{"id":3675,"date":"2026-05-02T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:58:00","slug":"wsj-the-war-in-iran-shows-china-and-russia-the-military-capabilities-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: The war in Iran shows China and Russia the military capabilities of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Iran gives China and <b>Russia <\/b>a rare opportunity to study the U.S. military in real time, the Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <b>war<\/b> in Iran has given <b>China, Russia and North Korea<\/b> &#8211; countries marked by <b>US<\/b> as <b>major threats<\/b> to their own security &#8211; a rare opportunity to study in the real world the strengths and <b>weaknesses<\/b> of the US armed forces,&#8221; a Wall Street Journal report highlights.<\/p>\n<p>As the paper says, &#8220;<b>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<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, these three forces &#8220;documented how quickly the US depleted critical weapons systems, particularly <b>Tomahawk<\/b> and <b>Patriot<\/b> missiles.&#8221; In addition, they saw how Iran&#8217;s cheap drones posed a threat to Washington&#8217;s Gulf allies.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal also notes that &#8220;some of the military equipment of <b>Iran <\/b>is based on Chinese technology or contains Chinese components,&#8221; noting that &#8220;Beijing is eager to collect operational data, particularly on how Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in the Gulf<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for Russia, &#8220;the war reportedly offers a deeper understanding of how U.S. weapons compare to Iranian ones, especially in the context of overlapping drone technology,&#8221; the same paper said.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal article also says that &#8220;<b>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<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Iran gives China and Russia a rare opportunity to study the U.S. military in real time, reports Wall Street &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}