Bobby. wrote on Oct 30
th, 2024 at 9:02pm:
Israel's bombing raid on Iran -
I can't understand why the Israeli tankers were not shot down?
They can be seen with radar for 100s of miles away by Iranian fighter jets
and even ground radars at civilian airports in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Qatar etc.
There is a lot you don't understand.
Old F4 Phantoms and F14 Tomcats are outdated if any of them were silly enough to fly Israel would have shot them down without them knowing what was going to happen.
Israel is the world leader in Electronic counter measures they jammed the Russian made S300 SAM radars before blowing them up.
They have missiles that home in on Radar signals the only defence would be turn them off and unplug it which might not work as they have GPS location.
Iran now has no air defences against Israeli F16s and F35 the radar they used for guiding their missiles is trash so it's questionable if Iranian missiles can be fired into Israel with any accuracy and considering the last 2 missile attacks were hopeless Iran is stuffed.
Reports are Israel has trashed missile and drone making capability of Iran which might impact Russia who is a customer so we will see with Ukraine.
Iran couldn't do anything about this Israeli attack now they have no air defences so unlikely they will attack again which is why they claim Israel did minimal damage so they can save face without responding.
Did you know Israel does their own electronics for the F35 everyone else gets the US package.
The Israeli avionics are more reliable worked from word go and were much cheaper.