F-15 Pilot Breaks Down Iran's SECRET Missile Bunkers

About this video

Mike Ritland’s guest, Ryan (a former military planner who worked on Iran contingency plans), discusses the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict. Ryan recounts his experience studying Iran’s military capabilities, particularly the IRGC’s resilient proxy warfare systems including dispersed ballistic missile bunkers and drone networks. He explains how Iran’s infrastructure was built to survive an initial U.S. air campaign and shift to asymmetric warfare, drawing parallels to North Korea’s tactics. Ryan also discusses the IRGC’s information operations using tactics from ‘Rules for Radicals,’ China and Russia’s limited assistance to Iran, and his surprise at the conflict’s duration and the high operational tempo of over 13,000 U.S. and Israeli sorties.

Key takeaways

• According to Ryan, Iran’s IRGC built their military infrastructure specifically for proxy warfare with dispersed ballistic missile bunkers and drone systems designed to survive an initial conventional military defeat
• Ryan teaches that the IRGC uses information operations borrowed from ‘Rules for Radicals,’ triangulating populations against specific enemies (calling America ’the great Satan’) rather than addressing substantive issues
• Ryan recounts that over 13,000 U.S. and Israeli sorties have been flown in the conflict, primarily by fourth-generation fighters (F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, A-10s) rather than fifth-generation stealth aircraft due to weapons loadout capacity

Episode details: published September 30, 2026 · 185.1K views · 21:38 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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