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.
Israel should just go ahead and take them out. Nobody else will do it especially the Obama crowd!
Duh!
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.
Israel to focus on key Iran urban turban targets in any strike
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????
while making every effort not to hit the oil sectorThe raid should be made on every mosque in Iran, during their "prayers" -- erase the local support for the regime.
Beautiful Aircraft!