Comment Re:Pointless gesture (Score 1) 71
As for "advanced weapons", the US has blown up a primary school in Iran
The school is literally in the corner part of an IRGC base. Nobody knows shit at this point about who/what hit it or why. It is fair to assume if not for Trump starting a war this attack would not have happened. To go beyond and speak of weapons is just wild guessing as there is 0 publicly available information at this point.
These "advanced weapons" are proving useless in Ukraine, as the Russians figured out over a weekend how to jam the guidance systems. Advanced crap is still crap.
While EW is fundamentally a cat and mouse game the characterization "proving useless" in Ukraine is absurd.
There were initially issues with low cost GLSDB. That kit was successfully reworked to address them. Excalibur while degraded by EW was ultimately done in by cost, availability and other tools that filled the same needs. JDAMs, GMLRS, ATACMS are still very effective even if some categories are limited by availability.
Against this, the British have used aircraft with far less advanced weapons to blow up specific floors in specific buildings - something way way outside the capacity of the US. The day your "advanced weapons" in the hands of imbeciles can match crude weapons in the hands of actual experts is the day you get to tell us about these "advanced weapons".
In a peer contest between an imbecile firing off a standoff weapon and a skilled expert the imbecile is going to live longer and be more successful.