🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸An Iranian Ababil-3 recon drone in Kuwaiti airspace likely monitoring the Bubiyan Island and areas near the Iraqi border for signs of US HIMARS/ATCAMS batteries.
But this action, speaks volumes about the growing Iranian confidence and prowess across the battlefield to obtain real-time data.
Iran potentially has 7 satellites in LEO that it can utilise to obtain ground data for military use.
Three are believed to have been re-purposed to this end.
They pass over the region every 90 minutes or so. But that leaves gaps in up to the minute intelligence gathering.


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🇬🇧The USAF B-1B bombers took off from RAF Fairford, minutes ago.
Targeting Iran's Najm-804 radar in Shiraz earlier, is beginning to make sense now.
Iran's Arman ballistic missile defence has an engagement range of 120 km at an altitude of 27 km.
Najm-804 is the system component radar of Arman.
The system is considered a serious threat to B-1s.

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🇸🇦Smoke rising from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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🇮🇷🇯🇴🇺🇸Here's a panoramic grand tour of Iranian strikes on the Mwafaq Satil US Airbase in Jordan up until July 19.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸Explosions in Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan Province.

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🇮🇷🇧🇭🇺🇸Iranian missile launch toward Bahrain.

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🇮🇷🇧🇭🇺🇸Multiple explosions shake Bahrain. The US base on the Island was also struck by a Sejil II missile on the 19th or 20th.

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🇮🇷🇧🇭🇺🇸Smoke rising from Manama. The strike likely targeting one of US military's residences.
They've been dispersed throughout the tiny island for safety after repeated Iranian ballistic missile strikes on the living quarters of their bases.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸In the US base in Erbil, many patriot interceptors are being fired at incoming Iranian ballistic missile and drones.
Judging by the glow of an impact at 22" on video, not very successfully.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸The moment of impact of an Iranian missile on its target in Erbil, Iraqi Province of Kurdistan.
Enjoy folks.😁

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🇮🇶Iraqi sources report that Erbil International Airport has been closed following Iranian missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
The main US military base in situated on the airport grounds.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸A Shahed-136 finds its mark in Erbil.

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🇮🇱The Zionist apartheid entity's Channel 14: Target of the Iranian ballistic missile strike in Manama, Bahrain was the "Israeli " Embassy.


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Report: The US B-1 bombers currently aerial refueling over Romania.

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Just remembered, a drone was brought down early this morning by Iranian air defences in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran.
Parker Hannifin makes parts for the US RQ-170 and Israeli Harop attack drones.
Perhaps Iran's missile strike near the Zionist apartheid entity's embassy in Manama was a warning in response to their violation of Iranian airspace.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷Those B-1s should be over Republic of Azerbaijan or on a parallel line over the Caspian Sea by now. The strikes will be along a north-south axis.
I reckon Tabriz and Uromia will catch the worst of it, if not the Iranian Navy's Caspian Sea naval bases.
Just speculation.

🇮🇶Iraqi sources: Ambulances arrive at Erbil Airport and the US Consulate in Erbil.
**Not light brain injuries again!🙄

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🇮🇷This is the "Pickaxe Mountain".
It's made entirely from granite.
The site is 120-150 meters under this mountain.
I doubt even a nuke can do anything to it.

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🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷According to Bloomberg, Andy Burnham has approved the use of ''select'' UK bases for US strikes against Iran.

📝 The Americans will probably try to bomb the base heavily with GBUs, which are aimed at creating seismic shock to kill and damage any life or sensitive instruments inside the base.

The base is also built with shock-isolation design (rubber/spring mounts, decoupled internal structures) to absorb the shock, and its corridors are designed to transfer the shock to deadening walls with shock-absorbing materials. I suggest you guys (If you are interested in materials science or a civil engineer) to read more about underground bases like these, they have some interesting information and ways to minimise and deflect such damage.

And that aside from everything, granite is dense and transmits shock differently than looser sediment. So unless they bury the never-fully-tested US 'Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator' concept and explode it next to the base (Because an air burst nuclear weapon wont do much), or run a 24-hour non-stop bombing campaign, they aren't doing anything huge just like last time.

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It might be also a training routine to use them soon in the Middle East, so don't expect much.