Iran Challenged US NAVY — BIG MISTAKE!
At 7:10 in the morning, a Tomahawk missile shoots up from the deck of the USS Spruent, flies toward Iran.
The booster drops off.
A small jet engine kicks on.
The missile drops to just 50 ft above the water.
4 seconds later, the next one, then the next, and the next.
The biggest American military attack since the 2003 invasion of Iraq has just begun.
Eight missiles gone in 90 seconds.
300 m away.
Two more warships do the same.
25 tomahawks now race low over the waves, threading through gaps in Iran’s coastal radar.
Flight time to Iran’s southern Navy bases, 40 minutes.
Nobody in Iran knows they’re coming.
Somewhere on the Gulf Coast, an Iranian radar operator is probably drinking tea and staring at an empty screen.
He has about 39 minutes of quiet left.
But tomahawks are slow.
550 mph over open water means 40 minutes, where a single radar ping could blow the whole plane.
Everything depends on what entered Iran ahead of them.
Already inside Iranian airspace, a wave of Lucas drones is doing something no American weapon has ever done.
An Iranian air defense operator at a Bavar 373 battery watches [music] a dozen slow targets appear on his screen, crawling inland at barely 110 mph.
He can’t tell which ones carry 40 lb warheads and which are just decoys.
[music] So, he does the only thing his training allows.
He fires over a million dollars, chases a drone the size of a riding lawn mower, catches it at three times the speed of sound, and blows it apart.
But it wasn’t a tomahawk.
What just got destroyed was a Lucas drone, a cheap attack drone run by Task Force Scorpion Strike, built by Spectral Works in Mesa, Arizona, copied from captured Iranian Shahed 136s.
Each one costs $35,000 right now.
They are the most important aircraft over Iran.
He fires again, another million dollars.
[music] And again, every expensive missile that chases a drone cheaper than a pickup truck is one fewer left when 25 tomahawks arrive in 30 minutes.
And every time that battery fires, it broadcasts its exact location to F-35s now crossing the Iraqi border.
That operator is burning through missiles and marking himself as a target at the same time.
He was going to need every one of those missiles in about 25 minutes [music] because what crossed the Iraqi border next wasn’t a $35,000 drone.
12 F-15 IRAM jets had been climbing east through Iraqi airspace for 90 minutes, hiding behind a screen of F-35 IAD flying silent up front.
Those Adir quietly recorded every radar signal along the Iranian border while [music] sending out nothing.
The Rams flew in their electronic shadow, each one carrying a Rampage missile under the center of the plane.
At 8:05, the group reaches launch altitude over western Iraq.
The lead weapons officer has been watching his targeting screen update for an hour.
Coordinates refreshed three times through Link 16 from an Israeli Oruron spy plane circling over Jordan.
He confirms the target.
The pilot hits release.
2,000 lb fall away.
The nose pitches up.
The flybywire computer corrects before the pilot’s hands can move.
The rocket motor lights.
The weapon breaks the sound barrier in seconds and curves east toward Thrron.
11 more rams release within seconds.
12 weapons, faster than anything Iran can [music] stop, arcing toward the capital.
A tomahawk from Iraq needs 45 minutes to reach Thran.
These weapons need minutes.
That gap is everything.
45 minutes gives Iran time to detect, track, get permission, and fire.
minutes only gives them time to watch the damage on the news.
At 8:10, everything hits at once.
The fast weapons arrive first.
Supersonic warheads with almost no warning.
The Supreme Leader’s office on Pastor Street takes multiple direct hits.
A satellite overhead captures the aftermath.
Buildings reduced to broken concrete, smoke rising through the morning air.
Minutes later, F-35 AERS cross the border carrying JDAM and GBU39 small diameter bombs.
The pilot heading for the Ministry of Defense doesn’t flip between screens.
The jet’s computers combine its own sensors, link 16 data from every plane in the group, and satellite images into one single picture.
Every Iranian radar within 200 m, every friendly aircraft, the exact location of three buildings he’s about to destroy, one screen, like a GPS that shows every speed trap and pothole, updated live.
Iran spent 30 years building a connected air defense network.
The F-35 made it look easy to crack.
He rolls the Adair upside down at 25,000 ft, pulls the nose toward the Ministry of Defense, and drops a GBU39, just 250 lb, a quarter of a standard JDAM.
But GPS guided wings carry it over 40 m with accuracy measured in singledigit feet.
The bomb punches through the roof and detonates on a delayed fuse inside the third floor where military planning files are kept.
Across Tyrron, the same thing repeats.
The Ministry of Intelligence, the Atomic Energy Organization headquarters, Parchin Military Complex.
Each target chosen because it can’t [music] be quickly rebuilt, moved, or replaced.
The F-35s aren’t hitting random government buildings.
They’re cutting the system [music] that connects Iran’s military leaders to their troops, their spy services, and their nuclear program.
But 700 m south, the Tomahawks have finally reached the coast.
The first warhead hits the Kalúa IRGC Navy base at A12.
The command building caves in.
Fuel storage explodes and a thick column of black smoke shoots straight up through the humid morning air.
4 minutes later, an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing rolls in from the north at 18,000 ft.
The weapons officer has been locked on this target for 40 minutes.
A thick concrete shelter protecting pay class [music] fast attack boats.
These are the boats Iran built to flood the straight of Hormuz, 50 ft long, armed with machine guns and rocket launchers designed to swarm out in groups of 100 and overwhelm oil tankers and US ships.
Nobody’s swarming anywhere today.
He confirms GPS and drops the GBU31.
2,000 lb [music] fall from the center mount.
Four fins adjust 10 times per second, guiding a massive chunk of explosive steel toward a roof built [music] to stop shrapnel.
Not something that hits like a freight train.
30 seconds of freef fall.
The bomb punches through the concrete arch and detonates inside.
The pressure has nowhere to go.
Walls burst outward.
The roof crashes down onto the boats like a fist closing.
The Strike Eagle is already climbing back to altitude when the backseat officer confirms the hit.
Below them, the straight of Hormuz sits open and quiet.
Iran spent 40 years threatening to block it.
The boats that were going to do it are burning under a collapsed roof.
500 m east on the deck of the USS [music] Abraham Lincoln, an F/ A18E Super Hornet from the VFA 41 Black Aces sits on the catapult at full power.
It fires 0 to 165 mph in under 3 seconds.
D.
The Black Aces are heading to Chabahar, Iran’s only deep water port on the Gulf of Oman.
Tomahawks hit the command post and fuel storage 20 minutes ago.
Burning fuel throws a smoke column visible from 60 mi out, but the submarine docks are still standing.
A Gadier class sub that slips to sea, can carry mines into the straight of Hormuz, hidden among normal shipping traffic.
That cannot happen.
The lead Hornet rolls in on the submarine dock with a GBU31.
His wingman follows 30 seconds later with another 2,000 pounder into the repair dock next door.
can’t fuel it, fix it, or load it with mines.
It’s just expensive scrap metal.
A third pair targets the C82 anti-ship missile launcher on the nearby hill.
The weapon that could threaten tankers and coalition warships in the straight.
Two GBU39s later, it’s gone.
All along the Gulf Coast, the same pattern, tomahawks first, then jets, has hit Asaluya, Chabahar, and Bandar Abbas.
Home to Iran’s Kiloclass submarines and the IRGC Navy’s fast attack headquarters.
The carrier still has plenty of weapons ready.
None of Iran’s boats go out, but 500 miles north, the F-35s over Thran are low on fuel, and the air defense system in the western mountains is waking up.
3 hours in, the weapon Iran was counting on finally gives itself away.
After Israel destroyed nearly all of Iran’s Russian-made S300 batteries in October 2024, Iranian engineers spent 2 years building a replacement.
The IDF later calls it the SA65, a mobile phased array radar with a 150 km engagement range, the best Iran could build under sanctions.
They placed it in the Kerman Mountains, guarding the western corridor Israeli jets had been using all morning.
An EA18G Growler from the Lincoln’s airwing catches the first signal.
The SA65 had been pulsing in short bursts for hours, trying to track F-35s without staying on long enough to attract a missile.
But with a second wave of rams coming through the corridor, the battery commander makes the decision every air defense operator dreads.
He switches to fire control.
Full power, continuous track.
He’s going for a shot.
The moment he transmits, [music] he is finished.
The Growler’s ALQ249 jammer floods his tracking frequency with enough power to turn his screen to static.
At the same time, [music] an F-35i that had been mapping that signal for 90 minutes sends the exact coordinates through [music] link 16.
From a Super Hornet circling 40 miles west, an AGM88 missile drops off the wing, lights up, and accelerates to nearly Mach 3.
Its GPS, navigation system, and radar homing don’t care if the radar shuts off.
It already knows where the target lives.
Signal to impact, less than 90 seconds.
Iran spent two years building a replacement for what Israel destroyed.
Israel and the US destroyed the replacement before it fired a single shot.
A US official later says, “We have effectively shut down their air defenses.
That changes everything.
” Jets that had been circling over Iraq for 3 hours are cleared to push deep.
12 F-22 Raptors get the call from Joint Base Langley Eustace, Virginia.
Call signs trend 51 through 66.
Shared with Israel through RAF Lake in Ethiopia.
They’ve been watching the air defense picture shift from red to yellow.
Now it’s go time.
The lead Raptor pilot pushes both throttles forward and banks east into Iranian airspace.
His radar tracks targets 125 mi out.
Objects the size of a golf ball, while his own jet appears on enemy radar as something the size of a marble.
An Iranian [music] fighter needs to get within 15 mi to detect anything at all.
At 15 mi, the amra are already off the rail.
It’s like being invisible until you’re already standing in someone’s living room.
Raptors aren’t here to shoot down planes.
They’re here to listen.
The F-22’s A/LR94 is the most powerful electronic spy system ever fitted to a fighter jet.
Over 30 antennas in the wings, body, and tail, each tuned to a different range of signals.
Flying over central Iran, it records every electronic signal from the ground below.
A mobile missile launcher that moved during the morning chaos and thinks it’s hidden.
The ALR94 already found it.
An IRGC command post on a frequency it thinks is secure.
Logged, tagged, and forwarded through link 16 to an F-15E circling 60 mi back.
The Iranian Air Force, maybe 40 working MiG 29s, a handful of surviving F-14 Tomcats, and some old phantoms already outdated when the movie Top Gun came out, stays on the ground.
Smart choice.
But in the mountains of Kurmana, Loristan, and Kustan, the hardest fight of the day is at its peak.
30 F-15 IRAM jets loaded with Raphael spice glide bombs and Delila cruise missiles have spread across three provinces, hunting teals, the heavy trucks that carry, raise, and fire ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israeli cities.
The math is brutal.
An IRGC missile crew can drive a Shahab three out of a mountain tunnel, set up in a valley, connect fuel lines, raise the missile, and launch in under 30 minutes.
Then they drive the empty launcher back underground before the next satellite pass.
Finding a teel in the mountains of western Iran is like finding one specific food truck in New York City, except this food truck is trying to hit Tel Aviv and moves every 20 minutes.
Israeli drone video released hours later captures the moment that defines the day.
An Iranian teel caught mid-launch in a narrow valley.
Grainy heat camera footage.
The missile already standing straight up.
Ground crew at the base connecting the last fuel lines.
The weapons officer in the circling ram has his crosshairs centered, but he waits.
Drop now and [music] the missile could fall clear.
Damaged, not destroyed.
He needs the fuel lines connected.
He needs the crew grouped together.
10 seconds.
15.
The ground crew steps back from the fuel connection.
He releases the Raphael Spice glide bomb drops, opens its wings, [music] and steers down the valley on a low angle to spread the blast across both the TL and the missile at the same time.
12 seconds [music] of guided flight.
The warhead detonates where the launcher rail meets the truck frame.
The Shihab 3’s fuel tank ruptures and three tons of liquid fuel ignite in a fireball that whites out the heat camera for two full seconds.
When the picture comes back, [music] the valley floor is scorched clean, but they can’t catch them all.
Iran has hundreds of teals in the western mountains.
Some in tunnels with blocked approaches.
[music] Some are decoys.
And some crews, the ones that fuel fast, raise the missile before the next drone pass, launch before I arrives.
Those missiles are already flying toward Israeli cities.
Some Iranian counter fire is going to get through.
The only way to limit how much is to destroy Iran’s largest weapons stockpile before it can launch.
With the Raptors feeding targeting data to every aircraft in the area, and Iran’s air defense is gone, the coalition goes to full strength.
Israel’s next wave, 30 more jets, spreads across Isfahan, Busher, Az, and surrounding areas.
60 precision weapons hit targets the first strikes couldn’t reach.
Missile storage buildings, air defense factories, a drone unit headquarters, and the Shahed [music] storage sites.
large buildings and hardened shelters packed with Shahed 136 drones fueled, armed, and pre-programmed with targets in Israeli cities and American bases sitting in launch racks waiting for the order.
The same drones the IRGC plan to launch in swarms [music] of hundreds as their counterattack that afternoon.
JDAMs and small guided bombs walked through depot after depot across three provinces.
950 drones gone.
At the same time, US jets hit IRGC command buildings deeper inland.
Underground bunkers, communication towers, fiber optic cables, cut communications first, and commanders can’t coordinate even if they want to.
Iran’s internet drops to just 4% [music] of normal, confirmed by net blocks.
But a hacked Iranian prayer app still manages to push one simple message to millions of phones.
Help has arrived.
If you enjoyed this video, watch our other video where the US destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.
Bye for now.
