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To: Condor51
I don't know... Not my field of expertise but... Wouldn't you use the F-15s as the strike aircraft and the -16s as the fighter escorts? So it would be the -16s mixing it up with the 29s...

The 15s probably have better standoff engagement capability... But I think the 29s are more maneuverable than the 15s. The 16s should be better suited to mixing it up in a furball - which is likely to result when you can't use hit and run tactics. As in when you're tied to a slower moving strike package...

Go IAF, ignore obambi, he is a literal babe in the woods when it comes to, well, everything. He has no practical experience or knowledge.

12 posted on 05/16/2009 9:33:47 AM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar (I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
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The biggest impediment toward an Israeli AF strike on Iranian nuke facilities are double digit SAMs (i.e. 9K330 Tor-M1, aka SA-15 Gauntlet) and AAA (i.e. Pantsir-S1, aka SA-22 Greyhound), especially the feared S-300PMU-2, aka SA-20B Gargoyle.

They have to be taken into account, otherwise the F-15Is (from 69 SQN) and F-16Is (from 107 and 119 SQNs) would be slaughtered.

I know they are something to be reckoned with, even the Iranian MiG-29 Fulcrums, which I bet the Israeli fighter pilots know how to go up against (right?), but to make things a helluva lot easier, why not equip the Israelis with F-22I Raptors (customized with Israeli avionics, equipping 106 and 133 SQNs), that will enable them to evade and suppress the double digit SAMs and eliminate Iranian F-14s and MiGs while the Ra’am and Sufa workhorses bring in the bombs.

It’s that simple.

It’s that sim


31 posted on 05/17/2009 2:12:03 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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