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    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68014882
    Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into Iran…


    It’s getting so that a program will soon be needed to tell who’s playing!
    Who’s allied with whom? Who’s fighting whom?





    When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin

  • #2
    First time in history J10s have seen combat. Not impressive.
    Chimo

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
      First time in history J10s have seen combat. Not impressive.
      Sir, where did you find the info on the J10s?
      “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
      Mark Twain

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      • #4
        I'm not sure this is spillover from the Gaza-Israeli War. It seems it's simply contemporaneous. Iran went after a separatist group in Pakistan that has nothing to do with the Israeli-Gaza conflict. Things have escalated since, but the Houthis in weeks past said they are targeting ships that are Israeli-owned and transiting to/from Israel, and Iran struck a building in Iraqi Kurdistan that they claim was a Mossad base of operations or something. But I don't see the Israel connection in these strikes in Pakistan.
        "Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Albany Rifles View Post
          Sir, where did you find the info on the J10s?
          Sorry, forgot the link

          https://www.eurasiantimes.com/pakist...atory-attacks/

          7 people reportedly killed, none of the BLF leadership. Real bad targetting.

          Chimo

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Ironduke View Post
            Iran went after a separatist group in Pakistan that has nothing to do with the Israeli-Gaza conflict. ... But I don't see the Israel connection in these strikes in Pakistan.
            It's Pakistan striking targets in Iran but I agree, nothing to do with Israel.
            Chimo

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            • #7
              Neither side has anything to gain from escalating the situation further, not with all the other serious economic, political and social crises they have on their plates currently. They've had their dick measuring contest so I expect things should settle back down now. Until the next time.

              The Middle East. SNAFU.
              If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
                It's Pakistan striking targets in Iran but I agree, nothing to do with Israel.
                Iran did a missile strike in Pakistan a few days before Pakistan struck a target in Iran. It was tit-for-tat.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_I...es_in_Pakistan
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operat..._Bar_Sarmachar
                "Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."

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                • #9
                  The US Navy carrier strike group centered on the USS Eisenhower is headed home to Norfolk Naval Base. She and her battlegroup have been extended twice with only one port visit. She has been engaged in actions against the Houthi government in Yemen and protecting shipping in the Red Sea. She and her cohorts have been in the longest sustained combat operations for the Navy since World War 2. Her air group has been shooting down drones and striking Houthi targets for months and all air defense systems were also used to engage ballistic missiles and cruise missiles aimed at shipping. Additionally many surface contacts were attacked and sunk. Her captain is CAPT Chris "Chowdah" Hill, a Naval Flight Officer and a native of Quincy, MA. He and I from about 2 miles apart south of Boston. His callsign is a hat tip to his broad Boston accent. His Twitter account has been a great follow...not only great action shots but he has had a great bit for keeping up morale...a daily ship's hero from a junior member of the ship's crew. They get called to the bridge, get placed in the captain's chair (sacred territory) and given some cookies! Their photo is placed on social media with a message to their family and a brief synopsis of their great service. True achievers also get to take a turn at the ships helm manning the ship's wheel...a high honor indeed!

                  Ike carrier heads home as Houthi attacks continue in the Red Sea (navytimes.com)


                  Ike carrier heads home as Houthi attacks continue in the Red Sea

                  By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
                  Sunday, Jun 23, 2024




                  The U.S. military has ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the aircraft carrier leading America’s response to the Houthi attacks, to return home after a twice-extended tour. (Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/U.S. Navy)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the aircraft carrier leading America’s response to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, is returning home after an over eight-month deployment in combat that the Navy says is its most intense since World War II.

                  The San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt will take the Eisenhower’s place after a scheduled exercise in the Indo-Pacific, said Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on Saturday.






                  The Roosevelt anchored Saturday in Busan, South Korea, amid Seoul’s ongoing tensions with North Korea.

                  The Eisenhower, based in Norfolk, Virginia, had already reached the Mediterranean Sea, said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ship movements. Flight-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press showed a Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopter associated with the Eisenhower flying above the Mediterranean just off the coast of Port Said, Egypt, on Saturday night.

                  The Eisenhower, which had its deployment extended twice, had repeatedly been targeted by false attack claims by the Houthis during its time in the Red Sea. Saree on Saturday night claimed another attack on the carrier — but again provided no evidence to support it as the ship already had left the area. Central Command called the claim “categorically false.”

                  Meanwhile, an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden but apparently caused no damage, authorities said Saturday, in the latest strike on the shipping lane by the group.

                  The Houthi attack comes after the sinking this week of the merchant vessel Tutor. Sailors from the Ike carrier strike group airlifted the Tutor’s crew to safety prior to its sinking.

                  The Tutor’s sinking marked what appears to be a new escalation by the Iranian-backed Houthis in their campaign of strikes on ships in the vital maritime corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

                  The captain of the ship targeted late Friday saw “explosions in the vicinity of the vessel,” the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. A later briefing by the U.S.-overseen Joint Maritime Information Center said the vessel initially reported two explosions off its port side and a third one later.

                  “The vessel was not hit and sustained no damage,” the center said. “The vessel and crew are reported to be safe and are proceeding to their next port of call.”

                  The Houthis, who have held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since 2014, claimed the attack Saturday night. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, identified the vessel targeted as the bulk carrier Transworld Navigator.

                  The U.S. military separately destroyed three drone boats in the Red Sea over the last day, Central Command said.

                  The Houthis have launched more than 60 attacks targeting specific vessels and fired off other missiles and drones in their campaign that has killed a total of four sailors. They have seized one vessel and sunk two since November. A U.S.-led airstrike campaign has targeted the Houthis since January, with a series of strikes May 30 killing at least 16 people and wounding 42 others, the rebels say.

                  In March, the Belize-flagged Rubymar carrying fertilizer became the first to sink in the Red Sea after taking on water for days following a rebel attack.

                  The Houthis have maintained that their attacks target ships linked to Israel, the United States or Britain. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the Israel-Hamas war.
                  “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
                  Mark Twain

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