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fujiyamasan

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12. What is Iran's Air Force made of anyways?
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:00 AM
18 hrs ago

It’s a weird mix of really old American aircraft like F-14 tomcats, old mirage jets, and some newer Russian made Migs. We have seen how great that has performed in Ukraine.

I’m not too surprised here. The earlier attacks over the last year or two by Israel and the US were precisely aimed at testing their air defenses.

The real issue is asymmetric warfare and the use of cheap Shahed drones. I’m amazed at the posters crowing about the interceptor rates. Sure they work well, but they aren’t infinite in supply and they cost some 10x more than the actual drones.

We’ll be paying for this fucking thing for a long time.

Of anyone supports this, they need to suit up or send their kids over there. And they should be made to pay for this as well.

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Gaza? chicoescuela 21 hrs ago #1
yeah, THAT IS THE EASY PART Skittles 21 hrs ago #2
Got "Peace" in the username! dpibel 20 hrs ago #3
Holy War kwolf68 20 hrs ago #4
gotta love the war pimps who never served Skittles 19 hrs ago #6
US also had air supremacy over Iraq Strelnikov_ 20 hrs ago #5
I think Iran is cooked. Qatar intercept rate is 96%. Similar for other nations. Melon 19 hrs ago #7
Iran has a large contingent of armed manpower...and drones SamuelTheThird 19 hrs ago #8
We'll see what happens in the next days. Melon 18 hrs ago #9
Not just verbal SamuelTheThird 18 hrs ago #11
In the immortal words of Petey Kegsbreath..... Grammy23 18 hrs ago #10
What is Iran's Air Force made of anyways? fujiyamasan 18 hrs ago #12
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