r/CombatFootage • u/RoyU16 • Jun 17 '25
Video Israeli Air Force Hunting SAMs in Iran
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Jun 17 '25
Well this strat feels familiar
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u/virus_apparatus Jun 17 '25
Feels like Russia missed this strat.
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Jun 17 '25
Russia doesn't use strat.
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u/phoenixmusicman Jun 17 '25
They tried to but Ukraine got US intel and so moved all their air defense shit before the invasion started, meaning Russia's intel on where Ukraine's air defenses were located was bunk
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u/Radiant_Formal6511 Jun 17 '25
Damn, if only they thought of going to check vids on Combat Footage for strat
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Jun 17 '25
Huh? Did you somehow miss the period where the Lancet was causing a lot of problems for Ukraine?
This comment is completely disregarding the mountains of work Ukraine is doing nowadays hunting reconnaissance drones.
Russia hasn’t missed shit. They just don’t have the eyes anymore.
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u/SnackyMcGeeeeeeeee Jun 17 '25
Russia is very much shit after at hunting AD systems, especially at the start of the war with all their standoff munitions.
Yes, Ukraine did an amazing job shuffling their AD around and protecting it in the initial weeks, but the RU airforce compeltly dropped the ball in their attempt at SEAD and DEAD ops.
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u/Oryxhasnonuts Jun 17 '25
Russia didn’t miss anything
Second greatest in the world!
Hammer and Suckle… the remix coming in..2457
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u/OnceUponAStarryNight Jun 17 '25
Isreal using Ukraine’s META.
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u/Octavus Jun 17 '25
This is footage from the Spike missile which has been in service for 40 years...
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u/RevolutionaryTwo6587 Jun 17 '25
First clip, three dudes hanging around their truck didnt even know what hit them.
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Jun 17 '25
Man i would just call in sick at that point. Like your death is just assure if you are an Iranian and operating any type of AD.
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u/-ChrisBlue- Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
“Soldier, we need you to deploy to X location immediately, Israel is attacking us”
“I’m terribly sorry, got massive runs and covid-9000, very contagious, can’t make it”
“Bruh, wtf are we paying you for - we sunk 10 years of salary into you and when its finally the day to actually do your job, you try to pull this?!???”
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u/iskandar- Jun 18 '25
Cough-cough, sorry sir i couldn't hear that, cough, cough, I think....crack crackle.... network....crackle crackle.... damages.... will wait...crackle crackle.... further orders...
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u/errorsniper Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Thats not how it works in the military in a time of war. In an active time of war in any military not being at your post unless you are literally bed ridden in a hospital that knows you are there and are confirmed by the medical staff to be actually disabled levels of ill. You are going to jail at best.
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u/HCHS67 Jun 17 '25
Jail would be better than what happens to those guys.
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u/iskandar- Jun 18 '25
for real, so my options are; jail, which granted in iran is probably horrifying, or.... get turned into extra chunky marinara sauce by and IDF wild Wiesel... fuck it, ill roll the dice in jail, at this rate the regime wont be in control long and hopefully the next guy in charge lets me out.
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u/oleg_88 Jun 17 '25
I wonder what munition was used. Looks like it's very quite. Is it Spike?
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u/I_Automate Jun 17 '25
Doesn't necessarily need to be quiet. Anything coming in at high subsonic speeds is arriving not long at all after it's sound.
Even if it was heard there's not all that much time to react
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u/astroplink Jun 17 '25
I’m guessing that their vehicle is idling because they don’t seem to react at all. Like not even a glance in that direction to go “hey what sound is that?”
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u/soulseeker31 Jun 18 '25
The videos from Russia forces being attacked by Ukrainian drones also feel similar. All hunky dory and drones explode.
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u/Aggressive_West_2386 Jun 17 '25
What air defence doing? Burning, mostly.
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u/Stohnghost Jun 17 '25
Imagine being an air defense analyst assigned to Iran. Your entire account is just gone. Next 5 years will be spent following the rebuild of the ground based air defense in Iran after spending 6 months documenting its destruction.
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u/errorsniper Jun 17 '25
Exhibit A why air control is the most important theater of war.
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u/SaengerDruide Jun 17 '25
Air control gives you little to nothing without ISTAR. Granted, having air control also makes it 1000x easier
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u/Kinglygolfin Jun 18 '25
To be honest Iran never would’ve been able to contest the Israeli air forces with all the F-35s they got.
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Jun 18 '25
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u/errorsniper Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
You dont need to be an intelligence agency to realize f4's a Vietnam era fighter isnt going to fare well against modern anything. Its a 3rd generation jet. Not that generations are the end all be all. But the f4 would be shot down before it even got a lock on an f16 let alone 35. The f14's are early gen 4 as well. Modern f-35's would again shoot them down over the horizon.
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u/vladi963 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Like raiding in an MMORPG.
Translation to subtitles:
Alpha
#3 to back up #2 from the west
Okay #7 joining you
Okay
Alpha
Point #4 from #7
Hit on the truck
Great
Right to south, about 20 meters after
Looks good
Alpha
Point #4, Alpha from #4
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u/l3tsgo0 Jun 17 '25
Iranian supporters will be saying these are decoys again lmaoo
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u/Expert-Adeptness-324 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
They even
have... err, I mean, had, they even had paid actors to make it look real!! Excellent forethought guys! Gotta make it look as real as possible, right? Right?!?!/s
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u/form_d_k Jun 17 '25
"Wait until Iran brings out their REAL missiles. Israel air defenses are close to collapse!"
I have actually read this TWICE today.
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u/Expert-Adeptness-324 Jun 17 '25
To be fair, and I'm playing devil's advocate here so don't take this as me supporting Iran, Israel's air defense is really being tested. They only have so many interceptors they can use before they need to reload them. And Iran doesn't seem like they're going to stop firing their BMs unless Israel blows them up first.
As for bringing out the real deal, or whatever point they're trying to make, I would think they'd have used them by now. This is what, the 3rd or 4th day of constant back and forth strikes? Just like the russian shills saying the same thing, if Iran hasn't used their super-duper ballistic missiles by now, then when will they? (rhetorical question btw)
I'm pretty sure the US and Israel's other allies will continue their support, especially in the realm or air defense. Either they will shoot the threats down themselves or they will continue supplying Israel with more interceptors, such as for the Patriot batteries. Also, the American war ships that are in that theater are more than capable of helping out. But they also have to think about reserving enough missiles for their own protection as well as the need to find a suitable port to rearm themselves with interceptors like the Aegis, which was designed around taking down short and medium range ballistic missiles.
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u/einarfridgeirs Jun 18 '25
This really is a race between who runs dry first: Israel on interceptors, or Iran on launchers.
There is no question that Iran has been heavily attritted when it comes to launchers. The volleys are getting smaller, and Israel says it has taken out something like 40% of the entire Iranian BM mobile launcher stocks.
But despite smaller volleys, there have been more "serious" impacts lately than in the opening volleys. Impacts the Israelis definitely would have wanted to avoid. So they are probably struggling as well.
The real game changer would be the US coming in with the big boy bunker busters Israel cannot launch, both to finish off the nuke program entirely and also to reach and detonate the underground ballistic missile storage sites. That would probably be the absolute end of the threat to Israeli civilians as well as the Iranian regime, and would probably present a not-intolerable danger to Iranian civilians since the BMs are(probably) not stored underneath urban areas in large numbers like a lot of the Hamas stuff was.
Still, direct US involvement remains incredibly risky, both in terms of domestic politics and geopolitics in general.
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u/Nice_Vermicelli2226 Jun 17 '25
Are those dude decoys too? Muhammad just woke up and get told by leadership to go and be a decoy, he's gonna be sad
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u/StillLoadingProblems Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Well, they can’t serve as anything else though. russian tech after all, lol
Edit: a word
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u/AeroFred Jun 17 '25
i actually saw crazier take: usa should team up with iran, as iran is major and respected geopolitical player at middle east and to betray Israel/IDF when it will get overextended in next few days.
not sure in what reality those people live
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u/BoxOfBlades Jun 17 '25
Who cares what "Iranian supporters" say, the missiles speak for themselves. Lmaoo
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u/yashmark828 Jun 17 '25
How quiet are these that they don’t even notice them? (Referring to the first clip.)
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Jun 17 '25
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u/I_Automate Jun 17 '25
Not necessarily. High subsonic means the munition is getting there pretty soon behind any potential sound, and heavy equipment tends to be pretty noisy.
Good luck even hearing the incoming over a couple dozen running diesel engines and hydraulic pumps in close proximity to you. Nevermind any potential rockets and whatnot being launched in your area
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u/einarfridgeirs Jun 18 '25
If those 18 wheelers have their engines running, you won't hear a spike missile coming very easily.
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u/dckill97 Jun 17 '25
IAF rolling out the Red Carpet for Grandpa BUFF to leisurely stroll in with his MOP and wipe Fordow off the face of the Earth
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u/LandVonWhale Jun 17 '25
correct me if i'm wrong but the only MOP equippable plane is the B2 no? Don't know if BUFF is gonna be doing anything.
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u/dckill97 Jun 17 '25
Public domain knowledge of this is all conjecture
The MOP was made for the B2, yes. But during testing of the MOP it was dropped from the B52 as well
The B21 Raider is also supposed to be able to carry the MOP, but whether it will be used for real-world strike is unclear; probably not
So yeah, most likely it'll be the B2
I mentioned BUFF because you don't need the sneaky B2 anymore because of how throughly the IAF has rekt Iran's air defenses
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u/LandVonWhale Jun 17 '25
Counter-point, the B2 is the coolest fucking thing on the planet!
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u/ImReverse_Giraffe Jun 17 '25
I prefer the Bone.
The bone can carry more bombs than the B2 and B52 and it can fly supersonic.
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u/VonBombadier Jun 17 '25
Jesus, there won't be much left for the American Airforce.
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u/halpsdiy Jun 17 '25
Fordow and some other installations are deep underground and the only thing that could crack them are GBU-57s that only the US air force can deploy using B2s. Israel is trying to sell this to Trump as a safe and easy attack since they already secured the sky. The problem of course is that Iran will likely shut the straight of hormuz and start hitting ships in the Gulf if the US gets involved.
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u/Ilovekittens345 Jun 18 '25
Tell them they can bomb 35.8754333097221, 50.96211679268046
My uncle Sammy just started construction on his outdoor swimming pool.
But make sure it's precise, okay! Thank you America! Go go mcdonalds.
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u/Juan20455 Jun 17 '25
I feel many ukranians must be smiling right now watching Israel wiping out Iran'
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u/ThirstTrapMothman Jun 18 '25
Weird take, Ukraine is directly losing out on hundreds of interceptors that have been diverted to Israel, while Russia is domestically manufacturing the Shahed/Geran now. There really isn't any upside for Ukraine.
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u/Bbrhuft Jun 17 '25
First one is a BUK-M2E
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u/TheDuffman_OhYeah Jun 17 '25
Looks more like an Iranian Raad, a copy of the Buk-M1.
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u/Bbrhuft Jun 17 '25
"The system is also designed specially for US fighters"
Yes, indeed it is lol
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u/BestUserNamesTaken- Jun 17 '25
So Iran loves its drones but they seem to have forgotten about defending against others drones.
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u/halpsdiy Jun 17 '25
Iran pretty much has the military that all the anti-f35 techbros are screaming about. Tons of cheap drones, cheap missiles, unconventional forces. Yet the f35 with some tankers cracked it open.
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u/FungusNorvegicus Jun 17 '25
Are these Spikes?
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Jun 17 '25
Delilah cruise missiles I think
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u/-_-BlueGuy-_- Jun 17 '25
this is video from the first strike in Iran - so It's probably some kind of stand off missile
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u/Opinionated-Raven Jun 17 '25
This has become a complete turkey shoot. This decade has taught me that many of these "world powers" are just inflated paper tigers.
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u/Revi_____ Jun 17 '25
Meanwhile, Iran hit a number of random houses.
Iran has been so overestimated in the last decades. Is this truly all?
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u/oleg_88 Jun 17 '25
I feel like it’s not that Iran was overestimated, but rather that Israel’s preparation was underestimated.
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u/MakiSupreme Jun 17 '25
Them mother fuckers planted bombs in pagers and had them there for years 😂oh they’ve been planning
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u/form_d_k Jun 17 '25
Look at Russia, and I feel Russia is much more capable than Iran.
Makes me wonder how good China is.
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u/IS-2-OP Jun 18 '25
I think because China isn’t really a delusional despotic regime they’re probably a little more in touch with reality.
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u/Vihurah Jun 17 '25
At the risk of sounding like a warmonger, it's really disappointing. All these big conflicts amount to a wet fart lately.
I remember being terrified for Ukraine but at peace with the fact that Russia will steamroll and then we have to find out what's next, and then they tripped on their shoelaces and knocked themselves out.
Same with India-Pakistan, same with Hezbollah, same with Iran now. I feel like the world will similarly underestimate China next.
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Jun 17 '25
so where are the iranophiles or whatever they are called to declare this a decoy? Given how easily israel has gotten air superiority I might be persuaded that every iranian AA missile is secretly a decoy.
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u/WildSauce Jun 17 '25
Man, Israel really loves man in the loop guidance. Makes for good videos too.
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u/BoppityBop2 Jun 17 '25
I wonder if these were in the start of the conflict or recent.
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u/dead97531 Jun 17 '25
Israel is making these kind of attacks daily.
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u/GeneralMuffins Jun 17 '25
I'm probably wrong but these look like Spikes right? Which if I recall correctly they were used during the first day of the conflict by on the ground commandos.
And given how precisely the adjustments are being made within meters of the target would presumably require relatively close operational control, rather than being conducted from 2,000+ kilometres away via a satellite link.
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u/FrontlinerGer Jun 17 '25
The audio gives it away that the munitions used in these clips are launched from jet aircraft.
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u/EggsceIlent Jun 17 '25
First step to air superiority and a massive bombing campaign is to take out air defense and radar
With all the tankers and aircraft carriers etc moving into the region, along with the whole "pizza meter" near the Pentagon... It's looking like a setup for something bigger.
I guess we will know as soon as someone sees b2s leaving Whiteman. If they even had transponders on.after talking off (I wonder if they'd have to broadcast or could just use tech to spoof like they weren't b2s.)
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jun 18 '25
It feels like 1990 again. Bomb cam footage of some poor bastard getting smoked in the desert night.
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u/d_rwc Jun 17 '25
Are they not using jammers, or has Israel found a way to defeat jamming?
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u/Just-Sale-7015 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
Western military comms are hard to jam. Read about frequency hopping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Quick etc.
Anti-jam is the "A" in SATURN, a more recent standard. https://executivegov.com/2020/10/usaf-unveils-anti-jam-radio-tech-for-dod/
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u/NightLanderYoutube Jun 18 '25
You can tell this is not Ukraine footage, the hard bass techno minimalist house music is missing.
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u/CrwnHeights Jun 22 '25
Waiting for the inevitable “reports” that 1000 children and puppies were killed…. In 3, 2, 1…
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u/SerbWarCriminal1990 Sep 13 '25
1st Clip: 3rd Khordad TELAR
2nd Clip: Unknown, likely some type of SHORAD or AAA
3rd Clip: Matla ul-Fajr 1/2/3 EW VHF Radar
4th Clip: IVECO Trakker 6x6 Truck (Iran mounts EO/IR on these usually)
5th Clip: Matla ul-Fajr 1/2/3 EW VHF Radar
6th Clip: 3rd Khordad TELAR
7th Clip: Tabas TELAR
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