Oman is the real “do nothing, win” country.

Current known tally of losses from this series of rescue operations:

• 1x F-15E destroyed
• 2x HH-60 helicopters damaged
• 1x A-10 destroyed
• 2x C-130 destroyed
• 1-2x MQ-9s destroyed

WIA on the HH-60s, the A-10 pilot, the WSO from the F-15E

Possible damage/speculative:

• 1x F-16 squawking emergency yesterday (RTB)
• 1x KC-136 squawking emergency yesterday (RTB)
• • 1x A-10 emergency landing (dubious)

I know some people will be disappointed Iran didn’t achieve more during all this, but all in all I think that’s a good trade for 1 pilot and 1 weapons systems officer.

CH-47 ‘Chinook’ destroyed by Iranian drones in Kuwait.

npr has confirmed that 2 E-3 Sentry were "damaged" in strike on Prince Sultan on the 29th of March. This includes the one we saw a photo of with the radome and entire rear section destroyed, hopefully the other one is just as damaged. This means that the US is down to only 14 operational E-3 Sentry aircraft and only 4 in theater. This plus the other damaged aircraft (The highest numbers I've seen have been 2 C-130H and 7 KC-135R damaged, although I think the consensus is that around 5 KC-135R were damaged) at Prince Sultan will likely cause the US to reconsider using the base to host valuable air assets, but relocating will decrease sortie rates and increase stress on flight and maintenance crews.

The IRGC published footage showing their air defences shooting down two us MQ-9 "Reaper" drones over the city of Isfahan, central Iran, overnight.

From the Iranian Embassy in South Africa:

Remember these two criminals. Leigh R. Tate, the commander, and Jeffrey E. York, the executive officer of the USS Spruance, who ordered the launch of Tomahawk missiles three times, killing 168 innocent children at a school in Minab. Don’t they have children of their own?

The Beijing-Pyongyang international passenger train will resume service on March 12th after a 6 year hiatus.

Satellite imagery suggests that a fire broke out near the communications headquarters of the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer after it was attacked by Iran. (Source)

US air defenses fail at Al Udeid base in Qatar. You can hear us troops shitting their pants after the AD missile misses.

I wish I was able to spin my school shooting suviorship into a high paying job in the Democratic Party, but I only got depression and ptsd

I don't know if anyone else here has posted about this yet, but in more 'pulling the copper wiring out of the wall' news, the Boer has decided to take down several important data from the CDC and Census websites. These include, but are not limited to, data from CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). This data is very important for a lot of research and long term planning. I was still able to access CDC PLACES data by using a direct link to the download page, so it is not yet entirely gone. It seams from this article that CDC employees think that the data will eventually return, after it has been altered to become 'politically correct', but I think it would be best to expect them to never return. Much of the data is also still available from 3rd party data conglomeration, although at an extremely high cost for personal use.

Don’t forget to fill out your apology forms folks!