The CVBG does not necessarily have to intercept the strike to interdict it.
If the CVBG can provide early warning and tracking data to Iran, then they might have time to engage with their best stuff. The Iranian air force is pretty much useless, but if the Iranians actually got the S-300s they wanted, the Israelis might have to run a dangerous gauntlet against a forewarned enemy.
Heck, it is even “deniable,” a big plus for the Liar-in-chief.
Ummm. Theoretically. The CVBG Combat Center would need to ‘exercise’ with the Iranian controllers to make sure that the alerts are properly formatted & passed. Otherwise you get what we had at Peal Harbor... an Army radar station that wasn’t really plugged into the anti-aircraft defenses & couldn’t ‘talk’ to the Navy. They detected the strike alright. But the ‘word’ couldn’t get down to where it mattered.
Also, I don’t know about the deniability part. The entire CIC would know.
Are the S-300s idiot proof?