Iran's Air Defense Could Defend Against U.S. F-15s

Middle East Newsline ^ | March 23, 2009

[Strategy]

LONDON [MENL] -- Iran has been developing an air defense network that could defend against a U.S. attack, a report said.

A report by a leading defense researcher said Iran was assembling a Russian-origin air defense umbrella that could defeat attacks by the most modern Western aircraft.

The report, "Surviving the Modern Integrated Air defence System," said Iran has employed IADS technology that could cause huge losses in any U.S. air campaign.

[editor-surveyor]

Dem ragheds is geniuses!

[BIGLOOK]

Who said we’d use F-15s?

Read you 5X5.

Queers and Hornets.

[Sergio]

F-15s, to F-117s, to F-22s. Nice progression.

The guys and gals at the Tactical Control Squadron there at Holloman will be happy to have “air to air” birds back.

Thanks for the update SZ.

[American in Israel]

Irans defense could not touch our Nuclear Balistic Missile systems. A weapon that we may be forced to revert to if Iran suceedes in putting up a credible defense against our conventional weapon systems.

Now that Iran is a Nuclear power they get to bleed like the big boys, no more fighting with our hands tied behind our backs.

[prophetic]

We dont need to use any F-15's

Heck a salvo if 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles and its Game, Set & Match!!

Game Over Iran!!

I was about to say more but I wont bother since its pretty obvious L-) :-)

[prophetic]

HUH????

WTF?? Obama's wrecking team really didnt waste any time I see!!

What are they gonna do next? Scrap 10 of our 12 Aircraft Carriers to appease his Muslim & Commie handlers???

[lentulusgracchus]

.........and don’t forget the F-111s

We'd have to ask the Australians nicely if we could borrow theirs. Oz is the only country that operates the F-111 now. Which is probably a mistake on our part, given their performance in the Gulf War. Even against these "modern" Russian arrangements (oh -- by the way, Barack -- how's that Russian promise to help keep the Iranians from building the Bomb coming.....?), the F-111 ought to be able to make some significant contribution. Especially if, as our friend notes, the Russian system is suitably degraded first.

[lentulusgracchus]

I thought the B-70 was awesome also.

Yeah, the idea of a crate that looks like that ..... and then is designed to ride its own shock-wave to the other side of the world ..... just kind of sucks the air out of my chest, the stuff our guys used to do. Just ... amazing.

Now we know the kind of damage Jimmuh did, breaking up those great teams and dispersing all that engineering talent. Those guys would have us in orbit around Neptune by now if he and Tricky Dick had left them the hell alone and let them work.

Hell, we'd probably have a star drive by now. We'd be like Cartman, "Screw you guys, we're going to Alpha Centauri!"

[mountn man]

I look at the leaps that the B-70 made and the SR-71, and our space program, all in the same time frame. Then all of a sudden NADA. Granted a bird like the F-22 is awesome, but I don’t see it as the giant leap like the previous planes. Maybe I should, I’m not an aero-engineer, and nobody else has developed a plane quite like the F-22, or the B-70, or the SR-71.

[mountn man]

Remember, the POTUS is THE ONE with the authority to launch nukes. He would never fire on his muslim brothers. Even if we were fired upon.

He'd just sit it out in Hawaii.

[NFOShekky]

Never good to underestimate your enemy, but LMFAO! I was flying around the Gulf back in the day and we get a radio call that goes somthing like: "US Aircraft. . .this is Iranian warship. . .you are approaching us and are in danger" or some such crap like that. We give the "we are in international waters. . ." reply and proceed to boom in on them. This is what we were in "danger" from: I think our prop blast may have capsized them! Here is her sister ship after the US got "irritated:" Weapons away!