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This handout satellite image of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment plant in Iran, taken June 11, 2007, shows the facility being built by Iran with a new tunnel facility inside a mountain near a key nuclear complex.

For the Israeli Air Force, this is a task an order of magnitude more challenging than Operation Opera back in '81.

It consists of multiple underground installations protected by AAA and SAM batteries, and the airspace is defended by MiGs, F-4s, F-5s and F-14s.

A lot of resources such as fuel and munitions would be expended in the mission.

The pilots would have to eliminate each target in one strike, otherwise concentrating on a single target would buy the Iranians time to bolster their defenses.

More of a concern would be the eventual political and diplomatic fallout following the air and missile strikes, let alone the Iranian reaction.

Look out Iran! Here we come!


1 posted on 04/02/2010 6:15:11 AM PDT by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

Israel should just go ahead and take them out. Nobody else will do it especially the Obama crowd!


2 posted on 04/02/2010 6:19:10 AM PDT by Cricket24 (Conservatives Only...NO RINO'S!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: myknowledge
... though he saw little chance of the Obama administration looking kindly on this tack.

Duh!

3 posted on 04/02/2010 6:23:49 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: myknowledge

Through calculated leaks to the MSM, the IDF is laying the PR groundwork for a strike. The idiots in the MSM can be useful, even to the good guys on ocassion.


4 posted on 04/02/2010 6:25:06 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: myknowledge

Israel to focus on key Iran urban turban targets in any strike


8 posted on 04/02/2010 6:45:57 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: jhpigott; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; sonofstrangelove

I wonder why al-Reuters keeps harping on the ins & outs of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities???? Isn’t this about the dozenth such report by “our friends” at al-Reuters????


9 posted on 04/02/2010 7:07:18 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
while making every effort not to hit the oil sector
The raid should be made on every mosque in Iran, during their "prayers" -- erase the local support for the regime.
11 posted on 04/02/2010 8:00:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: myknowledge

Beautiful Aircraft!


14 posted on 04/03/2010 6:30:18 PM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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