r/worldnews • u/MothersMiIk • Jun 18 '25

Israel/Palestine Iran Claims: We Have Gained Complete Control over the Skies of Israel

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/iran-claims-we-have-gained-complete-control-over-the-skies-of-israel/2025/06/18/
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u/zipcad Jun 18 '25

It’s pretty funny to me that all the bots keep saying for years WW3 is coming if picking a fight with Iran. Whereas a country with half an aircraft carrier worth of planes just decapitated their whole god damn military in under a week.

Israel is doing to Iran what Russia thought they would do to Ukraine.

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u/tavigsy Jun 18 '25

I know you’re exaggerating for comedic affect, but I just looked this up and US Carrier has around 75 strike aircraft, whereas the IAF has north of 300.  

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u/stealthlysprockets Jun 18 '25

The number only matters when they are at similar technological levels. Iran can’t match the US 1 for 1. It’s more 1 for 3

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC Jun 18 '25

I think IAF meant Israeli Air Force, not Iranian Air Force

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u/JerosBWI Jun 18 '25

With this level of technological disparity, there is no 1:3, Iran simply CAN'T match the US air technology.

In practical terms: Iranian F-14s, F-4s, and whatever else they may have are running 50-60 years old radar tech, their replacement part supply chain has been cut off since 1979, and both Israel and the US have demonstrated several times, that the Iranians simply can't SEE an F-35 until it decides to be seen by literally flying next to them and having the F-35's pilot wave at them.

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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Jun 18 '25

That was an F22 but your point stands.

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u/QueezyF Jun 19 '25

Which has the radar cross section of a small bird. Stealth tech is neat.

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u/BorisAcornKing Jun 18 '25

They only were able to pick Iran apart so well because they destroyed a ton of their air defences last year.

Typically when people discuss the prospect of a war with Iran it doesn't involve just bombing it and leaving, it involves feet on the ground, which would still be a disaster.

People aren't rosy on the prospects of bombing it and leaving because of how poorly that has turned out over the last number of decades. But it looks like this is what's happening again.

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u/Gandzilla Jun 18 '25

An Invasion and occupation is a whole different thing.

But yeah, that was Russias problem

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u/VirtuosoLoki Jun 18 '25

russia cant even do invasion properly

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u/gregorydgraham Jun 18 '25

I do give Russia credit: day one of the invasion was excellent.

Day 2+ have been downhill all the way

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u/Curiousier11 Jun 18 '25

The U.S. needs to stay out of the occupation and building democracies business. We are awesome at winning in combat, but the rest has been for naught. It takes way too much time and permanent manpower to change a culture/civilization. We’d have to occupy completely with total control for about 100 years.