Not one but two Iranian naval commanders get dirtnapped, more than 10,000 Iranian targets have been hit, Iran getting 12 year olds to join the fight, and claims it’s reinforced Kharg Island.
Highlights:
- Over 10,000 Iranian targets hit. More counting Israeli strikes.
- “We’ve destroyed 92% of the Iranian Navy’s largest vessels.”
- “Iran’s drone and missile launch rates are down over 90%.”
- “Today, we have damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of Iran’s missile, drone, and naval production facilities and shipyards, and we’re not done yet.”
- “Now, in their eighth decade of flight, our B-52 bombers are executing strikes into Iran with up to 70,000 pounds of munitions on each mission.”
Israeli fighter jets, on Tuesday, struck Iran’s main weapons production site. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) described the fortified underground site in the central Iranian city of Isfahan as the regime’s “most central explosives production facility.”
The “Israeli Air Force, acting on IDF intelligence, completed a wide-scale wave of strikes, targeting the Iranian regime’s military-industrial production facilities in Isfahan,” the Israeli military announced Tuesday evening. “The IDF confirms that it struck the most central production site for explosive materials in Iran, where the Iranian regime developed and produced explosive materials for various of weapons.”
Israel had hit the facility extensively last year, but they were trying to rebuild it.
WATCH: Don Lemon: “How do you feel about the war?”
Young Man: “I'm Persian. I support Donald Trump 100%. The Islamic regime kills woman. They killed 50,000 people in two days. A lot of them believe in death [to] all Americans. I 100% support Trump.”
“My dad grew up in Iran. He… pic.twitter.com/9uiYE3ukiM
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) March 26, 2026
(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
Once again, this is just the news I’ve been able to gather on the war. If you think I’ve missed anything, feel free to share below.
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“Today, we have damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of Iran’s missile, drone, and naval production facilities and shipyards, and we’re not done yet.”
The IRGC is effectively cut off from resupply by Russia or China. They have antagonized the Gulf states by targeting them with ballistic missiles. This regime has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own citizens.
When you have earned the enmity of Israel, the USA, Gulf states and your own citizenry while simultaneously being deprived of the means to continue your aggression, your defeat is all but guaranteed. No one is coming to rescue you, certainly not the Twelveth Imman.
The only remaining outcome for IRGC and Basij forces is to surrender or be killed to the last man and the only question is if a “golden bridge” will be offered that allows them a dignified retreat.
“Targeting Basij forces has ceased.”
Better: Targeting Basij forces has been temporarily paused because they have gone into hiding and been rendered moot to the outcome.
According to Habitual Linecrosser, the US has an aircraft that can fly over and close the circuit on any device with an electronic switch, be it garage door opener or IED. I suspect we are threatening to invade Kharg Island to get it loaded with Iranian bombs intended to kill Americans after the invasion. We could then fly over, push a button, and let the facilities bomb themselves.
As for the Chinese experts, I’d be tracing cell phones from the weapons facilities and radars to find out where they are going to ground. Flights back to China are rare and expensive, so I suspect they are congregating somewhere with all that delicious expertise just hoping we don’t find all their cell phone signals.
TWZ posted stills from video of a very lucky F/A-18 just missing destruction by an Iranian MANPAD over Chabahar yesterday:
‘Navy F/A-18’s Close Call With An Iranian SAM Highlights Remaining Risks To Epic Fury Aviators (Updated)’
Even in lower-threat coastal areas, MANPADS are a real risk to lower-flying aircraft, and true air supremacy across Iran still isn’t a reality.
By Thomas Newdick – March 26, 2026
The FA-18 was strafing ground targets with its 20mm Vulcan, just as an A-10 Warthog would. But an A-10 can only pull 4 G’s to evade a MANPAD, while an F/A-18 can pull 9 G’s in the violent corkscrew maneuvers required to evade a MANPAD.
Israel claims to have killed Vahid Shahcheraghi today. This leaves Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha’ed alone in control of Iran, if true.
Can the US identify, train and equip Iranian men living in the US and other Western countries for military service in their home country? Just looking for news on what Iranians are doing for themselves. Reza Pahlavi has not posted on Twitter since 3/23. And there are no statements on his official web site for this entire month.
Video analysis of alleged Rhino evasion.
“Video analysis of alleged Rhino evasion.”
C.W. Lemoine is off by an order of magnitude on MANPADS rocket motor burn times. The slow ones fire for at least 15 seconds to get up to Mach speed. The fast ones, like the Mach 3 Misagh-2, burn 30 seconds or more. Mr. Lemoine is confusing MANPADS with subsonic WW II shoulder fired AT weapons.
This would have been his only valid point. TWZ have actual knowledge of MANPADS.
“[A]n F/A-18 can pull 9 G’s in the violent corkscrew maneuvers required to evade a MANPAD.”
Comrade Cartridge can pull 9Gs of corkscrew Iranian intoxication out of his heady hallucinations. Muslims have demonstrated a penchant for fabricating lies ever since they claimed Mohammed was a true prophet.
“If [the FA-18] had been “G-ed up, two things would have been true: yer gonna be poppin’ flares…and yer gonna get the vapes.”
Neither phenomenon is pictured,. The IRGC is manufacturing fake video of their imagined exploits and CC is feeding those lies to the naifs who think Iran is winning.
“If [the FA-18] had been “G-ed up, two things would have been true: yer gonna be poppin’ flares…and yer gonna get the vapes.”
1) The auto IR flare dispenser system has a detection and dispense lag time which is longer than MANPADS missile flight time at altitudes below 5,000 feet, for a fast MANPADS. This is why USAF planes routinely discharge IR flares when landing in the badlands, without any missile detections. Not enough time for the auto detection system to work.
2) Occurrence of “the vapes” depends upon a high atmosphere dew point relative to temperature, as well as the pressure drop. Iran is a rather arid country just now. Even when it is raining there it is less that 70% RH. “The vapes” are common in temperate and tropical zone atmospheres, but non existent in arid zone atmospheres.
The clown that thinks the A-10 doesn’t have an IR pod and can only pull 4Gs is now telling us that a fighter pilot is off on missile burn times, which was hardly the point being made in the video, while also telling us that an aircraft coming off target was pulling 9Gs to avoid a missile that it doesn’t appear to have ever noticed.
Honestly though, I wasn’t planning on correcting the disinformation, because maybe the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese believe it. I just thought others would enjoy seeing a video rather than a moronic analysis of still images.
“The clown that thinks the A-10 doesn’t have an IR pod and can only pull 4Gs is now telling us that a fighter pilot is off on missile burn times, which was hardly the point being made in the video, while also telling us that an aircraft coming off target was pulling 9Gs to avoid a missile that it doesn’t appear to have ever noticed.”
Read my comments more carefully. Show me a photo – other than an L-M advertisement – of a “Sniper” pod on an A-10. They were never purchased for the A-10. A few A-10s (maybe 12) were equipped with Raphael Litening I pods 20 years ago, but they didn’t work. You can see them on a pylon dropped from the starboard side of the A-10 cockpit. Don’t think they are even operational any more. None at Selfridge.
The only actual A-10 strike video we have from this war is a gun run on Habbaniyah air base in Anbar province. The pilot thought he was strafing targets in Mosul. These gun runs on the Iraqi Army engineering offices and hospital at Habbaniyah killed 13 Iraqi service members and wounded another 13. You think this kind of error would occur with a competent targeting pod?
You don’t accelerate a 7 kg missile to Mach 3 with a 3 to 5 second rocket burn time. This claim conveys an complete and utter insensitivity to engineering reality.
We have no idea how many G’s the F/A-18 pilot was pulling, but he was pulling some G’s. And he had the ability to pull twice as many G’s as an A-10 performing in the same flight envelope. If he wasn’t pulling any G’s, then the whole “yer gonna be poppin’ flares…and yer gonna get the vapes” was even more blatant BS.
TWZ geolocated the video. It takes real experts to fake geolocation data and insinuate it in an AI fake. The video shows an ambiguous outcome, something which no one would waste time creating with AI. No propaganda value. The probability that this video is fake is not zero, but it is damned close to zero.
Clown wrote today: Read my comments more carefully.
Ok, tell me what I got wrong about your comments:
10x25mm says:
March 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The A-10 has no FLIR pod.
In fact, if you include the improvised use of IR Mavericks in Desert Storm, they’ve had 3, 2 purpose built, 1 hanging on the very aircraft in the photo that Centcom used to announce the A-10 in theater. You are wrong and refuse to admit it.
Then we can scroll up.
10x25mm says:
March 27, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Skipping other garbage…
The FA-18 was strafing ground targets with its 20mm Vulcan, just as an A-10 Warthog would. But an A-10 can only pull 4 G’s to evade a MANPAD, while an F/A-18 can pull 9 G’s in the violent corkscrew maneuvers required to evade a MANPAD.
The A-10C official published G load capacity is 7.3G, which it would use to avoid a missile. Operationally, they do fly about 4G, when doing something like pulling off target. Now, if you want to still pretend you know something you don’t, go look at your still images. That F/A-18 had no external weapons store when it was straffing. So, if you want to argue the A-10 can’t pull 7.3Gs with a weapons load; then why are you claiming the Rhino can pull 9Gs? The F/A-18E can’t with external weapons, but it can once it used them, just like an A-10, it can pull more Gs.
You are just pushing false propaganda for whatever purposes, and as I said, I and others are not going to always correct you, because I hope you keep the enemy believing your bullshit. Just know we are laughing at your stupidity like this:
The auto IR flare dispenser system has a detection and dispense lag time which is longer than MANPADS missile flight time
Bitch, if the Rhino was evading the missile pulling 9Gs, the pilot would have been dumbing flares manually. That means the Rhino didn’t attempt to evade the SAM, and therefore your bullshit about Gs is totally irrelevant.
The few pods installed on A-10’s were Rafael Litening I’s, which were not found to be satisfactory and are no longer supported. They were installed before 9/11 and abandoned early in the sandbox wars because their rudimentary FLIR didn’t work. Rafael later upgraded the FLIR in Litening II, but USAF did not purchase it, nor did they purchase the L-M “Sniper”. The A-10 was considered a condemned legacy system in 2015 not worth the expense.
“The A-10C official published G load capacity is 7.3G, which it would use to avoid a missile.”
The +7.3/-3.0 G A-10 capability is symmetrical only. Asymmetrical limit is 4 G’s or less, depending upon load out. If the aircraft is close to its maximum gross weight, the maximum G capability is reduced to +5.0/-2.0 G symmetrical and +4.0/-1.0 G asymmetrical.
The typical missile evasion maneuver is an asymmetrical corkscrew. F-15s and F-18 can pull 9 G’s, regardless of symmetry. There is a good discussion of the A-10’s G capabilities on the DCS board which you might read.
We have no idea how many G’s the F/A-18 pilot was pulling, but he was pulling G’s. He was executing a broad U turn on his side, with his Z axis almost parallel to the ground.