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Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:44 am to KiwiHead
Well, there are about a dozen cuban guards that would disagree. But, all in all, you are correct.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:59 am to AUstar
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As others said, it might not be the failure of the radar itself, but the fact that the U.S. has total cyber supremacy and can cut power anywhere they want beforehand.
From the videos I've watched, it appears the military infected their grid with malware which allowed them to flip the switch instantaneously. Amazing work by those teams.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:53 am to idlewatcher
I'm kind of leaning that there were factions in the Venzuela military that were in on this, but your intel had to be spot on in order for the word not to get out. Or the military saw what was happening and let it go on without much fight. i suspect a whole lot in the military do not like Maduro if most the country was celebrating his ouster.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:54 am to jp4lsu
quote:Maybe that's why the 4 star is still alive and kicking?
I'm kind of leaning that there were factions in the Venzuela military that were in on this, but your intel had to be spot on in order for the word not to get out. Or the military saw what was happening and let it go on without much fight. i suspect a whole lot in the military do not like Maduro if most the country was celebrating his ouster.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:55 am to Reubaltaich
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I read that the F35 was used as a decoy, to provide lots of noise
That's probably the best function it provides.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 8:29 am to j1897
We had Growlers up mapping their air defense radars for weeks. Find the weak points, take out a radar or two and then you have a safe corridor.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 8:46 am to j1897
China supplied Venezuela "anti stealth" radar. Seems it's absolute crap.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 8:59 am to j1897
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Weird source, didn't age well. I do remember China boasting about this crap when they supplied it. Can't target an RQ-170 that's for sure. I feel like china's military might be like Russia's, just complete arse but they never fight anybody to prove it's not.
I have a feeling that we have been helping China get very very arrogant with their radar systems by leaving the prisims or a variant of them, on our stealth aircraft traversing the South China Sea. Purposely letting them believe they have defeated the stealth capabilities.
Seems they may have come back to reality now. And after they have spend a buttload of cash on these systems.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 9:02 am to Flats
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That's probably the best function it provides.
It does that well. First I heard them was in fort Walton where they were flying around the Air Force base down there. Holy crap those things are loud. Makes an F22 sound like a Mazda Miata.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 9:09 am to TigerAxeOK
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and it truly looks like one of if not the most impressive and well planned operations our military has ever pulled off. I'm sure there are many things we've done that were far more impressive comparatively, but it's hard to argue against this being among the most publicly known operations.
Best one in recent history.
Though Operation Fortitude where we staged an entire fake army complete with inflatable tanks and artillery and fake comms to deceive the Germans where we were going to invade on D Day was probably the best one
Posted on 1/5/26 at 10:03 am to j1897
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small arms fire could have definitely done damage to those blackhawks just hovering. But if you're an a-hole dictator that takes everyones guns away, it bites you in the arse.
I don’t think many Venezuelans would be firing at Americans who are going after Maduro.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 10:23 am to j1897
China is a paper tiger. Everyone looks at numbers and graphs and freaks out psyching themselves into believing that China is a military superpower.
They have very little real world combat experience, practically zero large scale operational experience, ZERO blue water naval experience.... there's a reason they chirp all the time but don't actually do shite. They just lost a huge anchor point, weapons importer, and source of crude oil after we took out Maduro.
The biggest threat posed by China comes from their intelligence community, which has compromised FAR too many Western institutions & leaders.
One thing we do need to do though is reestablish our ship manufacturing industry. We still have the most powerful navy on the planet, but if we were to enter a kinetic war over, let's say Taiwan, and take losses, we don't have the manufacturing capacity & infrastructure to quickly repair losses & build new ships.
I mean hell, even our ammunition stockpiles from bullets to artillery shells to missiles are largely depleted, much of it lost because we stupidly shipped it to Ukraine and then had to protect our "ally" Israel after they bit off more than they could chew with Iran.
Russia is more competent but can't project their power in a way that is a threat to us. People give them shite for taking so long with Ukraine, but Putin has run that war VERY conservatively and the Russians have literally been fighting not just Ukraine, but all of NATO including the US the entire time and coming out on top.
They have very little real world combat experience, practically zero large scale operational experience, ZERO blue water naval experience.... there's a reason they chirp all the time but don't actually do shite. They just lost a huge anchor point, weapons importer, and source of crude oil after we took out Maduro.
The biggest threat posed by China comes from their intelligence community, which has compromised FAR too many Western institutions & leaders.
One thing we do need to do though is reestablish our ship manufacturing industry. We still have the most powerful navy on the planet, but if we were to enter a kinetic war over, let's say Taiwan, and take losses, we don't have the manufacturing capacity & infrastructure to quickly repair losses & build new ships.
I mean hell, even our ammunition stockpiles from bullets to artillery shells to missiles are largely depleted, much of it lost because we stupidly shipped it to Ukraine and then had to protect our "ally" Israel after they bit off more than they could chew with Iran.
Russia is more competent but can't project their power in a way that is a threat to us. People give them shite for taking so long with Ukraine, but Putin has run that war VERY conservatively and the Russians have literally been fighting not just Ukraine, but all of NATO including the US the entire time and coming out on top.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 10:58 am to trinidadtiger
F35s can act as an AWACS itself. It is able to relay target and threat data to ships and other aircraft. That is one of the more important abilities of the f35.
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