Let's go live to our correspondent in Tehran for a look-in.
Just to make it a fair fight bring back Maverick and the crew and F-14s.
“a war with Tehran seems to be a distinct possibility.”
Uh - no.
Trump is fortunately smarter than the Bushes. There are other options beside direct confrontation.
this is why iran will NOT take on the US because their air power will be decimated, their tanks destroyed, and the gov there will be vulnerable to takeover by the citizens that want to overthrow the dictators- They aren’t going to risk a civil war and coup when they get weakened by the US in my opinion
...or the US could take out their supply depo and destroy their aviation fuel and the planes would be sitting ducks on the ground.
Other targets would be their command and control center, radar installations, electrical grid, and infrastructure.
These could be done with drones.
There are so many possibilities.
What ever option the President chooses I don’t believe the first strikes will be to destroy Iran, only weaken them.
If however Iran decides to begin bring the war to the US mainland I don’t believe President Trump will show any restraint.
It has been close to 80 years since one nation fought an unrestricted war with another, I hope Iran chooses not to open that door...
“It would be much smarter for Iran to use asymmetric means to take on the United States”
Iran would be wise to bury the remains and put up a fancy grave marker.
If Iranians like electricity, the Iranians should act accordingly.
Or
Standoff weapons destroy the tomcats and SAM sites. While the raptor pilots enjoy smoothies on the beach
Anything Iranian that gets airborne would immediately get shot down.
They would be better off leaving their planes lined up on the tarmac and at least saving their pilots.
Like clubbing a baby seal...
No wonder the libs are all upset about the possibilities of war with Iran.
Only if the US gives them that option. We also have a vote. Just because they attack in say in South America doesn't mean we won't take the fight directly to their homeland.
In fact that would be my initial response, make it so expensive that they pull back or risk inhalation. No more games.
That's correct, the only proven use of Iranian airpower is shooting unarmed civilians from the air.
“The best of Iran’s decrepit fighter aircraft fleet is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.”
All THREE of them, each with a fire control system that hasn’t worked since the mid-90’s.
“Iran has upgraded its Tomcats with new avionics and potentially new weapons,”
Who supplied those? Hard-over sanctions
Worthless due to their THREE F-14’s having no functioning radar, non-functioning fire control system. . .just an aircraft where the engines are barely operating. . .flying junk unable to fire missiles or drop bombs,
Even the Iranians are not so stupid as to commit national suicide..........right?
Plus Israeli intelligence will be added. Bring on the pictures of the fly carpet air farce of Iran.
The only real test in an air war would be of S-400s vs stealthy planes.
Wondering if China and Russia might get into it...
Let's go live to our correspondent in Tehran for a look-in.
Just take out the leadership just like the general. Never mind the rest of it. Instant regime change.
We’ve had 40 years to monitor Iran’s war making capability and, as ours has evolved, theirs has devolved. Elements of our war with Saddam are more likely to be used incrementally to punish their regime for bad behavior while weakening their ability to maintain control of their population hopefully leading to regime change. An all out attack on Iran is only likely, in my view, if they do something so provocative that the President cannot ignore, even in an election year with a Senate Impeachment trial hanging over his head. He’s very mindful of his duty to protect the office of the Presidency itself for future Presidents.
Lets not do war with Iran. We need have a much stricter criteria for when and where we spend trillions and endanger our personnel.