That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Israeli Air Force Just Stripped Iran Naked

[SVPete]

That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Israeli Air Force Just Stripped Iran Naked

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/28/thats-gonna-leave-a-mark-israeli-air-force-just-stripped-iran-naked-n4933722

Reports are that somewhere between one-third and one-half of the IAF took to the skies on Friday night — a remarkable feat in itself if you know anything about what it takes to ready and arm a sophisticated warplane — and every single one of them returned home safely.

An open-source intelligence writer who uses the handle Raylan Givens — I've followed and trusted him for a couple of years now — gave the rundown on the operation, "courtesy of IDF Radio and with the approval of the military censor."

"The attack destroyed ALL of Iran's long-range surface-to-air missile batteries," according to Givens' translation of the IDF Radio report. "All long-range detection radars were also destroyed. Iran is left with only short-range batteries of local Iranian models."

Again bowing to Western pressure, Israel left Iran's oil and nuclear facilities intact, but the IAF brutalized Iran's missile production sites. While "Iran possesses more than 2,000 long-range ballistic missiles," by most estimates, "the production of new missiles was crippled. From now on, Iran will operate with a finite supply because the stockpile it has will not be able to grow for months or years."

Ukraine has long demonstrated that Russia's vaunted S-300 and S-400 SAM systems, which Iran uses, are fairly porous against 4th generation aircraft (e.g. MiG-29 or F-15). At least some of the aircraft Israel used were F-35s, so the Iranian operators of the S-300 and S-400 batteries probably learned the Israeli aircraft were there from explosions of the bombs the planes dropped. So now Iran has lost all or almost all of its long-range SAM systems, and, as Ukraine has also demonstrated, Russian medium- and short-range systems are not fantastic, either.

[enslaved1]

Why is Israel hitting Iran not making bigger news?  In all seriousness, it's been two days and there's been little to no coverage that I've found other than "oh yeah, Israel bombed Iran, now here's Jim with the weather forecast".  Seems to me that the likely response or even the impact of a lack of response from Iran should be very important to the state of the world. 

[Old n Grumpy]

They should have taken out the nuclear facilities as well. And let the Iranians know any further aggression would lead to their oil being destroyed as well.

[SVPete]

Why is Israel hitting Iran not making bigger news?  In all seriousness, it's been two days and there's been little to no coverage that I've found other than "oh yeah, Israel bombed Iran, now here's Jim with the weather forecast".  Seems to me that the likely response or even the impact of a lack of response from Iran should be very important to the state of the world.

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