from military point of view, Israel totally lost 2006 war. their whole airforce couldn't achieve nothing, while their targets were within a 70km area and with no air defense system.
(also I welcome any smart ar$e who wanna claim Israel didn't have a potent ground forces and for this reason their air force achieved nothing, the excuse which people use for Saudi's failure in Yemen.)
Yes, comparing Hezbollah with Iran is bizarre, cause unlike Hezbollah we do have a potent air defense system, unlike them we have deep strike capability which will raze all U.S bases and navy in middle east in minutes, unlike them we have a wide country with enough train to hide all of our assets in there, etc.
Israeli Air Force couldn't achieve anything of worth because an Air Force by it's self simply can't win a gorilla warfare on the ground.
Hezbullah had tunnels all across southern Lebanon and a few guys would pop out tunnels engage Israeli Armored battalions and hid and they were so proficient at it that the Israelis though they were getting hit by ghosts! And Israeli Air Force couldn't do much about it so they just bombed random houses!
So yea Israeli's lost and ran with their tails between their legs!!!!!!!!!!
But their failure isn't proof that Air Power is useless today! Rather its just prof that you can't win a gorilla warfare on the ground with fighter jets alone!
Air Forces by the most part Defends Air Space by backing up it's SAM's or attack airspaces to achieve Air Superiority to conduct heavy strikes on Air Defense, infrastructure, financial assets, Military Bases, main weapons depots, weapons factories, Fortified bunkers, military command, long range communications, Naval capabilities, fuel depots, armored Battalions....
Most of which Hezbollah didn't have and most of which Saudi's destroyed in Yemen!!!!!!!
And the nonsense you keep on repeating means we don't need an Air Force because we should be OK with our country going into famine if attacked like Yemen simply because an Air Force by it's self simply can't win a gorilla warfare on the ground!!!!!!
Air Defense Systems without an Air Force to back them up can be overwhelmed, jammed or hit by a small teams of covert special forces on the ground.
And for Iranian missile forces to be able to achieve the number of payloads an Air Force capable of flying and arming 20 fighters (Equal too or better than an F-15E) a day over the span of a year would require a missile force Armed with 20,000 to 60,000 +250km missiles!
So NO Iran can't simply make up for a lack of Air Power with it's Missiles alone!!!!!!!! And Iran DOES NOT need a large Air Force just a smart one!!!!!
We need a single high powered Iranian built platform that can be configured for intercept and strike!!! Where the parts are Iranian and we can Arm and keep a good portion in the Air every day because the parts and weapons are produced in Iran!
And using the same engine we can build a handful of 4 engine supersonic bombers and backed by a handful of support aircraft (AWACS, UAV command and control, Air Refueling,...) to be built over a span of 10 years
Which means Iran CAN NOT go around buying aircraft because it would be 1980 again and we would have a bunch of nice Aircraft that we couldn't arm or maintain and didn't matter how nice our Air Force was because we simply couldn't get our moneys worth from them!
Which means we need Military commanders WHO DON'T go to Air Force and aerospace events and talk about how useless Air Force has become based on absurd comparisons like the 2006 war who takes the life out of a room of people who came there to get projects approved! That is boarding on treason buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!