south to the red sea, and around to the persian gulf, international waters all the way. Long trip, but constrained only by refueling, which they can do multiple times, with loitering tankers.
They could also leave a tanker protection fighter patrol while the strike fighters did their stuff.
Totally doable.
That’s an incredibly long trip, especially since the targets in Iran are in the North and that would put them approaching from the South and in a narrow corridor where Iranian radar would see them. IIRC the Saudis have given their permission to use their airspace but I don’t remember the source for that. I believe I did read it here on FR though.
Itsimilar to what our F-111s had to do when they struck Libya when France and Spain refused them overfly rights.
Itsimilar to what our F-111s had to do when they struck Libya when France and Spain refused them overfly rights.