The war in Iran gives China and Russia a rare opportunity to study the U.S. military in real time, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The war in Iran has given China, Russia and North Korea – countries marked by US as major threats to their own security – a rare opportunity to study in the real world the strengths and weaknesses of the US armed forces,” a Wall Street Journal report highlights.
As the paper says, “these three countries observed for the first time new U.S. weapons systems in action, such as high-speed precision airstrikes, with the help of AI.”
Also, these three forces “documented how quickly the US depleted critical weapons systems, particularly Tomahawk and Patriot missiles.” In addition, they saw how Iran’s cheap drones posed a threat to Washington’s Gulf allies.
The Wall Street Journal also notes that “some of the military equipment of Iran is based on Chinese technology or contains Chinese components,” noting that “Beijing is eager to collect operational data, particularly on how Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in the Gulf.”
And for Russia, “the war reportedly offers a deeper understanding of how U.S. weapons compare to Iranian ones, especially in the context of overlapping drone technology,” the same paper said.
The Wall Street Journal article also says that “such a deeper insight is valuable for Russia in its war with Ukraine, which relies heavily on U.S. weapons, and in the event of a future conflict with NATO allies in Europe.”
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