holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
Blocking the blockade is just brilliant!
But can they open it?
But can they open it?
US and Iran conflict thread. ( merged threads)
- Thread starter TEOTWAWKI inc.
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Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
Fuckingchina
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
I knew that was gonna happen
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
Useless. It’s time we stop assisting them. Russia can have Poland and the rest.
However, the title isn’t even close to the content. She said they would look at building and equipment efficiency to reduce demand.
spat
.950 JDJ
Russia might take the rest, but I think Poland could take them.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Fuck russia, they cant even take the Ukraine. I think Poland is the only country in europe that aint over run with muzzie scum.
That's because they don't let everything with a heartbeat in. What a fucking novel idea!!!!
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Have heard they shoot illegal border crossers
The Blockade Is the Smokescreen. Within Seven Days, 2,500 Marines Will Invade the Island Behind It. Your Portfolio Is Not Ready.
I predicted this war 17 days before it started. I've tracked every ship, submarine, and bomber moving toward one island since. Every timeline converges this week.
open.substack.com
Short version: Iran's defense is decentralized by design. It will go on even without a central authority.
Marines go into kharg Island this weekend after the seals do their special prep magic.
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The Blockade Is the Smokescreen. Within Seven Days, 2,500 Marines Will Invade the Island Behind It. Your Portfolio Is Not Ready.
I predicted this war 17 days before it started. I've tracked every ship, submarine, and bomber moving toward one island since. Every timeline converges this week.
Halfway through, very interesting indeed.
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
They may take some islands near the straight, but unlikely to take Kharg, too far north,to hard to supply , like 300 miles from straight . I think thats a total misdirection play. Sure they could do it , but its pain in the ass to hold it , better to take the Islands in the straight , and a little easier ,
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope
Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope
The Marines in the photos are with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which deployed in March to support operations in the Middle East.
taskandpurpose.com
"The company that makes the SMASH 2000L advanced fire control system confirmed that a recent series of photos show deployed Marines using the smart scope."
"The SMASH 2000L is designed to track drones and other moving targets, and it also compensates for shooters’ movements, Thompson told Task & Purpose in July."
SMASH 2000L
How It Works (Step-by-Step Operation)
1. Basic Sight Mode (See-Through Reflex/Red Dot): It acts like a standard red-dot sight for quick, unaided shooting. You look through the see-through optics with both eyes open, using a simple reticle for rapid engagement.
2. Target Acquisition and Lock:
• Identify a target (ground or aerial, including fast-moving drones).
• Press a lock button (often on the handguard or grip).
• The system’s camera and AI detect and draw a digital box around the target, then begin tracking its movement in real time. It analyzes speed, direction, range, elevation, wind, and other factors.
3. Ballistic Calculations and Fire Timing:
• The integrated computer uses user-selected ballistics data (for specific rifles/ammo like 5.56mm M855) to calculate where the bullet will go.
• It continuously updates the firing solution, accounting for your own movement and the target’s path.
• Visual cues appear in the display (e.g., projected markers, arrows for aim adjustment, or a bold/cross reticle when hit probability is high—reportedly around 90-95%).
4. Shot Release (Fire Control Mechanism):
• You pull and hold the trigger.
• The rifle does not fire immediately. A Fire Block Mechanism (integrated into a replacement grip/trigger guard) prevents the shot until the computer determines the barrel is aligned for a high-probability hit.
• When conditions are optimal, it synchronizes and releases the shot automatically. This “coincident shot release” or “fire timing” removes timing errors.
• You can unlock the system for manual firing if needed (e.g., for static targets or rules of engagement).
5. Special Modes:
• Drone Mode: Optimized for erratic small UAS flight patterns; it can auto-detect/prioritize drones and provide guidance.
• Night Mode: Switches to low-light video display.
• Day Mode: Uses see-through projected markers.
• Recording: The camera often captures footage for after-action review.
It supports quick digital zeroing, multiple ammo/rifle profiles, and is rugged (MIL-STD compliant). Battery life is long (up to 72 hours or thousands of assisted shots), and an optional NIR illuminator aids low-light use. Weight is reduced in the “L” (light) version compared to earlier models.
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Another article by the same guy that predicts the marines go in this weekend. Warning, it's another long article but it is filled with data. Certain interesting quotes:
The organization that controls a third of Iran’s GDP, runs its own foreign policy, funds itself through no-bid contracts in construction, telecom, banking, and shipping, and was specifically designed to survive the exact kind of decapitation strike the United States just delivered. Imagine if the Marine Corps also owned Verizon, Bechtel, JPMorgan’s oil trading desk, and half the commercial real estate in Houston. Now imagine they answered to a cleric who claims divine authority. That’s the IRGC. That’s who the ceasefire is supposed to contain. Good luck.
There are roughly 100-120 million barrels of crude sitting on tankers that loaded before the war and have nowhere to go. These barrels exist. They are on ships. They are floating in circles in the Indian Ocean like very expensive, very confused cruise ships with no passengers and no itinerary. This floating inventory is depleting at 2-3 million barrels per day. Chinese teapot refineries in Shandong Province are buying these stranded cargoes at $15-20 premiums above benchmark because they have no alternative feedstock and closing the refinery means laying off 5,000 workers. When the choice is between paying an absurd premium and explaining to 5,000 families why Christmas is cancelled in a country that doesn’t celebrate Christmas, you pay the premium. By late April, the floating storage cushion is exhausted.
Asian dependency on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. South Korea: 73% of its crude comes through Hormuz. 14 days of import cover.
Fourteen days. That is two weeks. Two weeks between “the economy is functioning” and “the economy is not functioning.” South Korea is where your semiconductors come from. Samsung and SK Hynix produce roughly half the world’s memory chips. Those fabs do not run on optimism. They run on electricity generated by burning oil that is no longer arriving. Japan: 88% through Hormuz. The world’s third-largest economy. Where your car was designed, your robotics were engineered, and your financial advisor’s model portfolio was backtested using data that assumed Japanese manufacturing would exist forever. Singapore: 100% of its LPG. One hundred percent. Not most. All. Singapore is the world’s largest transshipment port. When Singapore runs out of fuel, the supply chain doesn’t slow down. It stops. Like a heart. The Philippines: declared a national energy emergency. Bangladesh: zero strategic reserve. Not low. Zero. The number between negative one and one that means the lights go out when the last barrel burns. Your iPhone is assembled in China and India. Your semiconductors are fabricated in South Korea and Taiwan. Your car was designed in Japan. Your clothes were sewn in Vietnam and Bangladesh.
One-third of global urea trade passes through Hormuz. Urea is up 50%. QatarEnergy halted urea production. China restricted fertilizer exports.
If you do not know what urea is, you will. It is the nitrogen-based fertilizer that American farmers apply to corn, wheat, and soybeans so that those crops grow instead of not growing. The difference between “grow” and “not grow” is the difference between $4 bread and $8 bread. The timeline is six months. The fuse was lit three weeks ago. The math on planting just broke. When input costs spike, farmers apply less nitrogen. Lower application means lower yields. Lower yields mean higher food prices. You won’t see it at Kroger until October. The farmers see it now.
DEF. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Made from urea. Every diesel truck in America requires it. Every single one. EPA mandate: no DEF, no trucking. The engine management system literally prevents the truck from operating without it. This is not a suggestion. It is a computer that says no. If urea tightens further, it is not just food inflation. It is logistics paralysis. The agriculture-to-trucking contagion runs through the same molecule. The farmer can’t afford the fertilizer. The trucker can’t run the truck. The grocery store can’t stock the shelf. And your financial advisor is showing you a chart of the S&P 500 at 6,960 and telling you the worst is over. The worst is not over. The worst is in the mail. First class. Return address: the Strait of Hormuz. Four billion people are adjusting to a world where the fuel doesn’t arrive. America hasn’t adjusted yet. It will.
substack.com
The organization that controls a third of Iran’s GDP, runs its own foreign policy, funds itself through no-bid contracts in construction, telecom, banking, and shipping, and was specifically designed to survive the exact kind of decapitation strike the United States just delivered. Imagine if the Marine Corps also owned Verizon, Bechtel, JPMorgan’s oil trading desk, and half the commercial real estate in Houston. Now imagine they answered to a cleric who claims divine authority. That’s the IRGC. That’s who the ceasefire is supposed to contain. Good luck.
There are roughly 100-120 million barrels of crude sitting on tankers that loaded before the war and have nowhere to go. These barrels exist. They are on ships. They are floating in circles in the Indian Ocean like very expensive, very confused cruise ships with no passengers and no itinerary. This floating inventory is depleting at 2-3 million barrels per day. Chinese teapot refineries in Shandong Province are buying these stranded cargoes at $15-20 premiums above benchmark because they have no alternative feedstock and closing the refinery means laying off 5,000 workers. When the choice is between paying an absurd premium and explaining to 5,000 families why Christmas is cancelled in a country that doesn’t celebrate Christmas, you pay the premium. By late April, the floating storage cushion is exhausted.
Asian dependency on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. South Korea: 73% of its crude comes through Hormuz. 14 days of import cover.
Fourteen days. That is two weeks. Two weeks between “the economy is functioning” and “the economy is not functioning.” South Korea is where your semiconductors come from. Samsung and SK Hynix produce roughly half the world’s memory chips. Those fabs do not run on optimism. They run on electricity generated by burning oil that is no longer arriving. Japan: 88% through Hormuz. The world’s third-largest economy. Where your car was designed, your robotics were engineered, and your financial advisor’s model portfolio was backtested using data that assumed Japanese manufacturing would exist forever. Singapore: 100% of its LPG. One hundred percent. Not most. All. Singapore is the world’s largest transshipment port. When Singapore runs out of fuel, the supply chain doesn’t slow down. It stops. Like a heart. The Philippines: declared a national energy emergency. Bangladesh: zero strategic reserve. Not low. Zero. The number between negative one and one that means the lights go out when the last barrel burns. Your iPhone is assembled in China and India. Your semiconductors are fabricated in South Korea and Taiwan. Your car was designed in Japan. Your clothes were sewn in Vietnam and Bangladesh.
One-third of global urea trade passes through Hormuz. Urea is up 50%. QatarEnergy halted urea production. China restricted fertilizer exports.
If you do not know what urea is, you will. It is the nitrogen-based fertilizer that American farmers apply to corn, wheat, and soybeans so that those crops grow instead of not growing. The difference between “grow” and “not grow” is the difference between $4 bread and $8 bread. The timeline is six months. The fuse was lit three weeks ago. The math on planting just broke. When input costs spike, farmers apply less nitrogen. Lower application means lower yields. Lower yields mean higher food prices. You won’t see it at Kroger until October. The farmers see it now.
DEF. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Made from urea. Every diesel truck in America requires it. Every single one. EPA mandate: no DEF, no trucking. The engine management system literally prevents the truck from operating without it. This is not a suggestion. It is a computer that says no. If urea tightens further, it is not just food inflation. It is logistics paralysis. The agriculture-to-trucking contagion runs through the same molecule. The farmer can’t afford the fertilizer. The trucker can’t run the truck. The grocery store can’t stock the shelf. And your financial advisor is showing you a chart of the S&P 500 at 6,960 and telling you the worst is over. The worst is not over. The worst is in the mail. First class. Return address: the Strait of Hormuz. Four billion people are adjusting to a world where the fuel doesn’t arrive. America hasn’t adjusted yet. It will.
There Are Two Oil Prices. The Fake One Is on CNBC. The Real One Is on a Ship. Your 401(k) Is Built on the Fake One. Welcome to the New Subprime.
A robot just spent $83.5 billion making sure you don't notice the difference. Four charts. Twelve names. From the guy who turned $1M into $120M while 72 people watched and learned absolutely nothing.
substack.com
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
- An apparent IED attack in central Tehran leaves three injured, including a member of the regime’s Basij paramilitary force—raising new questions about whether unrest may be brewing inside Iran amid an ongoing information blackout.
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
The IRGC effectively run the nation now.
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
Yeah, as soon as the clerics instated the IRG's mannequin supreme leader under IRG's gun point.
He who has the most weapons, power and control wins.
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
I’m not sure what this is getting at here? He quoted the section(chapter and paragraph) of the Bible, but not the verse.
If you research the Bible verse it is about defending and destroying people to attack Jews and that is what could be said we are doing. He never meant to quote the Bible verse as an equation is a word-for-word representation of something.
What he is doing is using this Bible verses as a justification for our actions. I’m sure you could find many Bible verses quotes in many movies. What he’s said only remotely reflects what was said in Pulp Fiction.
Now I do not necessarily support this use because this is the Lord speaking and Pete is not the Lord in anyway.
Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 25:17 - King James Version
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
Strait of Hormuz ‘completely open’ as Trump celebrates tumbling oil prices, rips into NATO as ‘Paper Tiger’
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday announced that the Strait of Hormuz is now “completely open” for all ships — so long as the Israel-Lebanon cease-fire remains in.
nypost.com
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
From a Joe Schmoe perspective, while sitting in my kitchen chair. I have to say I disagree with the ceasefires that are taking place. But what do I know about it?
Ah fuck that what do I know about it shit. Iran can't be trusted, Iran has more than proven that they need to be wiped from the face of this Earth. I wish President Trump would stop with the overthinking shit and pussy footing around and just do the needful and crush the IRGC once and for all.
If I were in the Trump administration, I would be telling the Orange Man 24/7 that nice guys finish last... This stuff isn't exactly rocket science, to an everyday typical Joe Schmoe anyway.
Ah fuck that what do I know about it shit. Iran can't be trusted, Iran has more than proven that they need to be wiped from the face of this Earth. I wish President Trump would stop with the overthinking shit and pussy footing around and just do the needful and crush the IRGC once and for all.
If I were in the Trump administration, I would be telling the Orange Man 24/7 that nice guys finish last... This stuff isn't exactly rocket science, to an everyday typical Joe Schmoe anyway.
Beerman
6.5 Creedmoor
What Pete quoted is pure Hollywood, not the Bible.I’m not sure what this is getting at here? He quoted the section(chapter and paragraph) of the Bible, but not the verse.
If you research the Bible verse it is about defending and destroying people to attack Jews and that is what could be said we are doing. He never meant to quote the Bible verse as an equation is a word-for-word representation of something.
What he is doing is using this Bible verses as a justification for our actions. I’m sure you could find many Bible verses quotes in many movies. What he’s said only remotely reflects what was said in Pulp Fiction.
Now I do not necessarily support this use because this is the Lord speaking and Pete is not the Lord in anyway.
Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 25:17 - King James Version
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.www.biblegateway.com
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
The US holds Israel's chain...not the other way around. That's why the "Jews did this" narrative is so stupid and disingenuous.
spat
.950 JDJ
Not sure that's actually a new development.
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
That was my kind of point, but it’s not a pulp fiction quote either. It’s not a Bible quote or any scripture in the Bible nor scripture from Pulp Fiction. The bible references talks about the Lord taking care of people or killing those against Israel. Pete isn’t the lord and what he said is not a Bible quote. He used it to justify our actions and the rescue of the pilots. I believe he even mentioned the pilots.
The only quote form the bible or close to it is Ezekiel 25:17.
Here is the scripture from Ezekiel 25:17.
Ezekiel 25:17
King James Version
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
There is nothing in Hegseth's speech that remotely resembles it word for word. A quote is word for word. If I’m quoting Hegseth or Pulp Fiction my words would mirror those sources, none mirror each other. Words matter, facts matter. This is not a quote from the Bible or Pulp Fiction. There are similarities, but not quotations.
What Pete is saying here is that our actions and the actions of the pilots are justified by the scripture mentioned. You can argue that if you want and there are valid arguments for and against it. However, there is no argument to show Pete quoted the Bible or Pulp Fiction. His speech format was similar to that of Pulp Fiction, but again not a quote.
Pete, in fact, did wrong and for someone who says they are a Bible believer this is blasphemy at its finest IMO.