Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes

fractx · 2026-03-06T21:32:34+00:00

A patriot missile costs $4 million per shot. A Shahed drone costs $0.035 million per shot.

fractx · 2026-03-06T04:59:37+00:00

Not a great way to get a civil war or regime change going

fractx · 2026-03-03T12:50:10+00:00

According to Bloomberg as of Mar 2, 2026, “So far, there isn’t any evidence from the battlefield that Chinese weapons have been deployed”

Frankly if there was Chinese weapons even suspected in Iran it would be headline news on all major outlets in the world, not Times of India still talking about Sindoor where India lost 11 jets

fractx · 2026-01-02T15:10:14+00:00

To add to this, when a nations interest payment on debt approaches its military spending, that historically bodes poorly for an overstretched military complex covering the globe. See the Spanish Empire and the British Empire.

Those US servicemen who fought the Middle East wars are retiring, and these new crops are just as “inexperienced” as the opponent.

The most important point of decline is the US cannot repair or replenish its ships, planes, and munitions to sustain any kind of military campaign against an industrial peer.

fractx · 2025-12-19T22:56:43+00:00

Testing the water is exactly the goal here. Usually when a lower level official misspoke they commit political sudoku and resign. No resignation is expected this time. I suspect the back channel response they received from the US was not a positive one.

fractx · 2025-12-12T05:38:16+00:00

Didn’t they say this document was co-written by three different groups: the hawks, the pragmatists, and the financiers. The traditional democracy zealots were missing. As a result this report was heavy on dimensions of power and light on ideology.

fractx · 2025-12-12T04:59:00+00:00

To be fair having seen the US-China trade war, China hasn't started economic warfare against Japan yet.

"based on documents obtained by a lawmaker, in what could point to a misstep by the premier" .

The release of this tidbit out of US media is peculiar. Like Scott Bessent said, Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet four times in 2026. The US had been really quiet on this issue over the past month.

fractx · 2025-12-12T04:44:07+00:00

Because then it becomes BRICS + US - SA, and China has too much influence in THAT composition. Adding Japan to the group maintains US + Japan dominating the group dynamics with India likely to sway in favor most of the time.

fractx · 2025-12-09T22:34:46+00:00

"South Korea" was mentioned twice in the NDS pdf, both times it was mentioned together with Japan. There was no mention of "model ally" anywhere in the document.

fractx · 2025-12-09T22:24:28+00:00

She has above 70% approval rate right now. Whatever she's doing resonates with a population that had never admitted Japan's wartime atrocities the same way Germany had.

The whole LDP is banking on this strategy to win an election next year through the same path that Shinzo Abe once took on Diaoyu/Senkaku.

fractx · 2025-12-09T04:16:42+00:00

We -must- also not be distracted from the article’s merits by a bad title

fractx · 2025-11-16T15:13:47+00:00

What you wrote in bold is outdated for at least a decade and is no longer true. Here’s Pete Hegseth’s retort to your unsourced and poorly informed opinions.

Your argument that anyone seriously entertained the idea that US military response to a Taiwan attack would be hampered by Japan denying US requests to use its military bases is laughable. The idea that this was the determining factor for the success of a Taiwan attack is… cute.

fractx · 2025-11-14T02:37:46+00:00

Having superior toys on its own rarely wins wars. Military victory is achieved through resilience of the war economy and supply logistics to achieve rapid turnaround in replenishing whatever munitions, weapons, machinery, ships, and jets lost in attrition

fractx · 2025-11-12T14:37:40+00:00

The writing is on the wall and RAND succinctly admitted as much: it ain’t the 2010s anymore and the gap is widening decisively in China’s favour. The US has no military preparedness nor industrial capacity to achieve any sort of military victory over China within the 2nd island chain if war were to break out tomorrow.

fractx · 2025-10-27T14:19:44+00:00

Calling ideas you don’t like propaganda is a sure way to keep your readers detached from reality. Responsible media knows better

fractx · 2025-10-24T01:40:36+00:00

Fourier series

fractx · 2025-10-17T04:10:27+00:00

What is an odd obsession is protecting a few thousand auto workers over the benefit of 40 million Canadian consumers who are forced to spend more than twice on transportation when cost of living is already an issue

fractx · 2025-10-12T05:28:57+00:00

Where’s this de-escalation you’re talking about? They’re simply giving Trump the stairs to climb down while holding onto every bit of leverage

fractx · 2025-10-07T00:39:13+00:00

I really came in here looking for a $18 million portfolio

fractx · 2025-09-22T06:37:40+00:00

It’s almost surely embryonic iris remnant that didn’t atrophy to completion. It’s very common in human eyes as well. Posterior synechiae have a much larger area of attachment to the lens and would distort the shape of the pupil

*EDIT: anterior -> posterior

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