00:07Iran is not waiting for a war to begin before rearming. It is rearming in the middle of one.
00:14And what is happening right now inside the Islamic Republic's military machine
00:19should be sending shockwaves through every war room from Washington to Tel Aviv.
00:25Let's break it down, piece by piece.
00:27Start with the aircraft.
00:29Iran has just finalized a major contract with Russia to procure 12 Sukhoi Su-30SM-2 heavy fighter jets,
00:38a full battalion's worth, reported by the military mirror, citing Russian defense sources.
00:45Now here is what makes this deal different from anything Iran has done before.
00:50These are not new jets sitting in a factory waiting to be built.
00:54They are second-hand aircraft with very few flight hours on their airframes,
00:59meaning Russia can begin deliveries as early as mid-2027 and hand over the entire fleet by the end of
01:06that year.
01:07Iran is bypassing the weight. It is buying ready-to-fly war power.
01:12But why the Su-30SM-2 specifically? Because it is not just a fighter, it's a gateway.
01:19The Su-30SM-2 shares the exact same AL-41 engine as Russia's Su-35.
01:26That means Iran's mechanics, spare parts supply chains, and maintenance crews can serve both aircraft simultaneously.
01:35One logistics network, two lethal platforms. And that's the point.
01:41Intelligence circles now widely assess that Iran is building a multi-tiered fleet.
01:46The Su-30s come first as conversion trainers, preparing Iranian pilots for the 48-to-64 Su-35s already scheduled
01:56to be delivered.
01:57And beyond even that, multiple reports suggest Iran may be the mystery client that signed a contract for Russia's fifth
02:05-generation Su-57 stealth fighter.
02:08Think about what that means. A country that has been flying Vietnam War-era F-4 Phantoms and F-5
02:16Tigers, jets supplied by America in the 1970s,
02:20is now on a trajectory toward fifth-generation stealth combat aircraft.
02:25But here's the part that nobody is talking about enough.
02:29Even with those ancient jets, Iran claims it already struck back.
02:34State-affiliated Press-TV has published a detailed report claiming that an Iranian fighter jet,
02:41believed to be the domestically-built Hesa Khousar, flew at just a few dozen meters above sea level,
02:48hugging the radar horizon, slipping under Patriot missile batteries, and struck Camp Buring,
02:54a major U.S. military installation in Kuwait, one of the most strategically significant American bases in the entire Gulf
03:02region.
03:03If true, this would be the first time a fixed-wing aircraft has bombed a U.S. military base since
03:09the Korean War.
03:11The Khousar itself is no ordinary machine.
03:14Built from decades of reverse-engineering Iran's old F-5s, it carries a modern digital cockpit, fire control radar,
03:23radar warning systems, chaff and flare dispensers, and can reach Mach 1.5, with 90% of its components produced
03:31domestically.
03:32Iran turned a 1970s American jet into its own stealth-capable strike platform.
03:39And now, as if all of that were not enough, Tehran took to the streets.
03:44The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps publicly unveiled its next-generation Arash Kamikaze drone,
03:51parading two of them through Engelab Square, as crowds flooded the streets waving Iranian flags.
03:57The Arash is a one-way attack drone, a successor to the Arash-2, which reportedly struck Ben Gurion International
04:05Airport in Israel on March 21.
04:08The new variant is believed to carry a warhead between 150 and 260 kilograms, with a range exceeding 2,000
04:18kilometers,
04:18a low radar cross-section, and the ability to launch from mobile platforms to overwhelm air defenses.
04:26Iran did not just show the drone, it sent a message.
04:30And Iran's naval commander made that message verbal.
04:34He said, and these are his words,
04:36Soon they will definitely see a weapon from us that they are very afraid of, I hope they don't have
04:41a stroke.
04:42He then mocked both the US and Israel directly,
04:46saying their belief that they could defeat Iran quickly has now become a joke in militaries around the world.
04:53So let's step back and look at the full picture tonight.
04:56Iran is buying Russian heavy fighters, training for Su-35s,
05:01potentially acquiring stealth jets, flying drones into Israel, claiming a strike on a US base in Kuwait,
05:08and parading next-generation weapons through its capital city.
05:13This is not a country bracing for war.
05:16This is a country that believes the war has already started and is fighting it on its own terms.
05:22The only question now is how long before the other side is forced to respond at the same scale.
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