When Manchester United won the treble in 1999, they were only the fourth club to do so since the 1966/67 season. Seven trebles have now been won by four different clubs (plus City) in the last seventeen seasons alone; Barca, Inter, Bayern, PSG.
The scale of the achievement is not the same that it was anymore, because the parity across European has never been less due to the financial power of Europe's rich list. A treble, once a rarity & a feat, is now becoming an every other season occurrence.
Footage from Iran shows the location where the U.S. reportedly destroyed two disabled C-130 aircraft during the rescue mission for the downed F-15E weapons systems officer in southwestern Iran.
The other 9 teams let RCB get Tim David and Romario Shepherd both for a combined less than 5 crore. Lol.
And guess which team had both.
They say right when they say half the battle is won at the auction. RCB look unstoppable again.
Anyone else think the whole story about C-130s getting stuck in the sand is a lie ?
They also lost a little bird helicopter in the same location which makes that story even less believable.
NEW:
🇺🇸🇮🇷Clear marks of bullets or air bursts on the C-130 Hercules aircraft airframe that crashed in Iran last night.
This is likely the damage that caused the aircrafts to crash.
So the C-130 transporters were shot down by local villagers with rifles
If we consider the two MC-130J involved and the four Little Birds, we would be talking about 100–140 special operations troops involved, just from these units alone.
How many other units returned undamaged, and how many men were they carrying? This raises further suspicions about the real objective of this operation.
So far, I have been working with the hypothesis of a pilot rescue operation.
However, given the number of aircraft involved and the location, I am considering that this may have been more than just that. Two fixed-wing aircraft and four helicopters may have been shot down.
How many were actually able to turn back and return safely?
We could be looking at a failed attempt to establish a forward basing inside Iran.
Although this version still lacks solid evidence, I will wait to address it further if more indications emerge.
2. It was bloody expensive in terms of equipment losses the risk to highly-capable forces, and arguably, the time/effort that goes into resourcing. It won’t scale in a peer conflict.
Two ways to looking at the American SAR operation:
1. It was, in and of itself, brilliant: in terms of prep, training, planning, co-ordination, audacity, etc. etc. It shows the lengths to which the US will go to rescue downed aircrews.
One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday.
These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.
Things are not adding up :
As per Fox News : The CIA ran a deception campaign, leaking plans of a maritime exfiltration to draw Iranian forces away from the area where the downed F-15 crew member was located; officials say it worked.
- If it worked, why I am seeing debris of 2 x C130s and a Little Bird?
- Why RT is reporting that the pilot is rescued but cannot travel due to serious wounds?
- How did the evacuation happened as a C130 carries around 80 troops?
- There is a video of what it seems a black hawk getting down. What happened there?
- Why there are decently big sharpnel hit marks near engine areas of C130 if a drone was neutralizing targets within 3kms of the pilot's position and decepton was working?
- Are Iranians that stupid that they will send all of their units because of CIAs deception?
I am sure I will see 3-4 different versions of this story one year down the line.
Twitter is full of C-130J, mud, Iran etc.
Here's video of Indian Air Force landing a C-130J on unpaved runway at Daulat Beg Oldie Airstrip in ladakh.
It's World highest airbase at 16,700 ft altitude bordering China.