Uhhh....no. You just blow it up first
while this isn’t good news, I am highly skeptical that anything made by the Russians works as well as advertised. If anything, the Iranians will end up over-confident because of this new system which plays into our hands if we ever get a President that actually wants to militarily prevent Iran from building nukes.
This right here tells you this guy knows absolutely nothing about the subject. No, we wouldn't use the stealth aircraft to strike targets in Iran. The implication is they would strike the nuclear sites. Wrong. Strike fundamentals 101, use the stealth aircraft to take out the air defenses. Then all your more conventional strike aircraft can go to work.
With his implication that the small number of stealth aircraft would have to do all the work he is either wildly ignorant on the subject and/or trying to spin it. Either way, he's marked himself as an unreliable information source.
That leaves the polar ICBM route...
Putin probably won’t be all that happy about the overflight of Russia.
> would render an airstrike on Tehran’s nuclear weapons
> facilities nearly impossible.
Not for a nuclear tipped reentry vehicle.
Not to worry.
The chances of the US attacking Iran until AFTER they nuke New York are zero, and AFTER they do, we won’t be using aircraft or surface warships.
By the way, I’m looking out a hotel window at Central Park while I’m typing, and that first Iranian nuke is going to make one hell of a big mess.
I get the feeling Obama doesn’t give a damn, with a big side of Allahu Akbar
I would think this is where a fleet of drones that were not that expensive, but have the payload to be able to deliver some quality munitions would come in handy.
You can pretty quickly bring down the surface to air capability of a country by using drones as your advanced air attack force.
Rods from god... kinetic strike from space.
The sale was probably Obama Admin’s idea anyway
People who understand nothing about war or military conflict sound extra stupid when speculating on things that armies “cannot do”.
And a word of real-world caution: beware of gift weapons systems from the Soviets - I mean the Russians - because the phrase "monkey model" meant something back in the day.
The other question is do you put them around your High Value Targets (nukes) and confirm that is where they are or do you put some around your HVTs and others around other sites as decoys?
ThunderSleeps' comments above are spot on. Take out the Air Defense and the rest becomes a lot easier.
If you are going to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities, you may as well go ahead and take out their political and military leadership. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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You might have to take a B-52 and go nap of the Earth and/or “on the deck.” I’ve seem films of a B-52 flying nap of the Earth in the mountains of West Virginia, very impressive handling if you ask me. Otherwise, we might have to dodge those SAMS much like we had to with the SA-2 over Hanoi and Haiphong.
How well does an S-300 “shoot down” a 1,000lbs iron rod falling from orbit?