Iranian Air Force (IRIAF/IRGC-ASF) | News and Discussions

[Immortals]

C'mon It has no radar, no IRST, no BVR capability, not supersonic not nothing!!!!. Why IRIAF send them to death???

Probably to shoot down drones.

Better question is why weren’t hundreds of Iranian jets not doing the same thing?

Iran should have sent them all flying low level towards PGCC countries like the pair of SU-22 did and dropping payloads on US targets. If they survived great, If they didn’t, oh well.

It’s an existential war.

 

[Kyussis]

C'mon It has no radar, no IRST, no BVR capability, not supersonic not nothing!!!!. Why IRIAF send them to death???

They proved useful against drones during the 12 day war.

 

[Immortals]

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[Ali_Baba]

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Lack of SHORAD + CIWS type defence for the airbase...

 

[Immortals]

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[Wudangmaster2]

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What a goddamned f#$%ing travesty; the whole matter has me wanting to say so much... Anyway I have a lot going on personally and keeping up with the war takes all my non work time now these days to where i look and feel like goh.

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Iran does not seek air superiority, just the ability to intercept / deter invading tactical air missions in coordination with ground based air defence, so a massive air superiority fleet is not required under Iran's military doctrine

Pakistan should help Iran. The Saudi ulema too are convinced that Iran should be helped.

 

[Fatman17]

Why Didn’t Iran’s Air Force Put Up a Fight Against the United States?

Iran’s air force was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1979, and nothing about it has changed since then. That’s a big problem for Tehran.

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Where is the Iranian airforce

 

[VCheng]

Why Didn’t Iran’s Air Force Put Up a Fight Against the United States?

Iran’s air force was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1979, and nothing about it has changed since then. That’s a big problem for Tehran.

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Where is the Iranian airforce

The Iranian Air Force is now at the "If it flies, it dies" stage.

 

[Immortals]

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Likely inoperable given the others had left.

 

[SABRE]

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YAK-130 shot down

For Iran, not modernising the air force was criminal.

 

[Kyussis]

For Iran, not modernising the air force was criminal.

Outside of maybe China and Russia, which Country can you name that can go toe to toe with the USAF and IAF combined?

 

[ToddE]

LOL @ people here coming and talking about "Air Force" against US/NATO+Israelis. You can park 300 x SU-35S + 12 AWACS against them, they will strategically bombard your bases to rubble from distance, would not stop until force is done and dusted. There goes the morale of the rest of the forces along with ~30-40 Billion USD spent on Airforce.

That if ... a Big IF ... they allow you to have critical spares, armaments before the war even if they come from Russia, China ... I am also being flexible in considering that such a country going against them would not be economically choked by them prior to everything.

 

[MS Sandhu]

Outside of maybe China and Russia, which Country can you name that can go toe to toe with the USAF and IAF combined?

Please remember that US/Isr heavily rely on refuelers,Air borne front end aircrafts for intelligence gathering like P8 Poseidon,MQ9, etc, naval destroyer warships for opening strikes to soft the targets.

These are big @ss targets and any military with sizeable submarine force (like India, Pakistan , etc) , 4.5th Gen Air borne Fighter Aircrafts (again like South Asia) and decent SAM network (like that of India) should be able to give a bloody nose to US/Isr Air Forces.

America is fighting an easy war with Iran because Iran has literally One dimensional military force
Or i should say it has no military force just a missile force.


Imagine a war with a country having a great submarine force , 4.5th Gen Air Force with highly mobile air borne surveillance assets, Integrated Air Defences on ground, ballistic & cruise missile fire power, and at the back of it, the nukes for doomsday.

Multiple nations have these assets well in place.US is not fighting with Iran.Its just a target practice for them.

 

[VCheng]

America is fighting an easy war with Iran because Iran has literally One dimensional military force
Or i should say it has no military force just a missile force.

Easy war? Iran's missile force has held off the US forces for 10 days, and continues to attack many targets on a daily basis, and has caused an economic shock heard around the world.

Pretty effective, I would say. I do not think any other nation has done more with less.