Brandon Weikert

They have.

and a lot of sort of supporting role but it was really the israelis who did a lot of standoff weapons a lot of standoff attacks bvr attacks and they clipped a lot of irgc commanders so there's no doubt that the us and israelis have destroyed a lot of the regime's leadership but we've not gotten the kill shot in yet and i think that we're still going for that but we haven't gotten it yet these the iranians meanwhile are also trying to get insignificant kill shots they've gotten some hits

But we've been able to sustain them so far.

I want to make it also very clear.

The majority of these strikes have been done, as far as I can tell, from beyond visual range, which is very interesting because it indicates that we are still concerned about the Iranian overall air defense systems.

We've certainly degraded it, but we haven't finished it off yet.

Another issue is related to those ballistic missile strikes or attempted ballistic missile strikes on the carrier.

I was told yesterday and I'm still trying to confirm this, but if it's true and I think it might be if Cameron wants to pull up that satellite photo I sent him before we got going.

Basically, there's an open source intelligence group.

They took satellite photos of, there it is, of Bandar Abbas, and they identified many of Iran's diesel electric submarines.

There's one missing, which is a Fatah-class air-independent propulsion diesel electric submarine.

And I was reporting at 1945.com last week that that single submarine is a very significant threat to the carrier group because in 25 years of war games, the U.S.

Navy has shown that it cannot always detect diesel electric submarines within torpedo range.

of the carrier.

And I was told that last night or in the last 24 hours, and it's related to those ballistic missiles, Steve, that the Iranians attempted to, with that submarine, get torpedo hits into the carrier USS

Abraham Lincoln, and our carrier group managed to sink the submarine.

Now, that is not confirmed, but as I wrote at 1945.com last week, if the Iranians really wanted to try to hit the carrier, they're going to need to do both ballistic missile swarms plus the diesel-electric attempted attack.

So it looks like this might be connected to that.

Thus far, the Iranians have not gotten in that conflict.

Yeah, no, that's very key.