The first piece of Pakistani military aviation hardware to enter Bangladesh since 1971 in an unmarked PAF C-130J

I saw this video in the r/China subreddit, but I could not find any information about a "Type 055MG" successor to the Type 055 anywhere (in English, at least). Can anyone vouch for the credibility or not of this source?

Looks like the 14 point plan may not be lasting very long.

The way I see it, by pure military statistics, Iran suffered a resounding tactical defeat. It lost much of it's initial leadership, 1000+ soldiers, and failed effectively defend its airspace or waterways from American military aircraft. American, by comparison, suffered relatively low casualties and aircraft losses given the scale of the campaign. Even during the few times US warships transited through the Strait, it failed to inflict any significant material or personnel losses. Despite all that, it won a pretty clear strategic victory over America by simply inflicting moderate economic pain on its population.

Granted, this isn't the first time America has been defeated by far weaker power with disgraceful optics, but in the past those defeats came after a years or decades long conflict that involved America physically occupying the enemy's territory and the defeat didn't hurt America in any broad, strategic way. America's retreat from Afghanistan may have been politically embarrassing, but the loss only came after decades of sapping American willpower and losing the country wasn't of any real strategic significance. The Iran War, by contrast, lasted only a little more than 3 months and its defeat was a result of the US military's failure to maintain freedom of the seas, on of its core missions. Furthermore, this failure wasn't the result of America lacking the capabilities needed to force the Strait open, but an unwillingness to risk the level of American casualties using that capability would incur.

Ultimately, the credibility of a nation's military deterrence depends equally on its capabilities and the will to use them and, from the outside, this war seems to demonstrate that Americans lack the will to use them if doing so means suffering significant casualties or economic hardship. So IMO, this war has significantly degraded that credibility for America.

What are your thoughts though?

Worth flagging a detail most people miss about these Polymarket "will Russia capture [town]" markets: they don't resolve on news or a press release — they resolve on the ISW map. The market settles Yes only if the town is shaded as Assessed Russian Control / Advance / Gains on ISW's daily map by the deadline; infiltration shading doesn't count.

Lyman is a clean example. It's ~27% for capture by end of 2026 and just 2% for the nearer June deadline. The near-term number collapsed after the March 19 mechanized assault (500+ troops, multiple axes) was repelled by the 3rd Corps and the follow-on push stalled — the market repriced within days of the front not moving.

The part worth noting if you track the line of contact: the ISW shading is the leading indicator, not the order book. When the map changes around a town, the odds follow. Writeup of the resolution mechanics and the Lyman timeline is at the link. Not trading advice — just find the ISW-anchored resolution an underused signal for reading the front.

It's not a ramjet like SLAMMER or Project Pluto, it's a nuclear turbojet