Posted on 04/18/2026 11:49:50 AM PDT by MacNaughton
Reports claim that within 48 hours, four Chinese cargo aircraft switched off their transponders and landed in Iran, allegedly carrying arms and ammunition.
The flights reportedly went dark mid-route before entering Iranian airspace.
This comes shortly after China’s leader reportedly assured President Trump that Beijing would not transfer weapons to Iran.
No official confirmation yet on what these aircraft were carrying.
Developing story.
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Is there an air blockade?
Iran is huge. And they had bad friends. There is very little we can do to stop them from sending gifts. Short of…you know…shooting them down.
Gonna get a big dish of Beef Chow Mein.
Aaaaaoooooh, Werewolves of Tehran.
Wouldnt surprise me if that were true, but who knows, I thought the IDF is watching what is going in and out of Iran
The only thing they could bring that matters are anti-air and anti-ship.
Too bad they didn’t encounter major malfunctions.
does that prevent satellite or radar tracking? What’s the point ?
just because the chinamen recently killed millions upon millions of people with their bat engineered bio virus, does it mean you shouldn’t trust them. That’s racist.
Per the Times of India, this report has not been confirmed and the story appeared after the ChiComs stated they would not supply aid to Iran.
They have to know we have satellites that can see everything they are doing.
Eyes in the sky. We know what enters, offloaded and where it’s transported. These destinations likely house and contain existing munitions. Space Force, baby :)
IS.IT.FINALLY.TIME.TO.HUNT.DOWN.FREE.TRAITORS.AND.GLOBALISTS?
No, it doesn't. The US should let it be known that any aircraft being tracked by satellite, radar, etc. that then turn their transponder off will be shot down - as their intentions are suspicious.
Doesn’t surprise me, but didn’t they promise not to supply Iran with anything a couple of days ago?
I hate to break it to you, but that was OUR bat engineered bio virus, offshored to get around the restrictions that would have prevented it.
Post 2, "And the reason that I should lay awake nights worrying about what Wal-Mart imports is???"
Post 5, "Maybe. Why do I care? Is it illegal? Immoral? Unconstitutional? Would I get a better deal otherwise?"
Post 9, "yeah whatever....just go ahead and bash WalMart. This is how the world works and I kind of like the low prices myself...."
Post 30, "but the pseudo communists always come out of the woodwork in a WalMart thread...." (you have to follow the thread to get this one).
Post 33, this person turned out to be a prophet, "It is gonna be interesting when we need to make tanks to fight the Chinese? We have exported our manufacturing base."
Post 56, "Why is this even important? Why should we care what % of their inventory they import whether it be from China or any other country?"
Post 79, "Translation: I won't answer this because my answer would call for protectionism and this would lead to another debacle along the lines of that which occurred when Smoot-Hawley was enacted to "fix" the economy in the 1930's."
Post 94, in reply to post 79 above, "That sums up the mindset of the Wal-Mart bashing brigade here."
China June trade surplus swells five-fold
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Wonder if they staged in or overflew Afghanistan?
The only problem with blowing up Chinese arms and missiles is, 30 minutes later you wanna do it again.....
The chinese are sloppy. Their “level 4 “ lab had scientist that would go home with bad blood and pee all over their shoes and clothing. They’re just so freaking sloppy and lazy and they just want numbers they want numbers to give to the higher-ups.
No, and I don’t believe any of this. Israel AND the USA with total air superiority, satellites trained on the country, Likely spy planes in the air 24/7 And several cargo planes just wandered in?
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