American hardcore military enthusiasts have issued a warning that Iran is adopting an unprecedented strategy, and the Pentagon has been deceived!
Renowned military commentator "Armchair Warlord" recently put forward an idea, stating that the Pentagon may have been misled, as Iran has adopted a new mode of attack, and the US military seems to have fallen into a meticulously designed trap.
In the past, when Iranian ballistic missiles approached, the "THAAD," "Patriot," and Israel's "Arrow" defense systems deployed in the Middle East had to be activated immediately. The radar beams were fully open to lock on and intercept. This activation equated to turning on a flashlight in the dark, precisely exposing their coordinates.
While the radar systems were fully focused on intercepting high-altitude, high-speed ballistic missiles, the real deadly strike came quietly - low-altitude, slow-moving cruise drones. These drones used terrain cover and radar blind spots to directly attack the air defense radar stations that had just revealed their positions.
Within the past week alone, the US military and its allies' air defense network in the Middle East suffered disproportionate losses. According to multiple sources, the loss rate of existing THAAD system radar units was extremely high, and even some large fixed early warning radar facilities were damaged.
This loss caused a chain reaction: Israel's missile warning time was compressed to only a few seconds, meaning their defense systems had almost no window for response; the early warning systems of several major Gulf countries were unreliable, even experiencing near-failure paralysis at times.
Armchair Warlord said that in order to fill these gaps, the US military had to hastily airlift replacement radar equipment from around the world. This hasty scheduling itself indicates the severity of the problem. He also stated that Russia has accumulated massive battlefield data in the Ukraine war, including how to bypass modern air defense radars, how to use electronic warfare interference, and how to plan optimal attack paths. There are strong indications that this data has been shared with Iran.
Dao Ge thinks that if Armchair Warlord's analysis is correct, the aerial defense situation in the Middle East is undergoing a fundamental reversal. The US military's multi-layered air defense system is based on the logic of "radar detecting first, locking first, and intercepting first." Once the radar itself becomes the primary target to be hunted, the entire defense chain will break from the root. In the future, hypersonic missiles or ballistic missiles could serve as decoys, while swarms of drones conduct actual "precision strikes." This is an experience worth learning for all countries.
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