I wonder if it is true that some Iranian missiles were made not wholly of metal, but special wood or plastic with just motorcycle engines attached, whose approach to targets sounded just like a harmless motorcycle. Jimmy Dore's website provided this information that I am quoting. Which makes them out-witting radar systems looking for metal reflecting radar signals which does not happen, and fooling radar systems that mistook them for birds. Such materials and composites are going to make radar systems unreliable, just like hypersonic missiles making aircraft carriers vulnerable.
Like the North Vietnamese, Iranians are fighting this war of survival with their head and less dependent on brute force, aerial power and propaganda, which they know cannot match the USA and Israel. The Iranians have come across just as tenacious as the Vietcong, and equally strategic and industrious. More than 40 years of planning, building underground bunkers that continues to produce drones and missiles and stashing them there as well, while bombs landed overhead. Naval missile batteries constructed underground along the length of its coast can take out aircraft carriers and cannot be said to be open to an invasion without recourse.
Iran is prepared for the long haul. Oil prices will continue to go skywards, although some things US$200 a barrel is unlikely. Russia will continue to reap benefits from rising oil prices, a godsend for funding its war in Ukraine. China will be affected, but has already been preparing for this scenario for decades. Moreover, China has managed to shield its transportation sector by going largely electric. Another development has reported that China is using chemical technology to convert coal, which is in abundance, into fuel oil for its manufacturing facilities. In the end, when the release of oil stockpiles cannot go on indefinitely, we will see the shit hitting the fan. We are seeing the aviation sector already facing big problems just two weeks into the war.
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