'Never in its history has the US faced an adversary like Iran': Brazilian analyst
The United States has never encountered an adversary quite like Iran, according to a Brazilian military analyst, drawing sharp contrasts between the current confrontation and America's past wars, including World War II's Pacific Theater.
In her latest blog, Patricia Marins noted that the technological dominance the US once enjoyed over its adversaries no longer applies in the face of Iran's rapidly advancing military capabilities, referring to the recent 40-day war against the Islamic Republic.
During World War II, she noted, the United States held decisive technological superiority over Japan, including microwave search radars, proximity fuzes, active sonars, and superior cryptography.
American ships could detect Japanese fleets from kilometers away in total darkness and aim their guns automatically using radar data, while the Japanese relied on optical rangefinders and inferior radar that served only as a basic alert system, Marins stated in the blog.
The proximity fuze alone increased the effectiveness of American anti-aircraft defense by up to 500 percent.
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"That scenario does not exist in the war with Iran," Marins stressed. "I would say that in all its history as a country, the US has never faced an adversary like Iran."
According to Marins, the Iranians far surpass the Americans in the field of ballistic missiles, developing, manufacturing, and operating short, medium, and intermediate-range systems.
She noted that Iran has deployed hypersonic glide vehicles in attacks against Israel, confirmed by video evidence, and has done so in such high quantities that it maintained a sustained rate of 30 to 50 missile launches daily for nearly 40 days.
Marins observed that the United States is struggling to recover from several failures in its own missile programs in the wake of the 40-day war that ended with a ceasefire.
In the field of one-way drones, Marins added, Iran is far ahead – both in the stealth design of its models and in anti-jammer technology – to the extent that the US was forced to copy the Iranian Shahed drone under the name LUCAS.
"This is a multipolar war," Marins wrote, "but there is still resistance from the West to seeing this new world."
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