drmeson
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You don't see a role for it acting in the Syrian theater of war? Just curious - an aircraft like that could help assert dominance in the north and patrol airspace to deter enemy airstrikes, at the very least.
If you park 2 squadrons of 24 x SU-35S in Syria, IAF will try its best to destroy them on ground. They have the means to do so and they wont let Syria develop any useful IADS either. Syria does not have the air power or missile strike capability to deal with Israel for now. The country came out of an elongated civil war and it can not open another theatre with a globally supported enemy that receives Multibillions of USD in defence aid and tech. Only way to strengthen Syria is to do the following:
- Interoperatbility with Hezbollah
- IADS of layers of long range Search/Track radars datalinked with ambush SHORADS, HIMADS, Interceptor aircraft (with long range BVR) pretty much like what Iran is developing at home.
- Missile power to attack airbases of Israel from where these jets fly
- $$$
- Political support of powers to keep Turkey out of the Northern, Western borders.
Syria has none of the above for now.
Btw, Israeli Airstrikes in Syria happen but magnitude of them are mostly just Jew cooked stories who are 10/10 times reported by their own news channels where they make mathematically atrocious claims like 50 died, airbases destroyed etc. Misinformation is a weapon in war that they very profoundly use.
You must have subsonic Advanced trainer for pilot training, Yasin or Something based on F 5 ... Advanced training Jet also can fill CAS role...so it is dual purpose.
Yasin is most likely an ego project of some team in HESA and IRIAF who pushed for funds and we have this AT flying now. Like wasting buttload of money on MirageF1, F-7N, this project has no worth except that probably the pilots can be trained on 1 x squadron of Yasin with same IEI avionics, radar package that Kowsar-I, Upgraded F-4E/D have. Same can be done with Kowsar or Saeghe-I/II Trainer version.
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