US Just Achieved the FASTEST Victory in Modern Military History... 12 Minutes of Total OBLITERATION
Operation Epic Fury unleashed a relentless 12-hour assault that reshaped the Middle East overnight. In this video, we break down how U.S. and Israeli forces coordinated 900 strikes, dismantled Iran’s air defenses, targeted leadership, and achieved unprecedented aerial dominance. From Tomahawk missile barrages to stealth fighter operations, discover how overwhelming firepower crippled a regime in hours. But the biggest question remains: was this victory only the beginning of something far more dangerous than anyone expected?
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Operation Epic Fury unleashed a relentless 12-hour assault that reshaped the Middle East overnight. In this video, we break down how U.S. and Israeli forces coordinated 900 strikes, dismantled Iran’s air defenses, targeted leadership, and achieved unprecedented aerial dominance. From Tomahawk missile barrages to stealth fighter operations, discover how overwhelming firepower crippled a regime in hours. But the biggest question remains: was this victory only the beginning of something far more dangerous than anyone expected?
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00:00It was total obliteration. A devastating series of strikes that had crippled Iran's regime and
00:05set the stage for a war that will see the U.S. annihilate any prospect of Iran being a major
00:10geopolitical player in the Middle East. Even U.S. President Donald Trump can't believe how quickly
00:16Iran's regime has fallen as the U.S. has achieved the fastest victory in modern military history.
00:20All it took was 12 hours. And now Iran is on the verge of complete collapse. The U.S. and
00:26Israel
00:27teamed up to launch a pair of operations running in tandem but with the same goal,
00:31take out Iran's dictatorial regime. Operation Epic Fury combined with Operation Roaring Lion to deliver
00:37an unbelievable amount of air power into Iran in a matter of hours, leaving an already struggling
00:42regime in tatters while taking out some of the key military nodes that might have allowed Iran to
00:47launch something that might resemble a strong enough retaliation to make the U.S. and Israel think twice.
00:52The numbers are astounding. The U.S.-Israel combined force conducted a staggering 900 strikes
00:58against Iran in just 12 short hours, in a shock and awe campaign that has shaken the entire country
01:03to its core. We'll be explaining how the U.S. pulled off its 12 hours of destruction in just a
01:08few minutes,
01:09along with what the team-up between the U.S. and Israel was designed to achieve.
01:13Along the way, the combined forces have destroyed Iranian air defenses, degraded Iran's ability to
01:17retaliate and utterly ruined Iran's command and control capabilities, leaving the country little
01:23more than a husk of the military force that it once presented itself to be.
01:26The first blasts in Tehran were reported at about 5.30 p.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time,
01:33the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Iranian Standard Time is about seven and a half hours behind that
01:38reported time, which means the U.S. struck Iran at about 10 a.m. local time.
01:42About an hour after the first explosions were reported, U.S. President Donald Trump
01:47announced that the U.S. had begun major combat operations in Iran. What followed was another
01:5211 hours in which the U.S. and Israel battered Iran's defenses, leadership, and key military nodes.
01:58As Kapi Ami notes in his report on the U.S.-Israeli operation, the 12 hours of destruction wrought
02:04on Iran focused primarily on the most important city in the country, Tehran.
02:09There in Tehran is where much of the regime's command leadership is concentrated, Kapi Ami says.
02:14And over the population hub, we can also see a surefire sign that the U.S. and Israel are well
02:19on their way to achieving the sort of aerial dominance needed to boot Iran's ruling regime
02:24out of power forever. The airspace over Tehran has gone almost completely dark, which is precisely
02:29what we see in regions of Ukraine and Russia where air travel is being prohibited because of the sheer
02:33scale of the military forces being deployed in the airspaces of these countries.
02:38Iran International shared an illuminating map on February 28th that clearly shows civilian
02:43air traffic avoiding Iran altogether. Planes that might have flown over the country just
02:4724 hours before are now being diverted to avoid Iran, along with other key hotspots such as
02:52Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria that are both targets for Iranian retaliation and sites from which
02:57the U.S. is launching its strikes.
02:59Oh, and one more thing. As part of its 12 hours of destruction, the U.S. has also taken
03:03out Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The man who has overseen Iran, as it struggled
03:08to become a respected military and nuclear power, is gone forever, along with hundreds,
03:13perhaps even thousands, of his regime's followers and leaders. We'll be exploring what that means
03:17and why it's set the stage for whatever comes next later in the video. But for now, we move
03:21on to two key questions. How did the U.S. pull off its 12 hours of obliteration, and what roles
03:27did America and Israel play in what has to go down as the worst half day in the entire
03:31history of Iran's brutal regime? We'll start with the how.
03:35The simple answer is that the U.S. used an overwhelming amount of firepower to annihilate
03:40Iran before it even had a chance to get out of the starting blocks in this war. We could
03:44spend hours going over every aspect of what the U.S. did, but instead, we'll focus on
03:48some of the heaviest hitters, starting with the Tomahawk missiles that the U.S. unleashed
03:52in massive quantities from its warships. The over 20 American warships, including destroyers
03:57and submarines that have been built up in the region over the past few months, launched
04:01dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles at their targets, Capiani reports. Some amazing footage
04:06has emerged of this Tomahawk blitz, including videos shot from the ground of America's
04:10missiles hugging the terrain as closely as possible as they hurtled their way to whatever
04:14they were sent to destroy. One such video shows 21 of these cruise missiles flying toward
04:19their targets one after the other, all clearly visible from the ground, and all caught in
04:24a single video that lasts just over half a minute. Multiple impacts were reported at strategic
04:29locations, all of which Iran's air defenses, which are primarily made up of systems purchased
04:33from Russia and China, along with some built in Iran, failed to stop.
04:38That's where the low-altitude flight of the Tomahawks comes into play. The lower a missile
04:42flies to the ground, the harder it is for air defense systems and their radars to see that
04:46missile coming. There are concerns that the US has burned through more of its already limited
04:51stockpiles of Tomahawks during its 12 hours of epic fury. However, as Business Insider notes,
04:57the RTX Corporation that makes the missile is already working to boost production to 1,000 units per
05:02year, and after this initial attack, the US has likely opened up the opportunity to strike with
05:06more precision using other missiles and munitions. Still, the Tomahawks played a crucial role in the
05:11first 12 hours. The same goes for the fighter jets that the US deployed from its nearby aircraft
05:16carriers and military bases. Kapi Army reports that much of the initial 12-hour blitz of Iran's
05:21defenses were carried out by F-35s and F-A-18E Super Hornets. It took off from the aircraft carriers
05:27that the US is stationed in the Persian Gulf region. Their strikes hit an Iranian drone platform and
05:32multiple ballistic missile launch sites, Kapi Army reveals. CNN adds that F-16s and F-22s have also been
05:39seen in action in the days that followed America's initial 12 hours of obliteration,
05:43as have twin-engine A-10 attack planes. America's jets also targeted Iran's limited naval facilities.
05:49Operation Epic Fury has cost Iran some of the most important assets in its navy,
05:54as reported by no less than President Trump himself.
05:57I've just been informed that we destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval ships, some of them relatively large
06:02and important. We're going after the rest. They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea also,
06:06Trump declared. He added that America's overwhelming strikes also destroyed Iran's
06:11naval headquarters, before sarcastically adding, other than that, their navy is doing very well.
06:16Militani reports that satellite images have already confirmed the sinking of three of Iran's warships,
06:21including a light frigate and pair of corvettes. It also seems like three other vessels, including two
06:27patrol boats and an auxiliary ship, have also been destroyed. This is the last thing that Iran wants
06:32when its navy is already pretty weak. Global firepower reveals that Iran had only seven
06:36frigates and three corvettes to begin with. Though it still has its 25 submarines, at least as we know
06:42so far, the loss of any warship limits the naval power that Iran might have tried to exercise in
06:46the Strait of Hormuz. Let's slow down for a second, which is something we're sure that Iran's regime
06:51wished the US would have done on February 28th. So far, we've seen that America's 12 hours of
06:56destruction has taken out Homine, and there's more to come on that. US tomahawks obliterated key
07:00military nodes throughout Iran, and the country's fighter jets have attacked key targets, including
07:05some of the few ships that Iran has that might present anything resembling a threat to America's
07:09naval dominance. Thanks to the US, Iran has lost its first warships since the 1980s, and there will
07:15almost inevitably be more to follow. But there is more, much more. Before we dig deeper into what else
07:21the US did in its 12-hour blitz, this is the military show. There's a lot more where this
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07:29Coming back to the barrage that was America's 12-hour assault on Iran,
07:33it wasn't just tomahawks that Iran's regime had to worry about on the missile front.
07:37Beyond whatever the US fighter jets were launching by way of missiles and bombs at Iran,
07:42the US also made use of its ATAKAMS missiles. According to Military Watch Magazine,
07:46footage released by US Central Command, or CENTCOM, revealed that ATAKAMS missiles fired from
07:52HIMARS launchers also targeted Iran. It seems likely that the US used these missiles to attack
07:57Iran's radars, further degrading the country's air defenses, along with ballistic missile launch
08:02sites that Iran might have used to retaliate against the US. Other footage, upon which Military
08:07Watch Magazine reports, seems to show ATAKAMS missiles being used to take out a medium-range
08:12ballistic missile launcher, as well as an Iranian BAV-373 air defense system. These missiles would
08:18have had to be launched from the ground, as seen in the footage, and the US would have needed to
08:21have
08:22its launchers positioned fairly close to Iran's borders, given the maximum ATAKAMS range of 300
08:27kilometers . This has led to speculation that the US took advantage of its military bases in Iraq or
08:34Turkey to complete this component of the 12-hour blitz. We don't know if that is indeed the case,
08:39as the US hasn't confirmed where its ATAKAMS attacks originated. However, they are the likely
08:43options, and the answer doesn't really change the fact that Iran has to deal with those powerful
08:47missiles crashing down on its territory, along with tomahawks and everything else that the US and
08:52Israel unleashed as part of their attacks against 900 targets in 12 hours. With all of this firepower,
08:57it's easy to forget about another weapon that the US deployed during its initial assault on Iran,
09:02LUKUS. These one-way attack drones are used by Task Force Scorpion Strike, which the US created in the
09:09Middle East toward the end of 2025. Operation Epic Fury marks the first time that this task force has
09:14been called into action on this scale, as well as the first time that LUKUS kamikaze drones have been
09:19deployed. CNN says that the American drone is essentially a copy of the Iranian-made Shahid-136,
09:25and CENTCOM seems to confirm that in the statement.
09:27These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran's Shahid drones, are now delivering American-made retribution,
09:32CENTCOM declared. So Iran got a little taste of its own medicine to go along with the catastrophic
09:37display of pure American firepower that it was forced to absorb on February 28th. What we saw
09:43during America's 12 hours of Epic Fury is, simply put, the most impressive collection of US aerial
09:48might put into practice in years. Or as CENTCOM puts it, Operation Epic Fury involves the largest
09:54regional concentration of American military firepower in a generation. There seems to be no denying.
09:59And in a few minutes, we're going to dive into what all of this means for Iran and its regime.
10:03But first, it's worth exploring in a little more detail how Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring
10:08Lion worked together to utterly cripple Iran in just 12 hours. After all, though the US and Israel
10:14appear to have the same goal of taking down Iran's long-standing regime, each country took a different
10:19role during the opening stages of the conflict, and it might be argued Israel's role might have ended
10:24up being even more damaging to Iran and its prospects of putting up a fight in this new war.
10:28According to the Institute for the Study of War, or ISW, the US and Israel collaborated
10:33on a strategy that we can perhaps sum up as destroy and decapitate. Where America's airstrikes focused
10:39primarily on military targets such as the warships and ballistic missile launch sites that we've already
10:43discussed, Israel targeted Iran's leadership. It seems likely that Khamenei died as a result of
10:49the Israeli part of the 12-hour blitz, the ISW claims. Other major Iranian leaders that the Israeli
10:54Defense Force claims to have taken out include Ali Shamkani, who is Iran's Defense Council Secretary,
10:59and Commander Major General Mohammad Pakpour of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, or IRGC.
11:05Other major losses for Iran include its Defense Minister, Aziz Nazir Zadeh.
11:09All died in the first 12 hours of the war, and they were far from the only ones.
11:13Iran International adds that the ISNA news agency reports that thousands of members of the IRGC were
11:20killed or wounded due to the US and Israeli strikes against Iran's military centers.
11:24That figure doesn't seem to have been confirmed yet, and Iran International notes that the ISNA
11:29is only a semi-official source. Other figures, such as those shared by Al Jazeera,
11:34suggest that at least 555 Iranians have been killed by the airstrikes so far.
11:39That figure comes from the Iranian Red Crescent Society, and it's unclear if it relates solely to
11:44civilians or all Iranian casualties, including the country's leadership. So there is still confusion
11:49regarding the true scale of death that has occurred in Iran's regime as a result of the 12-hour blitz,
11:55but we can say one thing for certain, the regime is on shaky ground.
11:59And as the US and Israel follow up on their initial blitz, as the US has already done by
12:03unleashing its B-2 Spirit stealth bombers against Iran's underground missile facilities,
12:08that ground is going to crumble away.
12:10This is layered, synchronized air power at its peak, Max Afterburner says in his own roundup
12:15of the end of a war that has only just started. And this is what the US military was designed
12:19for,
12:20this type of synchronized approach to take down the integrated air defense system
12:23and allow the leadership to be struck. Again, it's the strategy that the ISW highlights.
12:28America took out the military nodes, and Israel focused on Iran's leadership,
12:31all in a 12-hour window that makes what we've seen at the start of the war between the US
12:35and Iran
12:36perhaps the most impressive display of military might yet be seen in the history of modern warfare.
12:40But all this has already happened, and it's been devastating for Iran.
12:44The big and final question we have to ask is what will happen next?
12:47Trump has already offered us a hint during the 8-minute speech he delivered just an hour into
12:51America's 12-hour blitz against Iran.
12:53Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.
12:59Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops,
13:02our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world, Trump declared.
13:07In short, the complete collapse of Iran's ruling regime seems to be on the US and Israeli agendas,
13:12and if that's the case, then both have made a very good start. Khamenei is already dead.
13:17If the reports about the IRGC's losses are true, plenty of members of Iran's regime and military
13:22who might have been able to spearhead some sort of campaign against the US have followed Khamenei into
13:26the ground. The satellite images that have emerged of the ruined state of Khamenei's leadership house
13:31also serve as a massive propaganda victory for the US, as it will be able to share those images far
13:36and wide
13:37to showcase not only how powerful the American and Israeli air forces are,
13:40but how good their intelligence has to be for them to hit these kinds of targets so quickly
13:45and before Khamenei and his ilk could escape.
13:47That sort of propaganda could also inspire what the US may hope to be the next phase of the war
13:52with Iran,
13:53a rebellion against the remnants of the regime by the Iranian people.
13:57Kappi Army speculates that Trump has committed himself to his regime overthrow statements,
14:02as a way of telling the Iranian people, who were protesting against that very regime in the months
14:06leading up to Operation Epic Fury, that the US will support them. If they rebel on the ground,
14:11the US may be saying that it will use its airstrikes to ruin whatever response Iran's remaining regime
14:15tries to formulate with more airstrikes. It's a case of passing the baton, in a sense, and the death of
14:21Khamenei
14:21so early in the war may have laid the foundation for an uprising fuelled by people power. However,
14:26as Politico reports, such an uprising would have to overcome layers of repressive mechanisms that
14:31Iran has built over the last few decades, most of which won't have disappeared just because Khamenei
14:36is gone. The IRGC is still very much alive, even with the loss of so many members, and it's historically
14:42difficult to get rid of regimes that are as fundamentally rabid in their beliefs as the one that leads Iran.
14:47But then Iran's people are showing a major appetite for change right now.
14:52Perhaps they will heed the US call and be successful where others before them have failed, Politico says.
14:58One thing we can say with almost 100% certainty is that the US support won't extend to putting boots
15:03on the ground in Iran.
15:05Republican Senator Tom Cotton has already made that clear in an interview where he said,
15:09The President has no plan for any kind of large-scale ground forces inside of Iran.
15:13An extended air and naval campaign that builds on the regime-shattering success of the initial blitz is
15:18far more likely, Cotton says, and the US will be hoping that whatever ground force is needed
15:23comes from the repressed people of Iran who have been crying out for regime change.
15:28There's another factor for Iran's regime to worry about, other states. The Times of India is already
15:33reporting that there may have been some form of sly cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia in the
15:38build-up to the initial 12-hour series of strikes. That cooperation may become more overt as the
15:44war goes on, as the Saudis have plenty of reasons to want to get rid of an Iranian regime that
15:48is
15:48unpredictable and has tried to make itself a power player in the Middle East. The UK has also announced
15:53limited involvement in the conflict, though this currently extends to offering the US the use of UK
15:58bases after it had previously refused. However, there is a broader consensus across most of the Gulf states
16:04that this war isn't their fight, as Al Jazeera reports. That's even though Iran has retaliated
16:09as best as it can against the US in Israeli strikes by launching limited numbers of missiles and drones
16:15at American bases in those Gulf states. But right now, things aren't looking good for Iran's regime.
16:20Its leader is dead. Most of its air defenses are shot, much of the IRGC has been destroyed,
16:26and the entire regime is in turmoil. The war may not be over yet, but in just 12 hours,
16:31the US along with Israel has set the stage for Iran to lose so quickly that it will be a
16:35marvel of
16:36modern military operations. Total obliteration has come for Iran's leadership. And interestingly,
16:42the fall of the Iranian regime may well have a dire impact on another leader who is thousands of miles
16:46away. Somewhere in Russia, Vladimir Putin is trembling at the thought of what a world without
16:51a version of Iran that is friendly to Russia will mean for his own regime. Why? We'll find out
16:56the answer in our video where we cover what happens to Putin if Iran's leaders fall. And if you enjoyed
17:02this video, remember to subscribe to the military show as we cover the latest developments in Operation
17:06Epic Fury. And thank you, as always, for watching.
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