LegionnairE
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If a military does not exploit its enemy's weaknesses, flaws, ignorance, and incompetence, that military does not deserve to exist.
WTF do you think we have been doing all this time? That we been flying just to burn JP4? Just so our airmen can keep their flight pay and take airborne selfies? You puff yourself up by mocking US because we found some gaps and weaknesses in your radar coverage. How TF do you think we gained control of Iraqi airspace in just a few nights? Desert Storm showed that against US airpower, any gap and/or weakness is lethal.
Task Force Normandy Fired the Opening Shots of Desert Storm | Defense Media Network
A history of Task Force Normandy which fired the opening shots of Operation Desert Storm.www.defensemedianetwork.com
The target was a pair of Iraqi air defense radar installations. On the first night of a conflict, destroying these stations would open a path to Baghdad for warplanes of the coalition arrayed against Saddam Hussein.Destroying the radars would open a pathway for the bombers to proceed.After months of training, on Jan. 14, 1991, Cody’s force positioned itself under radio silence at Al Jouf, near Saudi Arabia’s border with Iraq.
Note the highlighted -- MONTHS OF TRAINING. We analyzed Iraq's air defense system, everything from physical layout to EM signatures, and found some weaknesses. Then we made one of them the focus of MONTHS OF TRAINING to open that weakness. You are looking at those US Army helo pilots flying at least once a day for a few hrs, then debrief for a few more hrs, put up various defeating scenarios for the attacking force, then repeat the pattern for MONTHS.
#DesertStorm30 – Electric Avenue: Electronic Warfare and the battle against Iraq’s air defences during Operation Desert Storm
By Dr Thomas Withington In January 1991, a US-led coalition launched Operation DESERT STORM to evict Iraq from Kuwait, which the former had invaded six months earlier. DESERT STORM was a combined o…balloonstodrones.com
...the collection of ELINT allowed the coalition to determine which radars were used by Iraq’s IADS/GBAD and where they were located. This allowed potential gaps or more weakly defended areas in Iraqi air defence coverage to be identified. Second, regular ELINT collection allowed SIGINT experts to determine the pattern of electromagnetic life. This would have helped answer pertinent questions about whether Iraqi SA-2 batteries switched their radars off every evening or every weekend. By identifying geographical or temporal gaps in radar coverage, coalition planners could take advantage of weak coverage.
I hope the Iranian military leadership is filled with people like you. In fact, I hope all the world's militaries are filled with people like you no matter how many Desert Storms they saw. Unbelievable is an understatement.
I think if you start training now and come back 2 months later, Iran will have a different air defense network, it's constantly changing and they are constantly learning
that being said, it's far from the best air defense in the world and more importantly, no real air force to fill the gaps.