Originally posted by sharmaji
Well lets just assume, so that we can move on a bit here, that somehow the Israelis are able to make their way towards Iran, let us look at the Iranian EW capablilities, its fighters and missiles and training, that should be more interesting that who should have nukes or not and who supports Israel.

Let us not forget that a couple of months ago, Israeli fighters overflew Damascus and blew up a “terrorist camp”, so much for Syrian Air Defence and EW, how would Iran fare?

Well They are making some kind of AWACS from An-140 type aircraft. Around 24 F-14 are operational while some reports put it around 50. Su-24 is their main strike figher. About 28 functional Mig 29 not upto SMT standard. One IL-76 AWACS with Tiger type radar on it. other aircrafts are F-4, F-5, Mirage F-1EQs etc. Country is big so alot of places to hide things. But i don’t think this plant is the place to make nuclear weopons. There are hundred of Iran scientist taking eduction in this field from Russian institues. So if these comeback they will have a some kind of weopon in the near future.

That Iranian think seems to me correct to certain extent. Pak and Iran were great allies in 1980s when pak helped them in war against iraq but relations have gone down since 1990s due to afgahan issue.

Pak has all weather road to China so sending around the globe C-130 to NK for some missle part is not that plausible. It can be easily done through road network. Any visit to NK by any foreign aircraft seems suspicious that may be the reason.

Originally posted by SOC
Yes they do, there’s at least one battery in country as of right now. Check here for more info: http://www.acig.org

I have read in http://www.pravda.ru that Russia offered complete system for $4.4B to protect this plant but still not taken up. one battery may not have the effect on major airstrike .

IRAN has i think upgraded thier Su-24MK and fitted with C-802K type missle.

Originally posted by Srbin
Yes Azerbaijan would be be nice because all you have to do is fly down the Caspian Sea and you’re over Iran, but would Azerbaijan realllly do it? Arent they a muslim country too? I doubt any Muslim country would really support a Jewish country attacking another Muslim Country, with the exception of Turks but they prolly wouldnt do it either.

Yes Subs would seem the best option but does Israel really have the capability to fire ballistic missiles from subs?

Iran has much better relation with Russia and Armenia and inside Azerbaijan didnot like that but is forced to do so due to opposing forces.

Originally posted by Distiller
Preps for an attack from NAVSUPPFACDG could go unnoticed, done mostly by night etc. And if Bushehr is the primary target the egress could be made west via Iraq and Jordan, no point returning to Diego and politically less captious since they could say they ingress was made the same way and hide US involvement. But I doubt that only one site would be attacked.

I’m very aware that such an action could end in major theatre conflict. I can’t look inside Sharon’s head, but I wouldn’t bet that Israel wouldn’t use nuclear warheads in a pre-emptive nuclear strike. And I can’t second other notions here, that Isreal would only use their nuclear warheads as deterrence. Contrary I can’t imagine a country more likely to do a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

But how realistic is an Israeli action against Iran altogether?

@ 177: How should they get their jets there unnoticed? Why should Turkey or Russia let that stunt be pulled? Azerbaijan is as far away from Bushehr as Tel Aviv. Egress very difficult.

Sign treaty with Azerbaijan and announce large scale military exercises and at the end do the strike.

Its easy . Rent a Base from Azerbaijan and flew through Caspian sea.