I am not sure if they deliberately FALSE INFORMATION, or may be intentional MISINFORMATION for an intelligence agenda, or what?
But, they are so full of errors, you can only laugh.
I use to read them for about 10 years, but that was a long time ago. No more interest in COMIC BOOKS.
It seems we do have the same experience about western media, like Janes. The best way to realize what Janes -or any other western media- when they talked about Syria. Suddenly their mask fell.
- Bachar Assad is the "awful dictator", that slaughters his people.
- Ghadaffi is an "awful dictator" too.
- Palestinians, or Lebanese when they try to resist or defend themselves, they are all "terrorist groups"
- Russian, Chinese armies lagged behind the west
- FC-31 is a copycat of F-35, J-20 is a copycat of F-22, J-10 is a copycat of Israeli Lavy
- Russian submarines are all copycat of western hardware
- The "awful, and crazy dictator " of North Korea that threatens world peace
etc...
Let's back to Iran, and what
@Muhammed45 said.
At this stage, no one can really answer your question, what is the real state of Iranian EW. The fact that Iranian air defense downed few US state-of-the-art drones does prove a real capacity. Moreover, last year when Iran striked back at the murder of Gen Soleymanieh, without any US reaction, does prove that the US fears Iran.
Immediately after the Iranian attacks, the US sent several dozens of F-35, F-22, EA-18 Growler, F-15C etc...However Iranian detected them immediately, and Iranian air defense could down too many US aircraft. Trump ordered to cancel the reprisals.
If Iranians downed several F-22, with F-35, F-15, it would be a terrible humiliation for the US, even though US Air Force, US Navy would succeed by destroying some Iranian targets. If US losses were too heavy, I think the US won't hesitate one moment to threaten Iran with nuclear weapons, US leaders are too cowardly to do this. If the conflict reaches this dangerous step, and it will be, Iranians won't have thousands of choices, they will threaten the US with nuclear weapons too.
But if this step is reached, it does prove that the US cannot afford a war with Iran-as was the case in Korea 1950, Vietnam war, and Egypt in 1973-, thus their system will immediately collapse. Such a heavy price that the US cannot afford it.
Anyway, this situation proves that Iranian air defense and Iranian electronic warfare seem to be very effective, at least to deter the US to do what they want.
Do not forget that if US leaders decided to give up the F-35, and to dismantle the F-22 fleet at the end of this decade because of what's happened above the middle east skies, in Syria, and above the Persian gulf's skies.
