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IAF vs. Arab air forces

There is a lot of public pressure on various arab nations to enter in a war with Israel. The people of Egypt are shouting at the military which has been having a lot of new toys over the past few years while the economy is still doing bad, and there is considerable pressure on Mubarak to provide assistantace to the palestinians. If Egypt enters in war with the Israeli’s i am sure Syria will lend support and Iraq will be more then happy to support the war as it would mean that the arab nations would be more willing to support Saddaam, who would love to send its army through Syria. Also i am sure RSAF and IRIAF would definately provide support to the palestines as well.
So was hoping to do a analysis on the air power and the chances of victory in the area.
Egypt has a lot of F-16s(armed with AMRAAM) and AEW it also has Ml Abrams tanks and harpoon armed ships, Syria is all old Migs so not much there, and Iraq has no real air force but does still have a large standing army and well trained or not a soilder with a gun is still a threat. The RSAF has both the F-15 and Tornado both armed with BVRAAM’s and HARM missiles, AWACS M1 Abrams and MLRS and the IRIAF has mig-29’s Su-24 and F-7, plus a large standing army.

I know that the IAF and the Israeli army has superior training then all the other arab nations in the region and also will have the backing of the US and Turkey(maybe) But it still is out numbered, in both the air and land. They did have a advantage in the Yom Kippur war and the Six Day war, the majority of the enemy’s equipment was Russian and not properly maintained, and also the enemy was not properly trained but all of that has changed in some cases(Egypt and Saudi Arabia). I am sure the Israeli’s will be able to pull of a victory but its going to get a hell of a bloody noise and the arab forces are probably going to be destroyed in a pretty bad shape and will need a few years to rebuild and a lot of money.

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