Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'

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Their Su-24 Fencer bombers are very effective low level attack jets that can esily hit Israel and beyond, not to mention U.S. carrier groups. They on't be the pushover that Iraq was.

The US also has laods of weaponry specifically designed for conventional warfare, especially agianst Svoiety equipment. A B-2 can take off in the US, bomb multiple targets and land without ever stopping for refuelling. As for B-52's, with proper escorts...well, you thought Dresden was bad...

That fact of the matter is, even if Iran had nukes, the US has several thousand warhaeds and ICBMs. Good luck to Iran.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I wouldn't bet on the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force to be superior to, say, what China will be capable of soon. Their "defense" budget is already suspected to be thrice as high as the U.S.'

Plus, they don't engage in pointless wars or costly occupation of and presence in foreign countries nor do they have a Democracy to get in their way.

Irrelevent. Whejn it comes to training and technology, US forces are far superior to those of China. The US also has what is known as power projection - the US can move lots of trips very far distances in a short amount of time, and they're only going to get better at it. The US Navy is capable of sinking the Chinese navy, the USAF is the largest air force in the world, with more training and FAR better equipment than the Chinese. Without air or sea power, I'd like to see how China does against stelath bombers, attack helicopters and huge logisitical problems.

After all of that, they'd have to face not just US forces, but porbably all of those velonging to NATO as well. All of this without their economy being help up by a massive trade defecit and unfair marketing practices.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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And I'd like to see how the U.S. does without the powerhouse manufacturing cache that is China.

The US dooes most of its defence manufacturing in the US, does it not?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Kind of like how Germany outstripped Britain's industrial capacity but could not get past the Royal Navy camping out in the English Channel.


Good luck with the Pacific.

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