Posted on 06/18/2025 5:52:16 AM PDT by Milagros
'Fighting 1,500 km from home isn’t a walk in the park,' says IAF pilot Maj. N’ of the first strike in Iran; 'We saw Iranian jets take off—then flee and vanish, and we stayed two hours and could’ve gone back—again and again'“This is my correction for October 7—this time we were the initiators,” says Maj N. (31), an F-15 pilot from Squadron 133, one of the first to take part in the unprecedented Israeli airstrikes over Iran at the start of Operation Rising Lion Now, he shares what it was like to wait for the green light, the challenges of flying deep into enemy territory, and the deeply personal sense of “correction” for the failure that launched the war.
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Cowards
Probably had no missiles or ammo. Just a bluff all along.....................
Yep. Rising Lion vs. Paper Tiger. Muslims talk a good game, but unless they’re jihading or assassinating unarmed civilians, they’re cowards.
AMRAAM’s vs Aphids. 45km vs 8km. Not a fair fight.
Memes?
They had no civilians to hide behind, so they ran.
Maybe. And maybe just smart. There is no point in risking one’s life for a dying regime.
There planes were mostly F-4s and a few F14 Tomcats. Relics that wouldn’t last 3 minutes in a dogfight (unless Tom Cruise were flying them).
I don’t know. What I DO know, is that I saw Iranian pilots, attending pilot training in Texas. They were horrible pilots. The fact that they would flee, is no surprise to me. They are useless pilots.
Absolutely. There is no Iranian Air Force there, there. Iran from the top all the way down is just a bluff.
Once Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi are destroyed, there is no Iranian military capability of real substance. Once the command structure is killed off, there is nothing truly effective left.
F-4’s are museum pieces..................
Funny how Leftists seem to latch on to Western weapon system superiority and lament how it is an unfair fight. (You aren’t doing that here, you were simply pointing out a fact, one that was likely not lost on Iranian pilots)
Most of us want the fight to be as absolutely and positively unfair as it could be, in our favor. Which proves we are looking at it logically, where Leftists do not.
Not “cowards”, just persons serving a very unforgiving regime which they do not feel the least allegiance toward.
Feet don't fail me now!
Here’s the problem most will miss with this story:
It highlights a disturbing misallocation of resources away from defense of their beloved ‘peaceful nuclear program’ (into said program) and both reinforces the LIE told by gabbard & the urgency Israel effected by acting on day 61 (probably the longest they sought to wait).
IOW they may have put all their eggs in one basket at the expense of their own defense (the prospect of this is all being a ‘rope-a-dope’ diminishes greatly with every IDF bomb).
Should fly b2 bombers over Iran just for giggles. Iranian leaders will have to buy new shorts.
That was my thought as well. Perhaps they will ask to land their planes in Jordan or Israel.
How would they know they were overhead?
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