RT Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW)It occurs to me that we're seeing a pattern here.⬇️The Iranians are probably baiting our air and missile defense radars in the Middle East into illuminating and giving up their exact positions with ballistic missiles and then killing them with drones. Their cruise drones are by all indications quite precise and effective enough at sliding through fighter sweeps and the very limited SHORAD coverage that exists, likely because the Iranians got a dress rehearsal last year and th ...

RT THE ISLANDER (@IslanderWORLD)These images tell you everything the Pentagon briefings will not. What you are looking at is an Iranian ballistic reentry vehicle escorted by a swarm of penetration aids — decoys engineered to simultaneously exhaust and blind every layer of the defensive stack: Patriot in the terminal phase, THAAD in the upper atmosphere, Arrow 3 in space.This is a purpose-built solution to a specific problem — and the problem Iran was solving was the entire architecture Washington spent hund ...

Northrop reported a successful test-fire of its new solid rocket motor that was built in less than a year, reflecting the industry’s urgency to meet the Trump administration’s demand for homegrown next-gen defense systems https://t.co/qjafLEf9OY ...