US deploys F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar amid Iran tensions.

[K Shehzad]

Washington (AFP): The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran.

US deploys F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar amid Iran tensions

Washington (AFP): The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran.

The Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have been deployed "to defend American forces and interests," the US Air Forces Central Military Command said in a statement that did not specify how many of the hi-tech planes had been sent.

A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Tehran and Washington have been locked in an escalating standoff since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from a multi-party 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic republic.

Tensions spiked last week when Iran shot down a US drone over sensitive Gulf waters following a series of tanker attacks that Washington blamed on Tehran, which has denied involvement.

Since then the arch-foes have been locked in a war of words, which escalated this week when Trump announced new sanctions against Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Iran has threatened to abandon some of its commitments under the nuclear deal unless the remaining partners -- Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia -- help it circumvent US sanctions and especially sell its oil.

In May, the US Air Force deployed several nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Gulf in response to what the Defense Department described as a possible plan by Iran to attack American forces in the region, as well as an aircraft carrier task force.

 

[khansaheeb]

Seems like f22 are going to cover to the nuclear capable B52s in the impending attck.

 

[skyshadow]

Seems like f22 are going to cover to the nuclear capable B52s in the impending attck.

how when they are in range of our radars they loss the element of surprise

 

[khansaheeb]

how when they are in range of our radars they loss the element of surprise

F22 are the top aircraft of USAF inventory so it seems they mean business.

 

[skyshadow]

F22 are the top aircraft of USAF inventory so it seems they mean business.

yes they are, but we warned F22s already multiple times there is documents of it which means our radars already detect them its going to be risky for them and with Sayyad 4 AD missile with speed of at least mach 10 and over 100,000 ft altitude range they cant escape from it sooo im not sure if US going to do it.

 

[JohnWick]

They released the krakens ......

 

[Goku]

I thought Qatar was an ally of the Iranians? so if the US uses Qatar to bomb Iran , will the Iranians retaliate only on Qatar or even saudis and UAEs?

 

[skyshadow]

I thought Qatar was an ally of the Iranians? so if the US uses Qatar to bomb Iran , will the Iranians retaliate only on Qatar or even saudis and UAEs?

Qatar would not let US use its land or space to attack Iran all of this is just rumors in reality no one would let US to use its space to attack us

 

[LeGenD]

yes they are, but we warned F22s already multiple times there is documents of it which means our radars already detect them its going to be risky for them and with Sayyad 4 AD missile with speed of at least mach 10 and over 100,000 ft altitude range they cant escape from it sooo im not sure if US going to do it.

The only incident I recall is of an F-22A Raptor which surprised two Iranian F4 near Iranian coasts back in 2013, and Iranian coastal defenses completely failed to pick it. The F4 had to abort their mission to shoot down an MQ-1 Predator UAV.

Laws of physics do not bend for Iran actually. Unless an F-22A is operating with 'radar reflectors', no Iranian radar system will notice it from multiple KM away, let alone produce a weapons-grade lock on it in the process.

And also keep in mind that B-52H and F-22A are very well equipped in EW department as well.

Information for reference: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/so-is-america-a-liar-or-a-pussy.624558/page-2#post-11572064

 

[skyshadow]

The only incident I recall is of an F-22A Raptor which surprised two Iranian F4 near Iranian coasts back in 2013, and Iranian coastal defenses completely failed to pick it. The F4 had to abort their mission to shoot down an MQ-1 Predator UAV.

Laws of physics do not bend for Iran actually. Unless an F-22A is operating with 'radar reflectors', no Iranian radar system will notice it from multiple KM away, let alone produce a weapons-grade lock on it in the process.

And also keep in mind that B-52H and F-22A are very well equipped in EW department as well.

Information for reference: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/so-is-america-a-liar-or-a-pussy.624558/page-2#post-11572064

of course Laws of physics do not bend for Iran and yes they have to be in range of radars like Meraj_4 and its missiles to lock on target and to lock the missile on them but before that there location will be revealed by OTH radars then there location will be sent to lets say a 3th Khordad or 15th Khordad or Talash 2 and Talash 3 or S300 or Bavar 373 then one of then will go there and starts searching for targets and if they fined them you know the rest. so again they will be seen by OTH radars first if not by other radars. but is there any incident by which a fighter jet jammed up a Air defense missile as big as Sayyad 2 or 3 or 4 ??? and i know you heard about MQ_4 with all of its skin and EW technologies.

 

[aman_rai]

Over kill

 

[LeGenD]

of course Laws of physics do not bend for Iran and yes they have to be in range of radars like Meraj_4 and its missiles to lock on target and to lock the missile on them but before that there location will be revealed by OTH radars then there location will be sent to lets say a 3th Khordad or 15th Khordad or Talash 2 and Talash 3 or S300 or Bavar 373 then one of then will go there and starts searching for targets and if they fined them you know the rest. so again they will be seen by OTH radars first if not by other radars. but is there any incident by which a fighter jet jammed up a Air defense missile as big as Sayyad 2 or 3 or 4 ??? and i know you heard about MQ_4 with all of its skin and EW technologies.

Target identification performance significantly vary across known frequency bands.

Notice the variation in wavelengths across all bands? What you see in those figures is reduction in precision from W to VHF (bottom-up).

X-band frequency range offer decent possibilities to detect, identify and distinguish airborne targets with a high degree of clarity from considerable distances. Necessary for providing 'sufficient response time' to detect, identify, track and obtain weapons-grade lock on the target.

For bands below the X-band, components are very expensive for mass production because of the manufacturing tolerances required for short wavelengths, virtually impractical to transform into massive surveillance platforms at present.

Now the above is assuming clean conditions. Radar jamming/spoofing technologies (advanced forms of EW) will make matters much worse. Keep in mind that jamming/spoofing activities are a one-way street (jammer to source) whereas target search and acquisition is two-way street (radar waves must collide with the target and return to source).

F-22A is designed from scratch to deflect, scatter and even absorb radar waves (far more effectively than F-117A ever could), and its EW capabilities are far ahead of Global Hawk HALE platform - not a fair comparison.

OTH radar systems won't help at all. If scores of F-22A are committed to strike at and degrade Iranian OTH radar installations and surface defenses, then Iranian surface defenses will be experiencing a drop in target search and acquisition coverage every passing minute, and all hope will be lost at some point. And I am not even counting B-52H and scores of other penetrative platforms in this equation.

Assad regime imported powerful Chinese solid-state YJ-27 surveillance radar system to bolster its chances in countering Israeli airborne attacks over its interests concerning Iran, and guess what happened?

FYI: https://www.worldtribune.com/china-...sraeli-strike-destroys-air-defenses-in-syria/

Israeli F-35 humbled a heavily defended sector of Syrian regime including Chinese YJ-27 radar system in a complex mission in 2019.

That US invest a great deal on its military arm, is not in vain. And there aren't any affordable counters to it.