And LORA can also use TV guidance so the operator can drop it in front of shelter and blast will immobilize the aircraft. Don’t even need to completely destroy.
-Raad-500/Dezful can do the same with thermobaric munition warhead at Ramat David Airfield (from where they attack mostly)? They are deadly accurate, quasi-depressed trajectory missiles that can't be intercepted because of separating GRV. Kheibar Shikan uses a glide trajectory and comes at you at ~hypersonic speed. IRGC can easily take out Ramat David.
You are counting Israeli weaponry and discounting the Iranian side. What kind of logic is that?
Hundreds (if not thousands) of air strikes on Iranian sites in syria including drone base at T4 that lead to deaths of IRGC and Iran never struck a single Israeli airbase in return. So yes Iran has assets to strike Israeli bases, but political reality is different story.
Most of these airstrikes are wartime propoganda stories by Haaretz/Jpost/Jerusalem/Times of Israel and nothing else. I am not saying real strikes do not happen, they do and cause damage as well. But the damage claims and stories of how 500 men die every night in Syria because of the mighty IAF are nothing but wartime propoganda by the world's most famous ethnicity for lying and deception. I did some research on these claims. Literally, not a single non-israeli source gives the story, or even if they do the origin of the story, the damage etc comes from Tel-Aviv and nowhere else. Ask yourself this, if there have been some 300 strikes as Tel Aviv claims in which S-300, S-200, Tor, SyAAF assets, and ammunition depots, etc. are all gone, why have not FSA+ISIS just run over Assad's destroyed forces because of these strikes? Instead what we are seeing is that Assad is getting more and more entrenched in Syria with zero resistance now, and Hezbollah is receiving arms from Iran in Lebanon. Who is lying here?
There you go, find me a single non-Israeli source for these damages. They come at night, drop a bomb here or there according to them, and then within an hour they give the details of how many missile sites, airbases, and men (their names too lol) have died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict_during_the_Syrian_civil_war
It is called WAR TIME PROPOGANDA! everyone does it, Israel is no exception. They want to maintain the perception of dominance in the Levant. Useful strategy for inner politics but even according to their own former authority figures these stories are doing nothing. I can post an article here if anyone wants. One of them even accused Netanyahu's government of using these victory lies for political gains within Israel before the elections, and how real action against the Iranian alliance would literally mean Hezbollah mauling IDF again like in 2006 only they are more battle-hardened and 10 x more equipped now.
Militaries do not respond to propoganda easily. Even if one side claims that they have exploded a nuclear device over another country in which 50000 people died, the target of the propoganda military won't respond to it unless they have been "actually" challenged. Iran's goal is the entrenchment of Assad in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza. IRGC planners do not give two shits about Jpost's fake stories as long as their goals are not challenged which is actually happening. When they get challenged we know what Iran does to its enemy. It's a country that has fired more Ballistic missiles on foreign soil in the last 2 decades than anyone else including at the Bases of the world's top superpower. It's a country that is fighting proxy wars in 4-5 countries without losing ground in a single theatre. Do you think they will be scared of 2 x F-16?
All during these very real "strikes", Iran has done the following on its foreign allied soil in the last 10 years
- Made bases in Syria
- Removed any resistance against Assad
- Armed Hezbollah with accurate BM/CM/AShCM/UCAVS. The same force that almost took the war against IDF in 2006.
- Attacked Saudis/UAE from Yemen
Who is lying here?
You aren’t hiding all 90 aircraft + 20 drone in sheltered bases. That would be a massive airbase, most airbases don’t have nearly that many sheltered bunkers (12-36).
Most are parked in open with some distance put in between them.
Large Military Installation : 2 x TABs (All aircrafts + UCAVS) + Airdefence/Electronic warfare compound for GWACS + 1 x Missile base
Large military bases/installations like Incirlik have ~60 x Hardened shelters for aircraft and we know Iran's new strategy for underground bases. When there is a threat, there is a solution. If they make such a base they won't keep the aircraft in open for them to be targeted.
SyAAF is ancient with soviet era planes that lack basic armaments. They never even received the Yak-130’s they ordered from Russia. (Russian unreliability)
SyAAF just doesn’t have the capacity to fight F-16’s of Israeli airforce. And it’s air defense has fired many times on jets, but when S-200 and Buk-M1 are your main long range air defenses than you aren’t gonna do much. Syrian S-300 is operated under Russian leadership and they won’t allow firing on Israeli planes.
SyAAF has 30 x MIG-29SMT strong fleet that is more than capable of engaging any F-16 or F-15 at BVR/WVR domains. These aircraft were not even used for anything in the war.
Very long shot but in the future Iran should provide SyAAF with 50-60 x Kowsar-I/II + 15 x KAMAN-22 ELINT to replace their aging good-for-nothing fleet of MIG-21/23. A SyAAF with MIG-29M+ Kowsar-I/II + ELINT will mean a threatening air domain for intruders in which some 100 fighters can engage the enemy in BVR ranges and e-warfare while cant be defeated easily in WVR ranges. Compared to rust tubes like MIG-21/23 without anything in them, that will be a blessing.
