- U.S. forces disabled the St. Kitts-flagged cargo ship M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman on November 7;
- Explosions were reported on Qeshm Island and in Jask, Sirik and Bandar Abbas along Iran’s southern coast on November 7;
- Three oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines while attempting to navigate restricted routes in the Strait of Hormuz on November 8, according to the IRGC Navy.
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to stop the december 9 attack, iran does not need to shoot down every american plane. they only need to utilize this month-long pause to deploy russian s-400 radars, bury their assets, and hold global subsea data networks hostage. if the cost of the strike includes regional economic collapse and the guaranteed loss of a multi-million dollar stealth fighter, the newly elected u.s. congress will likely force the white house to accept a diplomatic solution instead
• the tactic: passive radar systems do not emit any signals of their own. instead, they read the distortions created in local commercial radio, television, and cellular signals when a stealth aircraft passes through them.
• the effect: because the defense isn’t broadcasting energy, the f-35’s advanced an/asq-239 electronic warfare suite cannot locate or jam the radar source.
jdams or storm breakers the ai shifts from tracking the aircraft to neutralising the weapons mid-flight. bombs cannot be “deactivated” remotely by an enemy via software hackingthe ai calculates the flight path of the dropped bombs high-power ground transmitters to blanket the target area with altered gps signalsthe ai calculates the exact time-delay needed to trick the bomb’s receiver into believing it is hundreds of metres off-course, causing its internal fins to steer the weapon