{"id":27444,"date":"2024-04-14T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=27444"},"modified":"2024-04-16T22:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:25:45","slug":"low-speed-long-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/low-speed-long-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Speed Long Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/041424-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/041424-2.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/041424-2-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/041424-2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/041424-2-462x281.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is new and interesting. The long flight time of the weapons over a significant distance makes information about them a component of the operation. A direct kinetic strike from a sovereign state is a different sort of beast than those that have roamed the neighborhood for decades. Just past dinner time here- in the early zulu hours out there. There is some commentary about the size and duration of the attack and what it means in escalation and in response.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamics are unclear. Do the Mullahs consider this only a retaliation for the Israeli strike on the IRGC in Syria? Are there only relatively conventional small payloads from UAV&#8217;s? A test or demonstration on saturation of Israeli air defenses? Could or will there be some coordination by local proxies?<\/p>\n<p>There is some comment that this may be less than the initial shock, and clearly retaliation is only now being calculated. And what exactly is next?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is new and interesting. The long flight time of the weapons over a significant distance makes information about them a component of the operation. A direct kinetic strike from a sovereign state is a different sort of beast than those that have roamed the neighborhood for decades. Just past dinner time here- in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27447,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions\/27447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}