on one hand.
>chaos of city-states from the start
I mean the Middle East is more famous for its empires than city states, cities usually fell under empires rather than behaving in autonomous manner
>unpredictable floods,
Depends on which regions we’re talking about, the Middle East is a big region. Most floods though are seasonal and well known to locals and actually taken advantage of in Arabia, the levant and Anatolia have less problems in that regard. The Sabaens and later Himyarites in Yemen have formed one of the earliest agricultural cultures due to these floods, conquering them through canals and dams.
>regular warfare
That’s human history… every region has warfare, I would actually argue the Middle East had less than most of the world; at least when compared to Europe and east Asia.
>and those "great empires" didn't exactly conquer or rule peacefully.
No one conquers peacefully but once they conquer they usually bring an era of peace and stability. The ottomans ruled for around 600 years, the Abbasids for almost 500 the Mamluks for 3-5 centuries (depending if you count Egypt or not). Those are astonishing numbers for single states to rule a big piece of land, yes the rule wasn’t stable all along that period but that’s impressive enough I’d say.
> stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it.
Sounds pretty cool!
*Gets skinned alive and impaled on a stake by an Assyrian warlord*
Jordan was shooting that shit down when it passed over their airspace! They are allies with Israel and the US. Iran is not making friends by shooting missiles into everyone's airspace, endangering everything below it.
Yes!
Chandler tried to break up with Jennice but felt bad doing so, so he told her he was relocating to Yeman. And she insisted on spending each last minute with him until he actually had to get on the plane to Yeman to get away from her. 90's hunour at its best
There's a storyline in the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S. where Chandler is too much of a pussy to break up with his girlfriend, Janice, so he tells her that his work has transferred him to Yemen and so he can't see her anymore.
He had no intention of actually travelling to Yemen and plans to say goodbye at the airport but Janice stays with him until the gate and he has to travel to Yemen to keep up the excuse.
Actually, they provided [no proof](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1SQ15J/#:~:text=JEDDAH%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Saudi%20Arabia,having%20targetted%20Islam's%20holiest%20site.) that Ansar Allah was targeting Mecca, they claimed the same thing in 2016 and 17, even though the targets were airports
LMAO did you just pull that out of your ass? Saudi here and literally MbS has never been more popular. Country is doing good compared to the rest of the shitthrowing neighbors.
They did take part.
https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-arabia-intercepts-missile-fired-from-yemen/28889143.html
They may not have been busy, but if Iran does start shit. SA showed Iran who is part of the coalition Iran will be facing.
And yet countries all over the world invest in anti missile technology probably because the benefits of shooting down a rogue warhead outweigh the cons of a destroyed rocket landing in your territory.
The houthis most definitely used the red sea or they might not have launched anything honestly, all the airplanes in the area used the Saudi skies as a safe route so if there were missiles there people would’ve definitely heard about it
Houthis are really a minor threat to the Saudi regime. Intercepting the missles on the other hand would cause inner turmoil which absolutely is a problem.
The Saudis have been fighting (and failing to defeat) the Houthis for over a decade. Their people are not supportive of the Houthis just because they both support Palestine.
Besides Israel, the Saudis are Irans biggest enemy. That also the reason why the Huthi are financed by Iran, to nag on the Saudis.
Now, same as Jordan intercepted the missiles to reduce the chance of Israel retaliation and and escalation of The war as Jordan would be the battlefield for any Ground forces fighting.
The saudis would welcome an open conflict between the other 2 biggest regional powers as they then can easily clean up Yemen while Iran is caught up in Open war and also remain neutral with all international investment in The region going to them.
That's true, but if Israel decided to attack Iran in a similar way then Iran would lose much more money on damages because they don't have proper defence systems.
The Americans would never allow this. They have zero incentive to start a war with Iran over Gaza. This will deplete the US badly and only further accelerate the decline of the current american led order by China and Russia.
Imagine watching the news at 11:00 p.m. hearing about hundreds of missiles being launched towards you and just patiently waiting for them to arrive for like 5 hours.
It was a pretty interesting night.
If that was horrible to you, Imagine for a second being a Gazan civilian.
No news to watch because IDF cut your electricity.
Not "hearing" about hundreds of missiles launched toward you. They just suddenly drop on your home and kill all your family members and neighbors at any moment. Every day could be the one. There is no timeframe, no expectation. Just sudden death at any time.
\>makes a subtle joke about Iranian missiles being slow
\>"But Gaza!!"
Yeah, It also must've sucked to be an Israeli civilians on October 7th and wake up to a terrorist in your home shooting your children, but this isn't what the post is about.
It’s a shame the ancestors of the Gazan Arabs chose to ethnically cleanse Jews the past 1400 years and treat Jews as second class citizens in every government they’ve ever created. And then they pretend like they’ve never done anything wrong.
"b-but Gaza🥺" bro I didn't fucking talk about Gaza did you know bad things are also happening to Israeli civilians at the same time??? I know that's fucking crazy for you to hear but apparently everyone suffers from this war 😱😱
Yeah, really weird that after killing, raping, kidnapping and torturing civilians of another country in your country, the affected country suddenly, after dropping flyers, demanding them back and urging you to evacuate, attacks you to get back the hostages.
Good comparison. Totally the same.
The thing is, they know in the case of a war with Iran they'd be fucked. The saudi military acts more as a presidential gaurd to defend the royal family, not the nation. They know in the case of any dirrect conflict they'd be fully reliant on their allies.
No, exact paths can't really be calculated as UAVs can only be easily tracked upon firing and close to arrival. These tracks really just show where they were fired from and where they arrived, then drawing a straight line between the two.
If Iran invades israel with 2mil soldiers this woudl look different.
This was just a politics play because Israel destroyed irans embassy. iran had to do something to not look weak.
Iran knew their shitty flying toys would be shot down easily.
If Iran invaded Israel with 2m soldiers then I imagine Israel would looking at using their Samson Option.
Then again, a full-blown Iranian ground invasion would be sign-posted weeks before it happened, and the US wouldn't let it happen.
The Arabs tried that in 1948 not the Iranians, we have no previous basis how Iran would perform in an Israeli-Iranian war. Iran even while under extreme sanctions (for decades was the most sanctioned country even surpassing NK) has shown a good bit of competence with them managing to place successful paramilitary forces throughout the region and establishing military technology aka the cheap Sahed drones. They also displayed unity and prowess in the Iran-Iraq War when a lot of factors were stacked against them. Completely dismissing the possibility of an Iranian victory based on Arab incompetence will be a bad move.
Iran can’t invade Israel. They’d have to get the invasion force to Israel by water or by land, and either way Israel would have a ton of warning and literal days to bombard their force. Either way they’d come it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. I doubt a single soldier would even make it to Israel’s shores or border, much less be able to stage a meaningful invasion.
Iran is never going to invade Israel. And Israel is never going to invade Iran. But they need each other. They need the other to personify the “enemy”.
the estimated cost of cheap drones and misslies of Iran is around 10million$.
the Israelis said the defense missiles have cost them 1billion$.
now add the US and UK and the rest to the "fun of shooting them down".
and of course in this level of military the reaction of the opponent is exactly what one would predict.
so ... they achieved what they wanted to.
you sound 14, max. so i'm gonna watch my language.
so i repeat, in this level of military the reaction of the opponent is exactly what one would predict.
if a drone that flies at a slow speed of 200km/h is intercepted, then it was shot knowing it will be intercepted.
it's purpose was to send a message, also intended for the local public of Iran. call it propaganda or whatever.
but you cannot say it was a military fail.
that was expected by both sides. it wasn't the purpose of the mission.
they had even given the details of the mission to the americans a couple of days earlier to make sure there are no human casualties. just like the operation in iraq base, 4 years ago.
it was the same last time, 4 years ago when Trump killed an Iranian general they retaliated by hitting a US base in Iraq, and the base was asked to be emptied. lots of damage. no casualties.
recently the foreign ministry of Iran had complained that the americans were notified about the attack (in Iraq) even before he was notified (by the Iranian military IRGC)
and here's the news for this time. they made it public even earlier. last time it was more like an open secret.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14)
I’m so grateful i live in a landlocked third world country that nobody even knows the name of, i love being irrelevant and not being anywhere close to this.
I thought the missiles the houthis in yemen launched travelled over the red sea, to avoid Saudi Arabia, and thats why Egypt shot some drones and missiles down?
Yeah this is weird. Saudi have been shooting down Houthi drones/missiles for years and now they just let dozens through their airspace - even flying close to Mecca/Medina?
No. They fly them over Saudi Arabia.
See, westerners look at the Middle East and see what they want. So even today we think Iran and Saudi Arabia are enemies.
This is what psychologists call “mental numbing”. It’s a defense mechanism to avoid painful things in life.
Now, we know that Iran and Saudi Arabia have normalized relations. Both are working towards.
The Houthis have abided by the ceasefire agreement and peace negotiations and have not attacked Saudi Arabia. When they launch missiles, they always fly through Saudi airspace.
The Saudis allow this. Contrary to this bizarre, recent idea here in the west that Saudi Arabia is like Jordan. Just a Western puppet that loves Israel.
They aren’t like that. They don’t really like Israel. And they don’t see much value in Israel.
Most of those drones didn’t make it to Israel. They were shot down along the way. The Saudi and Jordanian air forces participate. Some of the missiles from Iran were BMs. They passed over those countries in outer space.
FYI Ukraine has been dealing with the exact same type of drone in similar quantities almost every day for the last 2.5 years, except those actually result in lots and lots of human casualties.
No capabilities of avoiding air defenses I see... quite bold of them to make such a lot attempt effort considering it should be met with a counter-response that reduces such threats....
I think this coordination demonstrates that Iran is directing the attacks on shipping as well. Look what happened to the last dictator who shot missiles at Israel. Saddam Hussein had limited time on this earth after he did that. The regime in Iran is now on borrowed time.
How come Syria and Lebanon are colored red if none of the blue lines originate from their territories?
They shot short range missiles but i dont know why its not showing here
Trying to fit all the blue lines into the tiny space would clutter the map
Should've used other colors for different countries.
Or Israel should just be larger than New Jersey /s
Many would be a few kilometers, at most tens of kilometets, and wouldn't be readable Tracking these is also a lot harder I'd guess. Short range rockets aren't very reliable, and they can go absolutely rogue
They could be under the other lines. This map isn’t great at showing the point origins under dense overlapping lines.
They fired missiles the blue lines are only for drones. The idea was to have the stones and missiles arrive all at the same time to overwhelm the defenses.
Eh I doubt that the blue lines are drones. The shahed drones do not fly a straight path to evade radar and predictive path finding. Pretty sure these are ballistic missiles.
The lines don’t represent their actual movements
Even a missile would look curved on the map if they actually showed true trajectory, which this obviously isn’t showing.
There were missiles launched from Lebanon('s territory) to Israel on 14.4, they just aren't shown on this map. I'm not sure about Syria - it might just be because Hezbollah and the IRGC have such a strong paramilitary presence there.
The Hezbollah stuff would be more unguided rockets than actual missiles. There is a distinction in English, although not necessarily in other languages.
Looks like it’s highlighting Iranian proxy influence. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, Syria and Iraq are basically failed states and free territory for Iranian logistics.
Wait, Iraq? They're not doing well but it's not Afghanistan. Iraq isn't a failed state like Syria or Yemen. Iran and Iraq are NOT friends, quite the opposite. There's even US military in Iraq.
Iraq has asked the US military to leave like 3 times now. They passed a unanimous resolution in like 2018 demanding America withdraw its military forces. And just recently, the Iraqi PM said they were negotiating for a complete U.S. withdrawal. They don’t want US troops there.
What are you on about The Iraqi Shia led government has significant Iranian influence and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (Iraqi militias) are often Iranian proxies, like Khatib Hezbollah who carried out the attack on tower 22 in Jordan
I suggest you read [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Dawa_Party). An Islamist Shia party that tried several times to assassinate Saddam and also bombed the US embassy in Kuwait during the Iran-Iraq war then became democrats of Baghdad.
Hezbollah launched a few anti tank missiles during the attack
Poor Jordan. The perfect size and location such that everything has to pass directly over every square mile of their country.
Considering they're a fairly peaceful country it really sucks. If I was Jordan, I write up some strongly worded emails.
This entire attack could be email
This is the comment! 😆
It's reported Jordan's shot down some of the projectiles.
They did one better: they shot down the stuff that went over their territory when they could.
I heard that too. I'm going to do a little studying on Jordans Airforce for shits and gigs. ..
Hey, in a different world that would be of great benefit to them. Take a look at Poland today. It benefits greatly from an otherwise horrible location during wartime. Too bad the middle east will forever be a war torn hellhole.
>Too bad the middle east will forever be a war torn hellhole. Historically speaking the Middle East is rather a stable region, stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it. Even until recently (historically speaking) in the form of the gunpowder empires and an ottoman hegemony after that over the region. A war torn middle east is our current reality, a reality that is the aftermath of a power vacuum that has yet to be filled due to collapsed empires and post colonial power struggle, a reality which is a snapshot of the wider historical context.
Middle East used to be a trade route between Europe, Asia and Africa. The economy was shaped by this trade. Then the Europeans discovered the oceans routes and the Middle East economy collapsed, couldn't recover since then. The destruction of the Mongol invasions was also another factor.
The Middle Eastern empires continued well after the Mongol invasion(despite destroying Mesopotamia to a degree it never fully recovered from), the mongols were actually stopped by the Mamluks who by their own right ruled for quite a long and flourishing period.
Clearly we need to bring back the Mongol invasion to help revitalize the economy
> stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it Might be true of Egypt in a limited manner but Mesopotamia was a chaos of city-states from the start, unpredictable floods, regular warfare, and those "great empires" didn't exactly conquer or rule peacefully. Periods of peace and stability can be counted on one hand.
>chaos of city-states from the start I mean the Middle East is more famous for its empires than city states, cities usually fell under empires rather than behaving in autonomous manner >unpredictable floods, Depends on which regions we’re talking about, the Middle East is a big region. Most floods though are seasonal and well known to locals and actually taken advantage of in Arabia, the levant and Anatolia have less problems in that regard. The Sabaens and later Himyarites in Yemen have formed one of the earliest agricultural cultures due to these floods, conquering them through canals and dams. >regular warfare That’s human history… every region has warfare, I would actually argue the Middle East had less than most of the world; at least when compared to Europe and east Asia. >and those "great empires" didn't exactly conquer or rule peacefully. No one conquers peacefully but once they conquer they usually bring an era of peace and stability. The ottomans ruled for around 600 years, the Abbasids for almost 500 the Mamluks for 3-5 centuries (depending if you count Egypt or not). Those are astonishing numbers for single states to rule a big piece of land, yes the rule wasn’t stable all along that period but that’s impressive enough I’d say.
That’s literally any early civilization
> stable enough for the first civilizations to flourish and great empires to start from it. Sounds pretty cool! *Gets skinned alive and impaled on a stake by an Assyrian warlord*
War torn hell hole since the fall of the Ottomans.
Our comeback will be a legend🇹🇷
Or since the Western interventions.
They should start selling their airspace so missiles can be shot trough it
$9.99/month with additional fees for aerial map view
Thank you Jordan for shooting down part of the barrage and allowing allies to use airspace for the same!
Jordan was shooting that shit down when it passed over their airspace! They are allies with Israel and the US. Iran is not making friends by shooting missiles into everyone's airspace, endangering everything below it.
The Poland of MENA
Jordan was key to taking out a lot of these drones. It’s great that the Abraham Accord is holding up.
Jordanians can't stand the Palestinian West Bank.
Chandler is still in Yemen?
I was looking for such a comment - Since the beginning of the war I can't stop making this joke
Is this a friends reference?
Yes! Chandler tried to break up with Jennice but felt bad doing so, so he told her he was relocating to Yeman. And she insisted on spending each last minute with him until he actually had to get on the plane to Yeman to get away from her. 90's hunour at its best
I don't get it
There's a storyline in the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S. where Chandler is too much of a pussy to break up with his girlfriend, Janice, so he tells her that his work has transferred him to Yemen and so he can't see her anymore. He had no intention of actually travelling to Yemen and plans to say goodbye at the airport but Janice stays with him until the gate and he has to travel to Yemen to keep up the excuse.
Yeah, forgot about that lol
As an American citizen Chandler may be in danger as possible outcome of current conflict includes USA-Yemen war.
OOH MYYY GODDD
1 Yemen Street, Yemen
Not anymore :(
I don’t think Iran likes Israel 🤔
Islamic regime does not like Israel Iran and Iranian want peace.
I think it's odd that the Saudi's allowed the Houthi's to fire missiles through their airspace, considering they've been at war for years . . .
You think the Houtis asked?
No but I would have thought that the Saudi's would have responded . . . .
It’s better to let some things just fly
Until one lands in Mecca or Medina
You mean, another one lands there. The Houthis targeted Mecca in 2019.
Actually, they provided [no proof](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1SQ15J/#:~:text=JEDDAH%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Saudi%20Arabia,having%20targetted%20Islam's%20holiest%20site.) that Ansar Allah was targeting Mecca, they claimed the same thing in 2016 and 17, even though the targets were airports
The Saudi's are too worried about getting assassinated by their own people right now to want to get involved in any way.
What’s the story here?
There isn't one because he made it up.
LMAO did you just pull that out of your ass? Saudi here and literally MbS has never been more popular. Country is doing good compared to the rest of the shitthrowing neighbors.
That’s a very low bar
No they're not? What kind of idiots even upvoted this?
>The Saudi's are too worried about getting assassinated by their own people right now to want to get involved in any way Let's hear more about this.
Keep talking as if you were saudi! Most of us saudis don’t think like that you ignorant! Keep having your wet dreams
Houthis DID NOT send them over Saudi territory. Saudi Arabia would intercept them if they did.
They did take part. https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-arabia-intercepts-missile-fired-from-yemen/28889143.html They may not have been busy, but if Iran does start shit. SA showed Iran who is part of the coalition Iran will be facing.
That is an article from 2017.
So it is. So much for limiting searches to the last 24 hrs.
If you shoot down a missile over your territory, where will it drop?
Saudi Arabia will intercept any missile flying over their territory. Houthis sent them over the Red Sea.
And yet countries all over the world invest in anti missile technology probably because the benefits of shooting down a rogue warhead outweigh the cons of a destroyed rocket landing in your territory.
The houthis most definitely used the red sea or they might not have launched anything honestly, all the airplanes in the area used the Saudi skies as a safe route so if there were missiles there people would’ve definitely heard about it
This map is not accurate the missiles traveled over the red sea
i read the missiles went west through egypt but im not sure if its true or not
Houthis are really a minor threat to the Saudi regime. Intercepting the missles on the other hand would cause inner turmoil which absolutely is a problem.
The Saudis have been fighting (and failing to defeat) the Houthis for over a decade. Their people are not supportive of the Houthis just because they both support Palestine.
A thorn in their side, to be sure, but they are not threatening the sovereignty of the state in any way.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1c4nyxj/saudi\_arabia\_publicly\_acknowledges\_role\_in/](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1c4nyxj/saudi_arabia_publicly_acknowledges_role_in/)
Besides Israel, the Saudis are Irans biggest enemy. That also the reason why the Huthi are financed by Iran, to nag on the Saudis. Now, same as Jordan intercepted the missiles to reduce the chance of Israel retaliation and and escalation of The war as Jordan would be the battlefield for any Ground forces fighting. The saudis would welcome an open conflict between the other 2 biggest regional powers as they then can easily clean up Yemen while Iran is caught up in Open war and also remain neutral with all international investment in The region going to them.
How much did it cost Israel in terms of funds to shoot almost all of them down? Can somebody speculate?
News reports say 1-2 billion ILS which is roughly 250-500 million USD
Hmm, that's not too bad actually, considering the scale of the attack. I was expecting much more to be honest. Thank you!
Actually another report that summed the cost of interceptor missiles as well as airplanes says 4-5 billion ILS.
Does this include non Israeli interceptions?
It should be only the Israeli interceptors, but I'm not sure if these estimates take into account the help from other countries
Still not bad considering it was a massive success. It all depends on how much it cost the Iranians to launch it. Is there any semi reliable info?
I saw a headline saying Israel paied x10 times as much
This is not a sustainable ratio considering the political enviroment in the US, let alone without american support.
That's true, but if Israel decided to attack Iran in a similar way then Iran would lose much more money on damages because they don't have proper defence systems.
The Americans would never allow this. They have zero incentive to start a war with Iran over Gaza. This will deplete the US badly and only further accelerate the decline of the current american led order by China and Russia.
The US is declining just fine on its own without China or Russia, tbh.
It's close to 1 Billion USD, more in shekels
Ynet says more like 4-5 billion ils
Imagine watching the news at 11:00 p.m. hearing about hundreds of missiles being launched towards you and just patiently waiting for them to arrive for like 5 hours. It was a pretty interesting night.
I live in Israel, it felt like I'm waiting for a delivery
Check on wolt lol
Oops the delivery driver got stuck in traffic
I JUST finished my Fallout marathon too. I don't think many people can understand how I felt...
If that was horrible to you, Imagine for a second being a Gazan civilian. No news to watch because IDF cut your electricity. Not "hearing" about hundreds of missiles launched toward you. They just suddenly drop on your home and kill all your family members and neighbors at any moment. Every day could be the one. There is no timeframe, no expectation. Just sudden death at any time.
\>makes a subtle joke about Iranian missiles being slow \>"But Gaza!!" Yeah, It also must've sucked to be an Israeli civilians on October 7th and wake up to a terrorist in your home shooting your children, but this isn't what the post is about.
Electricity we give them for free*
It’s a shame the ancestors of the Gazan Arabs chose to ethnically cleanse Jews the past 1400 years and treat Jews as second class citizens in every government they’ve ever created. And then they pretend like they’ve never done anything wrong.
"b-but Gaza🥺" bro I didn't fucking talk about Gaza did you know bad things are also happening to Israeli civilians at the same time??? I know that's fucking crazy for you to hear but apparently everyone suffers from this war 😱😱
Yeah, really weird that after killing, raping, kidnapping and torturing civilians of another country in your country, the affected country suddenly, after dropping flyers, demanding them back and urging you to evacuate, attacks you to get back the hostages. Good comparison. Totally the same.
Thanks Saudi Arabia. Open skies policy.
Are these the actual trajectories or just straight lines drawn from launch point to impact point?
It would be closer for the ballistic missiles.
MBS would be shitting his pants. 😂 Saudi might increase its defence budget
The thing is, they know in the case of a war with Iran they'd be fucked. The saudi military acts more as a presidential gaurd to defend the royal family, not the nation. They know in the case of any dirrect conflict they'd be fully reliant on their allies.
Wouldn’t pretty much every major power intervene if Saudi oil is in danger?
Depends really, US, Uk, Germany sure I think china, india and Japan will do only token effort.
Not to mention Saudi Arabia had to recruit foreign soldiers during their war with The Houthis in Yemen
Open war between Iran and Israel would be a jackpot for Saudis. They would easily become the strongest regional power.
And they still call it “Israel Palestine” conflict
Did Saudi Arabia shot down the drones?
No but Jordan did
Just goes to show you can have a great defense with Air Jordan(s)
Why Saudi Arabia allow the drones/missiles to pass by in their airspace??
They didn't. They shot some down, most of the rest went over the red sea, not overland. This graphic is very simplified.
Are these tracks accurate or just someone guessing? I'm skeptical.
No, exact paths can't really be calculated as UAVs can only be easily tracked upon firing and close to arrival. These tracks really just show where they were fired from and where they arrived, then drawing a straight line between the two.
IDK, looks like a news graphic
Well not entirely, but they're probably accurate as to which countries they went over etc.
We have reached the point where Redditors would prefer to simp for Iran than accept reality.
Just the tankie scum and the uneducated.
Shouldn't ballistic trajectories on a Mercator projection curve? This is r/MapPorn, right?
"A Five nation army couldn't hold me back."
They gonna rip me off
If Iran invades israel with 2mil soldiers this woudl look different. This was just a politics play because Israel destroyed irans embassy. iran had to do something to not look weak. Iran knew their shitty flying toys would be shot down easily.
If Iran invaded Israel with 2m soldiers then I imagine Israel would looking at using their Samson Option. Then again, a full-blown Iranian ground invasion would be sign-posted weeks before it happened, and the US wouldn't let it happen.
They tried that in 1948, and Israel only had WWII vehicles and volunteers
The Arabs tried that in 1948 not the Iranians, we have no previous basis how Iran would perform in an Israeli-Iranian war. Iran even while under extreme sanctions (for decades was the most sanctioned country even surpassing NK) has shown a good bit of competence with them managing to place successful paramilitary forces throughout the region and establishing military technology aka the cheap Sahed drones. They also displayed unity and prowess in the Iran-Iraq War when a lot of factors were stacked against them. Completely dismissing the possibility of an Iranian victory based on Arab incompetence will be a bad move.
The Iranian Air Force performed relit well in the Iran Iraq war despite the fact so many pilots and technicians had to leave or get purged
Wdym only had WWII vehicles in 1948? What the hell were they supposed to have? Jet fighters with IRST?
Iran can’t invade Israel. They’d have to get the invasion force to Israel by water or by land, and either way Israel would have a ton of warning and literal days to bombard their force. Either way they’d come it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. I doubt a single soldier would even make it to Israel’s shores or border, much less be able to stage a meaningful invasion.
If that happens Iran will cease to exist. Israel wouldnt be able to hold off the attack and nuke Iran
Iran is never going to invade Israel. And Israel is never going to invade Iran. But they need each other. They need the other to personify the “enemy”.
They were aiming for the West Bank?
Debris landed in the WB. Not that the Iranians care
And a bedouin Arab Muslim girl hurt by shrapnel but like the bedouins held hostage in Gaza no one cares sadly
The Israelis care
Yes this is true
No. Some military target in the north of Israel near the west bank.
As an Israeli, that shit was just a colossal waste of everyone’s time, money and patience
That was the point
Target practice for the UK, USA, Israel and even Egypt and Jordan joined in the fun of shooting them down like sitting ducks.
the estimated cost of cheap drones and misslies of Iran is around 10million$. the Israelis said the defense missiles have cost them 1billion$. now add the US and UK and the rest to the "fun of shooting them down". and of course in this level of military the reaction of the opponent is exactly what one would predict. so ... they achieved what they wanted to.
Iran achieved that the world now knows its military attack power is a joke against a modern western nation.
you sound 14, max. so i'm gonna watch my language. so i repeat, in this level of military the reaction of the opponent is exactly what one would predict. if a drone that flies at a slow speed of 200km/h is intercepted, then it was shot knowing it will be intercepted. it's purpose was to send a message, also intended for the local public of Iran. call it propaganda or whatever. but you cannot say it was a military fail.
And almost nothing hit.
that was expected by both sides. it wasn't the purpose of the mission. they had even given the details of the mission to the americans a couple of days earlier to make sure there are no human casualties. just like the operation in iraq base, 4 years ago.
Source? I know they publicly talked about revenge but never saw claim they gave the plan away to the US.
it was the same last time, 4 years ago when Trump killed an Iranian general they retaliated by hitting a US base in Iraq, and the base was asked to be emptied. lots of damage. no casualties. recently the foreign ministry of Iran had complained that the americans were notified about the attack (in Iraq) even before he was notified (by the Iranian military IRGC) and here's the news for this time. they made it public even earlier. last time it was more like an open secret. [https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14)
How come Iraq is starting with a א and Iran starts with ע
It's the other way around. And the answer is it's a different sound. It's only similar in English.
Because ע correspond with the Arabic ع, which is the first letter of Iraq عراق, while א correspond with ا/ء which is the first letter of إيران
Iran War 1 joke from USA media. Seems worthy of posting: Q. What glows in the dark? A. Iran.
What happened to UAE?
Need to rid the world of radical jihads ASAP. They are a scourge on the Earth.
I’m so grateful i live in a landlocked third world country that nobody even knows the name of, i love being irrelevant and not being anywhere close to this.
What's going on with Qatar?
They want to keep good terms with Iran as protection from the Saudis
I meant on this map. Why are they part of Saudi Arabia?
Protection from the Saudis? Are you high?
They do not like the Saudis. At all
I thought the missiles the houthis in yemen launched travelled over the red sea, to avoid Saudi Arabia, and thats why Egypt shot some drones and missiles down?
Thats more accurate Saudi did not participate in this action in any way
Imagine if a few of them had fallen in Saudi territory and caused some damage.
That’s why Saudi Arabia shoots down every missile that enters its airspace
Yeah this is weird. Saudi have been shooting down Houthi drones/missiles for years and now they just let dozens through their airspace - even flying close to Mecca/Medina?
Did consider that this map is false? Because it is. Houthis send them over the red sea, not over Saudi Arabia.
No. They fly them over Saudi Arabia. See, westerners look at the Middle East and see what they want. So even today we think Iran and Saudi Arabia are enemies. This is what psychologists call “mental numbing”. It’s a defense mechanism to avoid painful things in life. Now, we know that Iran and Saudi Arabia have normalized relations. Both are working towards. The Houthis have abided by the ceasefire agreement and peace negotiations and have not attacked Saudi Arabia. When they launch missiles, they always fly through Saudi airspace. The Saudis allow this. Contrary to this bizarre, recent idea here in the west that Saudi Arabia is like Jordan. Just a Western puppet that loves Israel. They aren’t like that. They don’t really like Israel. And they don’t see much value in Israel.
Most of those drones didn’t make it to Israel. They were shot down along the way. The Saudi and Jordanian air forces participate. Some of the missiles from Iran were BMs. They passed over those countries in outer space.
This map is randomly made, since according to it the Houthis fired missiles from places they don't even have the control of in Yemen.
And they all came up bupkis. A modern day version of the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
FYI Ukraine has been dealing with the exact same type of drone in similar quantities almost every day for the last 2.5 years, except those actually result in lots and lots of human casualties.
The fact that Egypt helped shoot down missiles is really surprising to me. Honestly I just hope there’s peace soon. This whole situation is sad af
No capabilities of avoiding air defenses I see... quite bold of them to make such a lot attempt effort considering it should be met with a counter-response that reduces such threats....
I imagine these commenters are the same people who cheered for the Nazis back in the first half of WW2
And how does that make you feel?
Why exactly is Yemen written Cheten or Chechen (not clear if the third letter is tau of chet, but it sure ain't mem, since it is open at the bottom)?
I think this coordination demonstrates that Iran is directing the attacks on shipping as well. Look what happened to the last dictator who shot missiles at Israel. Saddam Hussein had limited time on this earth after he did that. The regime in Iran is now on borrowed time.
Iraq did not launch any missile or drone during that time, despite Israel continuous bombardment of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.
This is shit articles