mohsen
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The difference between Iran and Iraq is that today your pilot friends wont even get the chance to take off, we will raze your airbases in the very first hour of war , within minutes, U.S biggest advantage will turn into it's biggest burden.And you would still lose. When I got orders to deploy to Desert Storm, all we knew was that a radar gap would be available for the main air force. How that gap created was -- 'classified'. It was only after the collapse of Iraqi radar net that we in the main air force found out the Army was the cause of the initial gap.
The point here is that we are not as static as you think we are. Iran's air defense is not Iraqi's, we know that. But US airpower today is also not the same as the airpower of Desert Storm. Right now, my (retired) generation would not want to go up against the crew of today. They are more flexible, precise, accurate, skilled, better trained, faster, and all factors combined -- more lethal. Today, the timing of Desert Storm would not happened. They would have planned it differently with the better tools and intelligence gathering methods of today. It would have required less ordnance but still achieved the same results.
How US airpower of today plan for Iran is anybody's guess, but the outcome would be the same as Iraq's of Desert Storm.
An exhausted airforce isn't game changing, though U.S airforce is already exhausted.
On the ground is another story, but it's enough to say Iran's allies (which you call proxy) wont even let you to reach Iranian borders.
Even by moving your whole armed forces from your homeland and the rest of the world, you wont mach the local fire power of Iran, we have estimated your cost as $ 52 trillion and this is a money which you don't have, so your comrades can enjoy their retirement as well!