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Given the US administration's public statements on Iran, visible activity at RAF Fairford may have been deemed an acceptable if not a welcomed externality of the current air campaign," he told AFP.

If the U.S. is firing off so much ordnance against Iran, then they can’t use it against the Chinese in, say, two years, and it’s not going to be available for the Europeans against Russia,” said Ed Arnold, a European security analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, a research group in London. Gaps in Europe’s military ability “are well known — we just have not been doing enough about them for a long, long time,” Mr. Arnold added. “And some nations are getting completely found out now.”

Tehran has said it will begin to roll out its higher-capability missiles in a third wave against Israel … but we haven’t seen that yet...If it does have them, it could turn some of those on the oil industry in the Gulf.”