Time to find out if our Navy can survive an onslaught of sunburns and silkworms fired at a short distance in narrow straights or if the Iranians can survive a stealth fighter attack along their batteries on the shore.
Time too to find out how well the shore-based launchers survive overflights by Hellfire-equipped MQ-1 Predators...and MQ-9 Reapers, [which the Navy gives folding wings and a tailhook, and then refers to as Mariners] which can also carry Stingers and JDAMs.
Plus the Marine attack helicopters aboard the carriers and support ships, once the stealth aircraft *blind* the Iranian air defence radars.
The Air Force has concluded new pilot training for the F-117 and was planning to retire the Nighthawk by 2008. But perhaps not quite yet, and it may yet retire with one more combat ribbon to its credit.
I am sure it is high tech enough for the Iranians - with that said I am not so gung ho to be a fan of what the defense contractors claims our weapons can do.
I am one of those conservatives that views the Military Industrial Complex as something to be weary about.