shapurzolaktaf
Registered Member
I never said fighter jets are ineffective or not usable, but it is how it is now, revolution happened and we're in a new situation, life goes on, accept the history. You can't rely solely on westerners, they're not even selling their last and best fighter jet to Turkey (biggest NATO ally which supported them to secure Israel).Iran destroyed the Iraqi armed forces more than once with those weapons while we were going through a revolution and under sanctions. It wasn't a sudden situational change. It's not like a wind blew and things changed out of the blue. The new regime openly went against the US and took their embassy staff hostage for 444 days, started chanting "Death to America" at every gathering. Situational change? As if it weren't in our hands to prevent it from happening and we weren't responsible for that?
Please do not repeat the same flawed analysis again. You will need over +100,000 missiles to compensate for the firepower of an air force, not to mention that your defense capabilities will be almost non-existent without an air force, like we witnessed it quite well just a month ago. We have done the calculation multiple times here. And we have fewer than 5K MRBMs to hit Israel. Some claim the number is even fewer than 3,000 MRBMs at this point.
I always disagreed with any bad policy from Islamic republic, I mean the big-mouth policy, fueling western and zionist propaganda, althout the westerners kill and destroy countries in practise (Iran only chants).
But all of this doesnt change the facts: Iran is one of the most independent countries in the world, in top 3. We can't be used as a proxy against any country, we can't be forced not to produce certain weapons for our self-defence. We make our own decisions and agreements based on our own interest.
That we have not produce the amount is an organisational/logistical issue, not a technical or financial. So that was our own choice, it's not impossible and once done the enemy will be helpless (see Russia example, from importing shaheds, they are now MASS producing and MASS firing GERAN Drones).
I think the enemy was fearing this break-out (with Fateh just being introduced few years) and decided to attack. I will repeat my analysis, make a 1 to 1 comparison, price and risk for a fighter jet (including maintenance, weapons,) VS Long range Drones, Cruise and ballistic missiles. Investment in Drones and Missiles is also investment in development and technology because we keep them improving and complements other programs (space program for example). The fighter jet which you buy is foreign, you have to build the environment around it and once sabotaged, attacked or shot down by a better fighter jet, all your investment will be lost. So lets agree to disagree.


