The Four Hour War. In the space of four hours yesterday, the Medes and the Persians took Dire Revenge™ for the death of Qassem Soleimani. Anyone who has ever been involved in actual military operations is laughing their asses off today.

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Lol. Interesting English on that article, a pleasure to read! Thanks for sharing.

"The Persians, or maybe it was the Medes (who can tell these days?) crowed that they had launched "tens" of missiles. Actually it was about fifteen, which would be 1.5 tens, according to the CENTCOM guy. Four were duds. Of the remainder, one hit an open field in the middle of nowhere, one landed in an open field in Irbil and gave up the ghost without going kaboom."

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah Rantburg.com can be pretty comedic. They know the issues backwards and forwards. Some are ex-spooks.

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Have you ever seen the crater made by a dud missile flying at several times the speed of sound? It is pretty spectacular.

I took a brief look at the overhead imagery. Probably some missiles missed, I suppose. The ones I saw looked like direct hits on various buildings. That is some good shooting.