Five US Air Force refueling planes hit in Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia, WSJ reports

Even if it’s not over, at least we don’t have to worry about the Strait of Hormuz any longer, according to Hegseth.

Jokes aside, this honestly sounds a LOT like what happened between Russia and Ukraine. Russia said, bum rush and we win. 4 years later they are still fighting.

Yeah, that's why they're sending up to 5,000 marines. That's what you do when the war is "pretty much done". It's such a weird feeling being like "yeah, the Iranian regime sucks but on some level I kind of hope the US and Israel get their shit pushed in!"

I’m starting to feel like I was lied to. 

I don’t want them anywhere

He thinks acting like a tough movie character is leading. The man is LARPing with our lives.

Not just a Fox News host, a moronic drunkard- Fox News host. The best of the best.

Probably less than a month.

Nah he'll get reshuffled like the gnome lady with the melting face. He'll become an advisor or something I'm sure. If he fires him then the question will be 'why did you hire an incompetent buffoon, and furthermore why didnt you fire him when he made a laughingstock of you the first time around?'

These clowns have made a mockery out of the US military. Had 0.001% of this shit happen under Biden, they would have called for his lynching. Un f****** believable. It’s like they drafted a plan to attack Iran on a Friday night and started executing it on Saturday morning. F****** losers.

Why do I feel like he would appoint Lindsey Graham to be secretary of defense

Wait, remember what we got for firing Noem. It got worse. How could it get worse here? Oh God. Oh now. Why god why. Why did I see. FFS. Why was Jake Paul in the news.

Stephen Miller can gtfo too

Someone more incompetent will take his place. Judging by recent appointments, the replacement will probably be a 23 year old with a podcast and a LinkedIn Premium account. Department of Homeland Security already put 22 year old Thomas Fugate, in charge of its violent-extremism prevention office, so apparently experience is now optional.

Can we start taking pictures of him again then?

Sounds like they had at least 5 left

Ukraine also doesn't have the cards

Iran is about to be America's new Vietnam

Diddlin' Donnie also assured us that the non-war was "very complete".

As in, literally doing nothing would've avoided it

It was reported Iran agreed via negotiations with us and Omani negotiators to a deal that was even better than the JCPOA Obama did, and after agreeing to this we struck them. Much like he killed solemani during negotiations

I f****** dare a journalist to inquire about his sobriety next media briefing 

The worst part of his conferences or how obvious it is that he spent a long time dressing himself, doing his hair, picking out his tie, deciding which suit he should wear, gazing at himself in the mirror etcetera etcetera. This dude is the biggest metrosexual on planet earth

His incompetence is amplified by the fact that he fired over 20 high ranking, highly competent generals and admirals because they were too woke or something. This included the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the agency responsible for assessing foreign militaries’ capabilities. The reason he fired that person was because the agency’s analysis showed that the first Iran attack in 2025 only set back their nuclear program by six months, not forever, which is now apparently the official determination (in an insane doublethink kind of way)justifying our current engagement with Iran. So now we have incompetent people Hegseth appointed to replace them. It’s exactly what happens all the time when you put a shitty person at the top of an organization. They are threatened by competent people under them, dispose of those people, and replace them with lackeys. Only this organization is the most powerful military on Earth.

Sadly, it is going to be more a case of "Fatality".

Trump promised that if i voted for Kamala, we’d end up going to war. he was right

MAGA answer: they were gonna NOOK us and they are all terrorists! Real answer: Oil $$$, Israeli influence, and another convenient distraction from the Trumpstein files

MAGA response I legit got: “What war?”

Because he didn't get his Peace Prize, so he doesn't have to think about peace any longer.

More than 500 million I’ll be honest with you.

Damn sorry St. Jude can't get these kids surgery we need to refuel our jets for a not-war

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Nobody told them the war was over and they were almost ready to surrender.

It seems that Trump/Hegspeth have been more concerned about the QUANTITY of bombings than the QUALITY of them.

Air superiority means nothing if the planes are on the ground!

The Russians are feeding them intelligence info.

Time is genuinely on their side. They can hide drones/mines in buildings saving them and building more in nondescript warehouses for a month while the USAF flies around fecklessly wasting airframe hours without targets, all while gas prices skyrocket and morale plummets.

I have worked with Iranian engineers, they were all really capable. I always dreaded the idea that the U.S. might attack Iran someday. That day has arrived, unfortunately.

> A girls school got bombed in the process; whether the US or Israel bombed it or whether it was a stray Iranian bomb [It was definitely a US Bomb.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/iran-war-missile-strike-elementary-school)

Apart from the ballistic missiles, Iraq was supposed to be better armed back in 1991 (unless you discard that because Iraq started it). They actually managed to get a larger number of coalition aircraft down.

They do have shockingly good intel. Hitting soldiers in specific hotels is crazy work

The US is now lifting sanctions on Russia, a country that is actively helping Iran attack American assets, to alleviate spiking oil and gas prices caused by the US's decision to start this war. Nothing makes sense anymore.

good thing we dropped sanctions on their oil. Masterwork on display by the executive branch

That was my thought, too. There’s a little chance that they knew that they were there on their own. Russia or China most likely dropped that intel to them.

Um yeah no shit. WTF would you expect them not to do that after the US has been actively helping ukraine w/ satelite data + military intelligence in their own invasion of ukraine, for years? Like I’d probably be pretty sure Russia isn’t like just literally circling a few AWACS aircraft in the caspian, just outside the border from iran / tehran, and feeding them live 24/7 radar data for anti-air targeting (not that iran could even do much with that lol if they did) But if they did they would literally be entirely within their rights to do that, without any direct war involvement or war declaration. The US again has done as much w/r ukraine since the 2022 invasion. And this is speaking mind you as an american who is 100% pro ukraine. Heck if the US lost pilots due to that that would be our govt (ie trump’s) fault. This war is flat out illegal and utterly unconstitutional to begin with, for chrissake. Congress is supposed to vote on this shit for a f—ing reason. Ditto setting budgets *and directly controlling military expenses* etc. We are (in theory) a representative democracy, not an autocracy. Not that mind you congress didn’t willfully sign most of that away under bush jr, and prior. And pretty much refuse thus far to claw ANY of that back

I bet Russia would score an assist on this one... What a shit show

Most casual observers don't understand how bad it is to have 5 tankers eliminated. Ofc US has plenty more but will take time for them to be repositioned. Iran will likely use this as an opportunity to exploit gaps in air coverage and launch more attacks.

Logistics win wars. Take out the refuelers, that disrupts every possible airstrike

We lost 7 of them in 24h lol Lol at how badly this is going no lols for the aircrews that died

The other team seems to have leadership with a working strategy. Our guys have nothing but weak public relations spin.

For the last 10 years.... its mind bending

Nope, and there are automatic cuts to it once it starts paying out more than it takes in. Easily fixed, but you know, we just can't afford it while we fight Israel's wars or if the banks, fortune500, or billionaires need tax cuts. Priorities ya know.

Retire!? That's funny.

If by "Iran" you mean, "US taxpayers" then, yeah. 

No, Qatar pays for planes. Mexico pays for walls. Iran pays for the Epstein files.

Not that I give a shit about iranian government or their ideology or beliefs, but hegseth is a particular islam hater. I think he thinks this is a cruisade and he is blood thirsty. He doesn't strike me as pragmatic at all, which a secretary of defense should f****** be. He's being all kinds of idealistic in the worst possible way. Playing a game of war on an ideological level like a 12 year old. He's going to sacrifice everyone for his stupid war.

"We accidentally flew into the path of enemy fire"

>Also have you noticed a lot of the headlines lately have been “accidents” up to this point in our jets and ships? Could also just be pointing to a poorly planned operation that wasn't properly rehearsed

The article says they are being repaired, so the damage might not be as extensive, IDK we will see

They didn’t think they’d dare … the fear of getting killed kept leadership in line. Turns out executions don’t make people surrender but rather fight like hell? Who knew … regardless of how shitty they are attacking them in the middle of negotiations and threatening certain death pushed to the point of no return . We are literally Japan in 1941, we are the baddies and we’re paving our downfall on good intentions. God help us if we have to invade that mountainous country … 

4D chess... in their eyes.