IRAN Nuclear Crisis News and Discussions

[Wild Weasel]

It is true that the US military is probably a little overextended at the moment, making an Iraq-style invasion unlikely. That said, the forces, equipment, and logistic stockpile that is already in place in the the theater, and the region would allow the US to mount a full-blown Shock and Awe air-campaign, without having to do much in the way of prepositioning.

The maxim that air power alone cannot win a war, still holds true- but being attacked by aircraft of the US military certainly blurs the distinction.
They can achieve air superioty, without incurring significant losses, they can saturate and destroy Iran's air defenses with vitual impunity, and they can mount sortie after sortie at all times, in any weather.

What's more, the US can brutalize Iran unilaterally, without requiring the assistance, or permission of any nation.

 

[Crusader2000]

US DEPLOYS F-16s FOR POSSIBLE ATTACK AGAINST IRAN


Source: www.washtimes.com

Fighters Deploy

Coinciding with increased tensions with Iran over the resumption of illicit uranium enrichment, the U.S. Air Force has dispatched additional warplanes to the region in a not-so-subtle sign, military sources say.

An entire wing of F-16s, the Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing based in Fort Wayne, Ind., left for a base in southwest Asia on Tuesday. A wing is usually about 72 aircraft and several hundred support personnel.

F-16s and support personnel from the 4th Fighter Squadron of the 388th Fighter Wing based at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, also deployed recently to Iraq. The squadron has 12 F-16s.

Both units' F-16s could be used in any military operation to take out Iranian nuclear facilities.

A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command Air Forces, which runs air operations in the region, said the F-16 deployment of about 80 jets is part of a rotation and is not related to Iran's uranium reprocessing.

Surely, if the US was going to attack. Which, I doubt very much. It would be with B-1, B-2, or Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.................or at very least F-15E's. I don't see F-16's as being the weapon of choice. Maybe for Israel..............not for the US

 

[tphuang]

Crusader2000, calm down a little bit. I've received a lot of complaint about you. There are some Muslims on this forum, they do not want to hear about Iran getting invaded.

 

[coolieno99]

Assad and company see Saddam sitting in that booth prior to the 6' drop, his wretched sons worm food. He knows a combined Israeli/Yank armored juggernaught would cut thru Syria like crap thru a goose. So why would he be so stupid to get involved in something with the Iranians?

Syria has a formal defensive pact with Iran. An attack on one, is seen as an attack on the other. Syria, unlike Iraq, does have WMDs in the form of weaponized nerve gas. Most likely many of DF-15s, Scud-C,Ds warheads are probably mounted with the nerve gas warheads. Not counting reserve units or militias, Syria's 319,000 men army combined with Iran's 540,000 men army would give a total force of 859,000 men. Iran's militia numbers 9,000,000 men. Syria's militia ? unknown. Besides Syria can deployed 4,700 main battle tanks.

 

[gf0012-aust]

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