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Posted on 04/24/2009 10:05:39 AM PDT by pobeda1945
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.
That would have been a hell of a show. LOL
Ahhh yes....more must have, got to be true info from DEBKA.
This would have been cool to see.
Darned Russkies.
Can you imagine the iranians appauding as their bomber fleet was destroyed because they thought it was part of the show.
I’m very anxious to see the first the first combat missions of the F-22. At least the Israelis understand the benefit of superior air power.
The Russians need to have a Coke and a smile and shut the hell up!
Mother Russia has shown her true color over the last few years ... red.
Never let a "target-rich environment" go to waste.
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