Agreed. That, to me, is rather surprising. I just assumed NATO military tech would have completely outclassed any of the Iranian armaments.
“I just assumed NATO military tech would have completely outclassed any of the Iranian armaments.”
So did the rest of the country, including the leadership, of BOTH parties. They got ARROGANT and full of HATRED towards Russia and, to to a lesser extent (regarding hatred) towards China.
In other words they literally FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, and while Russia and China spent the past 30 years MODERNIZING, using Western technology (often including Westerners themselves), to push them Forward, and forward to the point where even a second-rate country, Iran, is now able to pulverize our hardware with their munitions.
...and that is one of the main reasons that I’m anti-war against Russia and China. It’s not 1990 anymore, we’re not picking fights with the Third World anymore, and we just may not do quite as well as we may think.
We have A LOT of work to do on the military end (starting with the doubling of the size of our Navy and getting rid of the wokeness) if we want to again be a serious player militarily, compared to the rest of the world...and so far, at least, I see ZERO effort in that direction.
Hopefully that changes.