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[BigMela2onin]

I must confess that I am very surprised any fighter jets are still left let alone operational in Iran at this point!

IRIAF is relatively well preserved still.

 

[Flotilla]

Advanced electronic and information technology is, in itself, a national weakness for Russia. While Russia does permit the export of the A-50 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, it currently faces a severe shortage of these units itself, making it difficult to supply them to Iran in the near term.

I agree at this point. Nothing meaningful in AEW aircrafts would get out of Russia because these problems.

The United States itself possesses a large number of airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems. Future satellite-based early warning systems would serve as a supplement to the existing architecture. Iran, by contrast, does not currently possess any AEW&C capabilities.

Read the article.

They said US will replace E3 with satellites. I think you're right and both are complementary systems. But hey, the article say something different. They say that until 2030 in advance they could use as a bridge measure some E2 bases in Air bases.

US has expent a crazy money in Irán war and new aircrafts carriers and 6 generation fighters will let no money left for E7 Wedgetails.

Anyway I read in other article that Pentagon finally realized that they need newer E7 Wedgetails to replace E3. But the cost It is so crazy that would be very few.

US is slowly entering in a swamp more and more deep and thick...

My point It is that being China so advanced in GMTI, just without moving any AEW aircrafts inside Iranian airspace, could just send information over the Horizon about incoming aerial treats to Irán. And this is something that probably have been done in the past war...

 

[Flotilla]

I must confess that I am very surprised any fighter jets are still left let alone operational in Iran at this point!

Near useless Mr. Ali Baba. AFAIK Mig29Ub doesn't have radar, so any potential target must be adquired by old IRST aboard or by central/regional control systems... Even Kowsars have radars...

 

[Ali_Baba]

Near useless Mr. Ali Baba. AFAIK Mig29Ub doesn't have radar, so any potential target must be adquired by old IRST aboard or by central/regional control systems... Even Kowsars have radars...

Agree - they are useless, I am very surprised they are not in the after life, that is all. "Some" Tomcats have also survived it seems as well.

 

[Michael]

My point It is that being China so advanced in GMTI, just without moving any AEW aircrafts inside Iranian airspace, could just send information over the Horizon about incoming aerial treats to Irán. And this is something that probably have been done in the past war...

First, a clarification: to date, there is no evidence to suggest that China provided military satellite intelligence support to Iran during a conflict between Iran and the U.S./Israel. ------ The only information we can confirm is that, during such a conflict, Chinese commercial satellite operators and private satellite intelligence firms (operating along the lines of OSINT—open-source intelligence) publicly released certain satellite imagery and analytical data. This information was made available to the public.

Shifting the air moving-target-indicator (AMTI) and ground moving-target-indicator (GMTI) missions to space ......

Constrained by the laws of physics and the limits of current technological capabilities, these technologies are presently subject to significant restrictions. In China today, they serve merely as auxiliary tools for early warning and intelligence gathering; It is far from being able to replace AEWACS.

This has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.
1. These technologies are far too removed from the current reality in Iran.
2. China itself is still in the exploratory phase regarding these cutting-edge technologies and will not share them with any partner.

I suggest we bring this sub-discussion to an end.