There are around 800 C-135 in existence, not all of them are operational, and not all can be deployed in the region. It’s a major news because the US is losing assets worth billions of dollars on daily basis, and is unable to protect its based and airfields where Iran now operates with impunity.
First, one-eighth of a percent isn’t statistically meaningful. This is a top-priority combat theatre and aircraft are still flying. Any C-135 that can fly can get there, the sky is largely open to the usa.
Second, the claim that the U.S. is losing significant assets feels like a stretch, especially given the first point. Can you share sources to support that?
First, one-eighth of a percent isn’t statistically meaningful.
fuck i hate these misaproppiations of technical terms. “Really small number” is not the same as “statistically meaningless”, go to a police station with one-eigth percent blood alcohol content, tell them you’re gonna go drive know and see if they think it isn’t “statistically meaningful”
I get your distinction, but you’re mixing contexts. A small percentage in a system isn’t the same as BAC in a human body. Let’s keep it apples to apples.
And hey, don’t let that hate eat you up, this back and forth is essentially meaningless leisure. it’s not that deep.
BAC in a human body is a small percentage in a system though? So by your definition it is apples to apples.
You’re speaking of 0.125% of all those types of aircraft, including the non-operational ones or the ones in operation elsewhere. Even if there were still 500 aircraft available how many are in the region on standby to be deployed immediately to continue operations unimpeded? You don’t need to destroy all of them to degrade operations to a point where its no longer viable, only a sufficient amount. That’s why 0.125% BAC is already a pretty high amount. It degrades operations to a sufficient degree, rendering one incapable of operation machinery for instance.
this back and forth is essentially meaningless leisure
and fuck do I hate people that treat news and war like some tv-show episode or sportsgame. These are real people dying by the terror attacks from the judeochristian fundamentalists. It’s not meaningless and the fact that you debate it “for leisure” is frankly revolting.
The real meaninglessness is this back and forth. I am not changing your mind, just giving your anger something to focus on.
I am stepping away from it, but I will leave you with this: if someone can make you angry, they can control you. Anger may feel powerful, but it takes your power and leaves you carrying it alone. Take care.
if someone can make you angry, they can control you. Anger may feel powerful, but it takes your power and leaves you carrying it alone. Take care.
and buddy do I fucking hate it when people think that emotions are to be shunned and think some platitudes about tranquility are deep. There are no bad emotions only bad ways to deal with them. There is a reason people get angry in the face of injustice, embracing that anger gives one the motivation to act in an altruistic manner. It allows us to put the immediate and visible rewards for us aside and put oneself in harms way for the benefits of others.
The people that think that emotionless debate is the highest form of reason have not understood what debating others is for.
because the users here are desperate to feel like Iran is some genius amazing military force and the USA is incompetent and pathetic.
hence the lie in the headline and the commentary further exaggerating what actually happened. it’s pure delusion, but you are on lemmy.ml which is full of pro-authoritarian, anti-democractic folk.
It will be really funny years from now after the full extent of the damage is widely acknowledged, I wonder what you will be saying then. Material reality doesn’t care about your chauvinism.
I’m not in or from the US, I’m from one of the many Latin American countries where we had a US backed dictatorship disappearing random people, including my grandpa’s friends, so fuck you
“Repairing” major aircraft isn’t like fixing a dent on a sedan. A single nick in a critical zone triggers full disassembly, part-by-part inspection, and replacement. Five KC-135s took direct hits from explosives. That they aren’t “dust” is irrelevant. Structural integrity is compromised. Return to service means months or more of labor, scarce parts, and diverted maintenance capacity as they are fully dismantled, inspected and then possibly repaired.
Then there’s the cost exchange. Iranian ballistic missiles run roughly $1-2 million to produce. A KC-135 is ~$80 million adjusted for inflation. Five tankers is ~$400 million in assets, not counting wasted crew training during operational downtime and the repair costs. When one side trades cheap, mass-produced munitions for high-value, hard-to-replace platforms, that’s clearly valuable.
And let’s be real about US “competence.” They lost a $1.1 billion radar to a Shahed drone. A Black Hawk and an advanced anti-drone radar taken out by FPV strikes. The Strait closed while they scrambled. An F-35 forced back for repairs after taking a hit from an old IR-tube missile. This campaign has been a comedy of errors.
Iran isn’t full of military geniuses. But they’re showing clear competency: splitting command into cells to blunt decapitation strikes, prioritizing radar and C4ISR first, then shifting to high-value enablers like tankers. They understand the material conditions. The US is learning, expensively once again, that overwhelming cost and complexity is a vulnerability.
and your ‘argument’ is is meaningless grandstanding for Iran, totally ignoring the 100s of assets and their value that were destroyed. Iran effectively has no air force or navy anymore.
Iran was running soviet hand me downs and equivalents, their air force and navy were never core to their military strategy. Drones, missiles etc are the core and it’s clearly working.
The fact is that the US spends nearly a trillion a year on its military (more than the next 10 countries combined) and built it’s image on being “THE” military superpower yet they are having their toys destroyed in massive cost loss conversions.
Why do you feel the need to lick US boots beyond being deeply chauvinist internally. The US clearly has no real goal in this war, it’s shifted from nebulous “regime change” (which worked out so well every other time) to opening the straight that was already open before this idiotic war.
Why is it so hard for you to admit that this is an idiotic war, a comedy of errors pushed forward by an inflated military budget and a false sense of invincibility. They have lost/spent roughly $61billion already increasing around $1billion a day, and what do they have to show for it? Destroying an air force and navy that wasn’t worth anything already? An Iranian populace now more radicalised than ever against them? An energy crisis threatening to topple the petrodollar?
You really should come down to reality sometimes if you manage to remove your tongue from the US’s sphincter. Iran could still absolutely be toppled but to act like to this point it hasn’t been a serious contender for fractions of a cent on the dollar spent, or that the US hasn’t been bumbling it’s way through losing well over a billion in advanced weapons platforms is ridiculous and completely detached from reality.
With a fleet of around 14,500 aircraft and substantial ongoing investment, five grounded aircraft doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy.
Curious why this is being highlighted as major news.
There are around 800 C-135 in existence, not all of them are operational, and not all can be deployed in the region. It’s a major news because the US is losing assets worth billions of dollars on daily basis, and is unable to protect its based and airfields where Iran now operates with impunity.
Ty for the reply. Two points I’m struggling with:
First, one-eighth of a percent isn’t statistically meaningful. This is a top-priority combat theatre and aircraft are still flying. Any C-135 that can fly can get there, the sky is largely open to the usa.
Second, the claim that the U.S. is losing significant assets feels like a stretch, especially given the first point. Can you share sources to support that?
fuck i hate these misaproppiations of technical terms. “Really small number” is not the same as “statistically meaningless”, go to a police station with one-eigth percent blood alcohol content, tell them you’re gonna go drive know and see if they think it isn’t “statistically meaningful”
I get your distinction, but you’re mixing contexts. A small percentage in a system isn’t the same as BAC in a human body. Let’s keep it apples to apples.
And hey, don’t let that hate eat you up, this back and forth is essentially meaningless leisure. it’s not that deep.
BAC in a human body is a small percentage in a system though? So by your definition it is apples to apples.
You’re speaking of 0.125% of all those types of aircraft, including the non-operational ones or the ones in operation elsewhere. Even if there were still 500 aircraft available how many are in the region on standby to be deployed immediately to continue operations unimpeded? You don’t need to destroy all of them to degrade operations to a point where its no longer viable, only a sufficient amount. That’s why 0.125% BAC is already a pretty high amount. It degrades operations to a sufficient degree, rendering one incapable of operation machinery for instance.
and fuck do I hate people that treat news and war like some tv-show episode or sportsgame. These are real people dying by the terror attacks from the judeochristian fundamentalists. It’s not meaningless and the fact that you debate it “for leisure” is frankly revolting.
The real meaninglessness is this back and forth. I am not changing your mind, just giving your anger something to focus on.
I am stepping away from it, but I will leave you with this: if someone can make you angry, they can control you. Anger may feel powerful, but it takes your power and leaves you carrying it alone. Take care.
and buddy do I fucking hate it when people think that emotions are to be shunned and think some platitudes about tranquility are deep. There are no bad emotions only bad ways to deal with them. There is a reason people get angry in the face of injustice, embracing that anger gives one the motivation to act in an altruistic manner. It allows us to put the immediate and visible rewards for us aside and put oneself in harms way for the benefits of others.
The people that think that emotionless debate is the highest form of reason have not understood what debating others is for.
This is one of the least mature ways to leave an argument
try being all tranquil when bombs are dropping over your home all the time fuckass
dumb fucking enlightened redditor
because the users here are desperate to feel like Iran is some genius amazing military force and the USA is incompetent and pathetic.
hence the lie in the headline and the commentary further exaggerating what actually happened. it’s pure delusion, but you are on lemmy.ml which is full of pro-authoritarian, anti-democractic folk.
It will be really funny years from now after the full extent of the damage is widely acknowledged, I wonder what you will be saying then. Material reality doesn’t care about your chauvinism.
Yeah, and tomorrow the entire usa will just spontaneously combust. Yourself included.
I’m not in or from the US, I’m from one of the many Latin American countries where we had a US backed dictatorship disappearing random people, including my grandpa’s friends, so fuck you
“Repairing” major aircraft isn’t like fixing a dent on a sedan. A single nick in a critical zone triggers full disassembly, part-by-part inspection, and replacement. Five KC-135s took direct hits from explosives. That they aren’t “dust” is irrelevant. Structural integrity is compromised. Return to service means months or more of labor, scarce parts, and diverted maintenance capacity as they are fully dismantled, inspected and then possibly repaired.
Then there’s the cost exchange. Iranian ballistic missiles run roughly $1-2 million to produce. A KC-135 is ~$80 million adjusted for inflation. Five tankers is ~$400 million in assets, not counting wasted crew training during operational downtime and the repair costs. When one side trades cheap, mass-produced munitions for high-value, hard-to-replace platforms, that’s clearly valuable.
And let’s be real about US “competence.” They lost a $1.1 billion radar to a Shahed drone. A Black Hawk and an advanced anti-drone radar taken out by FPV strikes. The Strait closed while they scrambled. An F-35 forced back for repairs after taking a hit from an old IR-tube missile. This campaign has been a comedy of errors.
Iran isn’t full of military geniuses. But they’re showing clear competency: splitting command into cells to blunt decapitation strikes, prioritizing radar and C4ISR first, then shifting to high-value enablers like tankers. They understand the material conditions. The US is learning, expensively once again, that overwhelming cost and complexity is a vulnerability.
Also authoritarian is meaningless pejorative.
and your ‘argument’ is is meaningless grandstanding for Iran, totally ignoring the 100s of assets and their value that were destroyed. Iran effectively has no air force or navy anymore.
Iran was running soviet hand me downs and equivalents, their air force and navy were never core to their military strategy. Drones, missiles etc are the core and it’s clearly working.
The fact is that the US spends nearly a trillion a year on its military (more than the next 10 countries combined) and built it’s image on being “THE” military superpower yet they are having their toys destroyed in massive cost loss conversions.
Why do you feel the need to lick US boots beyond being deeply chauvinist internally. The US clearly has no real goal in this war, it’s shifted from nebulous “regime change” (which worked out so well every other time) to opening the straight that was already open before this idiotic war.
Why is it so hard for you to admit that this is an idiotic war, a comedy of errors pushed forward by an inflated military budget and a false sense of invincibility. They have lost/spent roughly $61billion already increasing around $1billion a day, and what do they have to show for it? Destroying an air force and navy that wasn’t worth anything already? An Iranian populace now more radicalised than ever against them? An energy crisis threatening to topple the petrodollar?
You really should come down to reality sometimes if you manage to remove your tongue from the US’s sphincter. Iran could still absolutely be toppled but to act like to this point it hasn’t been a serious contender for fractions of a cent on the dollar spent, or that the US hasn’t been bumbling it’s way through losing well over a billion in advanced weapons platforms is ridiculous and completely detached from reality.
Ah the “assets and value” of 153 schoolchildren. Wow much strategy, waste weapons you can’t resupply on civilians.
I’m seeing tankis and wankies fighting each other. And I love it.
Tell em’ how much you’re “winning”, your health insurance isn’t going to pay itself.