The likely mission of the F-22 Raptors in the event of full-scale hostilities with Iran would be targeting Tehran’s surface-to-air missile batteries, especially the S-300 system, its best air defense.
Taken on Jun. 27, 2019 the pictures in this post show U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 Raptors arriving at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The Raptors are deployed to Qatar for the first time in order to defend American forces and interests in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
The USAF did not give the total number of F-22s deployed, but a handout picture showed at least five the warplanes over the base.
The F-22 movement comes a week after an Iranian surface-to-air missile (SAM) shot down a U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the drone was in its airspace, but Washington claims it was over international waters.
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WNU Editor: It is going to take a lot more F-22s to confront Iran than what has already been deployed.
7 comments:
Take this as fact, the Iranian Air Force and Navy would be wiped out within a day and probably without loss or a small handful. We wouldn't lose one F-22, heck they probably wouldn't see them until they are smoked.
I doubt Iran can take down an F-22 or harm a carrier, however this isn't the Iran of '88 that had just finished a long war with Iraq. The US conveniently removed Saddam and now almost everything from southern Iraq to the coasts of Lebanon and Syria are open to Iran and its proxies.
Iran also has a large amount of cruise/ballistic missiles in hardened bunkers that can strike US airbases in the region, the oil fields and terminals of the Gulf states, and populated areas in Israel.
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Take down an F22 maybe not. Harm a carrier definitely. There is quite simply no defense against a large missile volley. AEGIS can only do so much with every given second of operation.
The carriers will be so far offshore that anything Iran can throw at them will be way far at the end of it's range, and AEGIS will have the solution long before it gets anywhere near.
Iran has a lot of missiles that can hit the airbase in Qatar
They might, key were might be able to hit a carrier but not sink it. it would basically take a nuke to sink one.
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