Pakistan First
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IRBMs is a very bad strategy for target that far. Each IRBM costs millions of dollars. Also, We got more than twice the distance between us and Israel Versus the distance between Iran and Israel. So using BMs is totally stupid for conventional hits at that large distance. Its like wasting a million dollar equipment and that too can be intercepted. You need to understand what an IRBM is. Its a 20 meters high (like 4 to 5 storey high building). Its almost a space rocket. Why you make it so big? Because it needs to contain a lot of fuel. 95% of the weight is only fuel that gets burned bringing the missile outside the atmosphere. All this just to deliver a single warhead to a target where enemy is already ready to intercept it. As IRBM is the first thing that gets detected due to massive altitude it attains. Its plain stupidity to do it for conventional targets. Iran couldn't use the airforce as it didn't had one.
Iranian attacks may be okay against Bahrain and Kuwait, but those have not achieved any major success over Israel. Israeli airbases are fully functional, their leadership not harmed, nuclear sites not harmed. Nothing major happened. Its only social media hu ha that Iran did something. It didn't.
To do sustained strikes over time you need modern airforce. PAF is undoubtedly solid. Supposedly if we receive J-35 then it would make it really lethal. Air refueling over Iran and dropping stand off weapons from the edge of Iraq is our best bet in any military conflict with Israel.
