Fwd from @. Ayatollah's Hawks
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Ayatollah's Hawks
Iranian aviation is alive. For now
The fact that even after Khamenei's death on the first day of the war, the Persians preserved their military command system and the ability to resist is also evidenced by Iranian aircraft flights in the sky over Tehran.
The frame captured a MiG-29 fighter (from among the former Iraqi ones that flew over during Saddam's time), as well as the training-combat Yak-130,delivered in 2023. Moreover, during last year's war, Iran essentially did not deploy aviation at all.
A logical question may arise: how did they manage to preserve the aircraft at all, when American UAVs fly freely over the western part of the country and destroy everything in sight?
On one hand, the aircraft can operate from an underground air base, footage of which appeared a couple of years ago. Back then F-4 Phantoms were spotted there, so a similarly-sized MiG-29 and especially a Yak-130 could fit there just fine.
On the other hand, Iranian aircraft could operate from airfields closer to the northwest of the country: at the moment this is the most remote point from the US and Israel, and their strike UAVs, if they can reach there at all, clearly do so with difficulty.
️What gives the Iranians the ability to deploy aviation? At minimum, the theoretical ability to shoot down MQ-9s with air-to-air missiles and complicate ground operations. The targets are large and not the fastest, so even old MiG-29s can put up a fight against them.
But how many days Iranian aviation will last — that's a very good question. Especially given that we're only on the third day of the war, and Persian losses are already enormous.
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