July 11, 2020
Iran's Air Force Doesn't Stand a Chance Against America
Here's why.
by Mark Episkopos
Key Point: The Iranian Air Force is patently incapable of defending the entirety of Iran’s airspace with conventional means.
The geopolitical struggle between Washington and Tehran is anything but new, stemming back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent overthrow of the US-backed Shah. The past several years have seen Iran and the US locked into a new cycle of escalation, fed by openly belligerent rhetoric and increasingly divergent strategic visions for the Middle-East region.
As the two powers teeter on the edge of open conflict, US media outlets are awash with commentary on the international and political ramifications of war with Iran; rightly so, given what’s at stake. Surprisingly, much less attention has been devoted to the question of what a conventional war with Iran would look like. There are, of course, countless variables at play: who would attack first, what would Russia and China do, would it escalate into a nuclear conflict, and so on.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/irans-air-force-doesnt-stand-chance-against-america-164477
