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Maybe stupid question but how would Iran do it? They don’t have any ships in the area and also don’t have any satellites that could take pictures, right? Or do
by echoangle 7mo ago
Maybe stupid question but how would Iran do it? They don’t have any ships in the area and also don’t have any satellites that could take pictures, right?
Or does getting told by Russia count?
- elif 7mo agoLook at marinetraffic.com and then try to map a course across the Mediterranean that won't be seen by dozens of ships. It's impossible.
- ronnier 7mo agoRussia and China help them.
- rtkwe 7mo agoI bet you could do it with a big enough expense account with Planet Labs and the compute power to process the images these days. Track it forwards from the last public port of call or *INT leak like this strava data. 3.7m accuracy seems like enough to do it. It's not enough to target it directly but it would be enough to get more capable assets into the right area a la the interception of Japan's ships when they attacked Midway.
- bpodgursky 7mo agoIran, like most countries, does not a blue water navy with assets in the Mediterranean sea to perform realtime surveillance.
- rtkwe 7mo agoThey had a handful of frigates mostly but those could go out as far as the Med pretty easily. One of their ships was sunk near Sri Lanka.
- signatoremo 7mo agoIt was sunk there because it attended an on-off event in India before that. Iran's ships don't get on regular trips far from home.
- rtkwe 7mo agoThey don't but it shows they could.
- awesome_dude 7mo agoI mean, a personal yacht can sail around the world, that's not really demonstrating whether the vessel is useful in combat operations anywhere in the world.
- snickerbockers 7mo agoAmerica has intelligence-sharing agreements with allied nations wherein our satellites are taking photos on the allies' behalf of things that we might not otherwise be interested in. I'm sure China and Russia have similar arrangements with their allies.
- guerrilla 7mo agoIran does with Russia. It's been in the news a lot lately. I have no doubt they do with China as well.
- mrguyorama 7mo agoChina is absolutely sharing intel with Iran. They cannot believe their luck. The US is getting itself into a Ukraine, draining all their advanced weapon stocks, delivering tons of real war data for China to work with. It's like Christmas. Real practice tracking US assets and wargaming against them is such a break for them.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoYes, Russia helps Iran target our troops and (likely) sailors. But don't you dare suggest that hanging a portrait of Putin in the White House is inappropriate, or a Republican might get mad.
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- CamperBob2 7mo agoI certainly hope so, but we've pretty much hung Ukraine out to dry under Trump [1], just like we did the Iranian protesters. Unlike Russia, Ukraine evidently doesn't have any kompromat on Trump or the Republican Party in general. 1: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-military-aid-ukraine-dropped-195934821.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-military-aid-ukraine-...
- Joker_vD 7mo ago> I certainly hope so Then you probably should accept that proxy wars work both ways. And well, it's not really Iran's fault that its borders has crept so close to the US military bases.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoWho is Iran a proxy for? Russia, as usual, has only benefited from Trump's actions. The one thing you can say about Iran is that they were absolute morons not to actually build or otherwise acquire a nuclear arsenal. They had decades. If Pakistan could do it...
- xyzelement 7mo agoIt's such a retarded take that hitting Russia's main ally (iran) is somehow pro-russia. Does taking out their number two ally (Venezuela) also help them?