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Fly Navy
Mar 3 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
There are a few reasons why the air warfare portion of the Iran war is executing so cleanly, and I thought maybe I can shed light on some of them.
1) The current USAF and USN Airwing are almost custom-made to destroy the systems in the Iranian IADS.
Despite what you've been told, we don't buy equipment to "fight the last war", we buy equipment to fight our projections of the *next* one. And in 90-2008, that was RUS / Iran