Israeli Nuke Strike On Iran Averted ?

[Hunter368]

my opinion is that Syria may get a taste before Persia does ... 2 ¢

Syria is being good right now....remaining quite and letting Iran take all the heat and risk.

 

[Matt308]

How about an Israeli in a coventional strike against Iran?

What is their "Wild Weasel" aircraft? Do they have their own version of the HARM missle?

F-16s with AGM-78 Anti-Radiation Missile...me thinks.

 

[comiso90]

F-16s with AGM-78 Anti-Radiation Missile...me thinks.

I was thinking they may still use F-4's for wild weasel... it's certainly fast enough. Why not save the F-16, KFIR and F-15 for the actual strike and air superiority?

 

[Matt308]

I think that they got rid of them because of heavy maintenance concerns. I'll check and post what is the AvWeek. Hold on...

 

[comiso90]

Cool... Thanks

I like the image of an F-4 barreling in, belching smoke and "lighting up" a SAM site... the aircraft fits the image nicely...
Brute Force to gouge out the eyes.

 

[Matt308]

Yep. Right out of the AvWeek Aviation Sourcebook 2007. Isreal no longer uses F-4s (at least operationally). I would have thought that Isreal would have had AGM-88 HARMs, but I can't find a reference for them.

 

[comiso90]

A world without F4's?....I'm getting old.

That must mean they have a pretty fat inventory of capabile aircraft.

I hate to see a dogfighter or strike aircraft used as a platform for a anti-radiation missle.

Bring back the F-105!

 

[Matt308]

I won't type in their full inventory, but here are tactical aircraft of merit...

F-15A (20)
F-15B (6)
F-15C (17)
F-15D (9)
F-15I (25)

F-16A (78 ) Thats an eight by the way.
F-16B (17)
F-16C (78 )
F-16D (49)
F-16I (21)

As you can imagine, they are likely using the F-16D two seater for the SEAD role. With some F-15I and F-16I special operations capable.

 

[comiso90]

They use exclusivly American now?

 

[Matt308]

With the exception of ...

Dornier Do 28 (12)
Aerospatiale SA365 (2)
IAI Westwind 1124N (3)

Yep.

 

[comiso90]

With the exception of ...

Dornier Do 28 (12)

As an israeli,
I'd be a touch nervious about flying that for the first time fresh from the factory

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Matt I edited your post to get rid of the faces...

 

[Matt308]

Thanks, FBJ.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

A world without F4's?....I'm getting old.

That must mean they have a pretty fat inventory of capabile aircraft.

I hate to see a dogfighter or strike aircraft used as a platform for a anti-radiation missle.

Bring back the F-105!

Germany still uses the F-4 for Recon purposes. I had one fly over my helicopter on one of my last flights.

 

[Matt308]

If I'm not mistaken, the Luftwaffe decomissioned the F-4 in 2005.

 

[syscom3]

I'd laugh if the Iranians launched a nuke at Israel and it landed in the Gaza strip on top of the Hamas HQ.

 

[Matt308]

Oh sweet irony. That would be funny.

 

[Gnomey]

Yeah The other possibility is it hits Lebanon and Hezbollah instead...

 

[Matt308]

Oh, and Adler, my apologies. Germany is still using about 55 F-4s according the my sourcebook.

 

[Civettone]

What about Japan and Iran? Last thing I heard they still had Phantoms...

Matt, are you also going to apologize to me?
Kris