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what they’re using is the missile inventory from 2012, 2013 at the moment. Very old missiles and simple drones and their purpose is to deplete or to force Israel and the Gulf States to deplete their intercept capacities, which they are doing.
"..And what we see now is that the Gulf ability to intercept even drones is almost zero. I think Qatar still has some intercept capabilities in the Al Udeid American base there. But otherwise, they are flying freely. Iranian drones are flying freely over Doha and Dubai and they are attacking bases right across the Gulf, particularly in Bahrain.
It’s very focused on Bahrain, which houses, it hosts the 5th Fleet, the port, but it hosts an array of intelligence and other areas. So they’ve used these drones and missiles to take out the eyes of the United States.
So they have destroyed these very expensive radar capabilities. About four or five of them, sometimes they cost more than a billion dollars each, but all of these are being systematically destroyed. The only radar capability probably is in Israel at this moment, but the Gulf has lost all its radar capabilities.
They weren’t Gulf, these were big radars that could see 500 miles. They were part of the most sophisticated element of the American, if you like, ability to project a battlescape digitally and through their satellites and through their radar systems in a joint approach.
So that was what they were using those drones for to begin with. And they’d said and they’d warned, although it seems to have taken the West by surprise, but Iran was very explicit and said the first focus will be on American bases in the Gulf, in the Persian Gulf. And subsequently they have started and they’ve been moving carefully, still using mainly older missiles.
These ones from made that were made 20 years ago, some of them 2012, 2013 using these older missiles. But now they’ve just moved to the later ones and the later ones are devastating. I’m talking about the Khorramshahr-4, for example, which is a hypersonic missile. It flies at Mach 14. It has multiple submunition warheads in it, which are steerable and like it’s a multiple arrival of 80 of these small, if you like, warheads.
But each of these has a warhead of about nearly 20 kilos. So they’re not huge bombs, but they’re really significant. But if you have 80 of these arriving together, they come more or less bunched, but they come bunched within, say, a radius of about 15 to 16 kilometers total, so wide area. And it’s like being shelled, artillery shelled, by 80 guns at the same time. So it’s very, it’s devastating. And the Israelis, it seems, from all the evidence we see that they cannot down missiles that are traveling at a speed above Mach 4.
So they are not being able to destroy those. They can take down some of the slower missiles, but those slower missiles were fired precisely to draw on the intervening, the ability to fire intervention missiles to try and bring down those.
It’s also very evident that Israel is now using those in prodigious quantities. You can see from some of the videos that have gotten through the censorship that as the Iranian missiles come in, Israel is firing perhaps eight, 10, 12 intercept missiles to try and bring it down. That cannot go on for very long.
Their stocks of these intercept missiles was low after the Twelve-Day War in June. It hasn’t been fully restored because America doesn’t have many of these intercept missiles. And so there will come a time when they will run out. And this is why you see now Iran using fewer missiles, because they say we don’t have to use more because we fire one missile now and it takes down what remains of the intercept capacity of Israel.
So that is why that is what the missiles are. And the Iranians say they also have newer missiles, which they will show and unfold at a later stage. They haven’t reached that stage yet, but that is waiting to be used and deployed at the right moment. They’re quite comfortable that they have huge missile stocks that they can continue for a long war.
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what they’re using is the missile inventory from 2012, 2013 at the moment. Very old missiles and simple drones and their purpose is to deplete or to force Israel and the Gulf States to deplete their intercept capacities, which they are doing.
"..And what we see now is that the Gulf ability to intercept even drones is almost zero. I think Qatar still has some intercept capabilities in the Al Udeid American base there. But otherwise, they are flying freely. Iranian drones are flying freely over Doha and Dubai and they are attacking bases right across the Gulf, particularly in Bahrain.
It’s very focused on Bahrain, which houses, it hosts the 5th Fleet, the port, but it hosts an array of intelligence and other areas. So they’ve used these drones and missiles to take out the eyes of the United States.
So they have destroyed these very expensive radar capabilities. About four or five of them, sometimes they cost more than a billion dollars each, but all of these are being systematically destroyed. The only radar capability probably is in Israel at this moment, but the Gulf has lost all its radar capabilities.
They weren’t Gulf, these were big radars that could see 500 miles. They were part of the most sophisticated element of the American, if you like, ability to project a battlescape digitally and through their satellites and through their radar systems in a joint approach.
So that was what they were using those drones for to begin with. And they’d said and they’d warned, although it seems to have taken the West by surprise, but Iran was very explicit and said the first focus will be on American bases in the Gulf, in the Persian Gulf. And subsequently they have started and they’ve been moving carefully, still using mainly older missiles.
These ones from made that were made 20 years ago, some of them 2012, 2013 using these older missiles. But now they’ve just moved to the later ones and the later ones are devastating. I’m talking about the Khorramshahr-4, for example, which is a hypersonic missile. It flies at Mach 14. It has multiple submunition warheads in it, which are steerable and like it’s a multiple arrival of 80 of these small, if you like, warheads.
But each of these has a warhead of about nearly 20 kilos. So they’re not huge bombs, but they’re really significant. But if you have 80 of these arriving together, they come more or less bunched, but they come bunched within, say, a radius of about 15 to 16 kilometers total, so wide area. And it’s like being shelled, artillery shelled, by 80 guns at the same time. So it’s very, it’s devastating. And the Israelis, it seems, from all the evidence we see that they cannot down missiles that are traveling at a speed above Mach 4.
So they are not being able to destroy those. They can take down some of the slower missiles, but those slower missiles were fired precisely to draw on the intervening, the ability to fire intervention missiles to try and bring down those.
It’s also very evident that Israel is now using those in prodigious quantities. You can see from some of the videos that have gotten through the censorship that as the Iranian missiles come in, Israel is firing perhaps eight, 10, 12 intercept missiles to try and bring it down. That cannot go on for very long.
Their stocks of these intercept missiles was low after the Twelve-Day War in June. It hasn’t been fully restored because America doesn’t have many of these intercept missiles. And so there will come a time when they will run out. And this is why you see now Iran using fewer missiles, because they say we don’t have to use more because we fire one missile now and it takes down what remains of the intercept capacity of Israel.
So that is why that is what the missiles are. And the Iranians say they also have newer missiles, which they will show and unfold at a later stage. They haven’t reached that stage yet, but that is waiting to be used and deployed at the right moment. They’re quite comfortable that they have huge missile stocks that they can continue for a long war.
Hedges Report: Imperial Overreach
So far, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. While the official White House X account posts video montages featu
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