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The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report.

More than half of Iran’s weapons were destroyed by U.S. aircraft and missiles before they ever reached Israel. In fact, by commanding a multinational air defense operation and scrambling American fighter jets, this was a U.S. military triumph.

The extent of the U.S. military operation is unbeknownst to the American public, but the Pentagon coordinated a multination, regionwide defense extending from northern Iraq to the southern Persian Gulf on Saturday. During the operation, the U.S., U.K., France, and Jordan all shot down the majority of Iranian drones and missiles. In fact, where U.S. aircraft originated from has not been officially announced, an omission that has been repeated by the mainstream media. Additionally, the role of Saudi Arabia is unclear, both as a base for the United States and in terms of any actions by the Saudi military.

“U.S. intelligence estimates that half of the weapons fired by Iran failed upon launch or in flight due to technical issues,” a U.S. Air Force senior officer told The Intercept. Of the remaining 160 or so, the U.S. shot down the majority, the officer said. The officer was granted anonymity to speak about sensitive operational matters.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

...aight so fuck Israel in a "your genocide is abhorrent and you don't deserve any support from anyone" kind of way, but if we're going to support a genocidal ethnostate anyway, at least we're doing it in a way that stops civilians from betting blown up, as opposed to handing them half a military's worth of bombs for them to drop on other civilians.

Now that that's taken care of, could we maybe take the we're planning on sending over to Israel for them to do even more genocide with, and send them to Ukraine or something so they can fight against genocide instead?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

Jordan shot down a lot. Jordan has roughly as many Palestinians as Gaza.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Jordan directly not really. The American bases in Jordan shot down the drones.

The Jordanian monarchy is heavily corrupt and bribed by America. They receive billions in weapons and bribes to suppress their population and turn the country into an American outpost near Syria and Iraq. Last year they got $1,619,118,868

A prime example was the Tower22 base that got bombed in the beginning of this year

Currently there are massive protests in Jordan against their regime.

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Apparently the drones were aimed at military targets only, unlike Israel’s attack on the embassy.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Slava Ukraini indeed. Israeli citizens do, however have some valid problems with how they're treated by the Islamic nations :| killing a bunch of people where the population demographics is half children is indeed a bit ermh, uh questionable. Feel like having a war criminals trial would be suitable for Hamas and the IDF. What was the name of that unit? 8 something something 👁️👁️👁️📿📿📿🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Israeli citizens do, however have some valid problems with how they're treated by the Islamic nations

Largely as a reaction to the previous actions of the government of Israel towards Muslims.

Most of the citizen-to-citizen issues (in both directions) stem back to decades of government-to-government mistreatment and abuse. All the way back to the creation of Isreal and resulting displacement of Arab/Muslim people who were already there.

And, actually, it ultimately goes back centuries before that, but 1947 was a signifigant increase in hostility and mistrust.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I would suggest that the Christian Europeans have been much worse to Jewish people over the years. the Palestinians have a valid reason to be annoyed that they have to be displaced.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Of course, but that's a separate set of conflicts.

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