Posted on 04/24/2009 8:08:42 AM PDT by pelican001
DEBKAfile's Iranian and intelligence sources disclose that Moscow warned Tehran Friday April 17 that Israel was planning to destroy all 140 fighter-bombers concentrated at the Mehr-Abad Air Force base for an air show over Tehran on Iran's Army Day the following day. The entire fleet was accordingly removed to remote bases and the display cancelled.
In the first week of April, Tehran announced it would stage its biggest air show ever to dramatize a ceremonial military parade in the capital on April 18. Iran would show the world that it is capable of fighting off an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities. Instead only four aircraft flew over the saluting stand. Iranian media explained that the big show was cancelled due to "bad weather and poor visibility," when in fact Tehran basked in warm and sunny weather.
Moscow had informed the Iranians that its spy satellites and intelligence sources had picked up preparations at Israeli Air Force bases to destroy the 140 warplanes, the bulk of the Iranian air force, on the ground the night before the display, leaving its nuclear sites without aerial defense. A similar operation wiped out the entire Egyptian air fleet in the early hours of the 1967 war.
Would have been one hell of an airshow by the IAF....
The only safe place for an Iranian fighter is buried in the sand..ala Iraq. They sure won’t be safe on the ground or in the air.
More likely the Iranians canceled the air show when they realised they have 140 planes and only ten pilots capable of flying them.
>>>and (2) that there are effective spies for Russia/Iran within the IDF.
Probably so but such preparations would have been visible by spy satellite, watching the flight lines, bomb trains, etc. Adding two and two.
Wow. They have made some serious advances!
Can’t get a gun or missile lock on balsa!
Maybe they can get a quote on some RAF mosquitoes!
Come on. It's Debka. What are the odds of that?
That’s where Baghdad Bob is working...
Hmm... Israelis have payday loan outlets outside their bases
too?
“that there are effective spies for Russia/Iran within the IDF”
My future county has lots of russian immigrants.
Inexpensive and stealthy too. Best of both worlds!!
LOL!!!
Don't forget about the traitors who are now running the USA.
The WWII Mosquito would be more practical.
:)
The basic facts seem to be true, if you google for “April 18 air show Iran.”
Several credible sources say that a massive air show was scheduled. And I can’t read Iranian, but one blog that links to the Iranian site reports that it says that the show was cancelled because of bad weather.
http://uskowioniran.blogspot.com/2009/04/iriaf-air-show-cancelled.html
I don’t know what the weather in Iran was on the 18th, but maybe someone could check that.
I agree that Debka is unreliable, but sometimes they seem to hear inside rumors. So this is at least POSSIBLE.
Or, who knows, maybe it was Gates and Obama who spotted the Israeli preparations and warned Iran. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Planes has got to posses the ability to be built domestically.
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